Reunite your workflows, and your team members, with a tool that manages publication production from start to finish.
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A New Way of Publishing
Are the pains of disconnected systems and team members slowing down your production cycles and creating costly mistakes? Bring together planning, production, proofing, collaboration, approvals and delivery into a cloud-based solution. Virtual Publisher allows publishers to control and manage all aspects of production from an easy-to-use interface, accessible from anywhere in the world.
1. Plan
Create a flat plan from an issue template and begin placing editorial and ad reservations right away. Ads submitted & approved in SendMyAd show up in the publication’s clipboard ready to be placed.
2. Produce
Once planning is completed, the flat plan is promoted to production, and hi-res editorial pages can be uploaded and preflighted to compliance with the publication’s specifications.
3. Approve & Deliver
Management can assign necessary tasks to team members for corrections. Approved ads, editorials and images are merged into final pages and delivered to your printer or outputted to digital editions.
Publication production made simple.
Interactive Preflight Reports
Ensure pages meet criteria.
As materials are uploaded, Virtual Publisher rejects or flags any non-compliant materials. This ensures that the files submitted are ready to be published with no errors.
Photo Corrections & Placement
Incorporate images into your workflow.
Mark up, send for corrections, approve revisions, and place imagery into your editorials with ease. An image’s corrections can be done simultaneously with its placement into an editorial’s layout, allowing different departments to complete their tasks quickly and without delay.
Editorial Manager Plugin
Integrate with InDesign.
The Editorial & Page Manger Plugins allow users to seamlessly transfer photography, text assignments & ad materials from Virtual Publisher directly into InDesign & vice versa. Users are able to upload print-ready files directly from InDesign to Virtual Publisher, saving valuable time & increasing efficiency.
Corrections Workflow
Annotate pages & approve revisions.
Add tasks directly onto your pages or photos and deliver to your corrections staff. Production teams can then compare corrected revisions side-by-side and approve or reject the changes made.
The must-have features to streamline your publication production
Editorial/Ad Metadata Import (CSV)
When importing your publications editorial & ad materials information, Virtual Publisher provides a fast & easy solution to transfer your data directly into the system without wasting time & energy.
Multi-Publication Support
Whether you are working with one title or 50, Virtual Publisher’s organized platform allows teams to easily manage unique specifications across multiple titles within one solution.
US Postal PAGE Certified
This certification eliminates the need to send marked copies of magazines to U.S. Postal Service for review of weight, caliper and total ad percentage. Instead, Virtual Publisher produces reports of the publication once finalized that can be delivered directly to the Postal Service saving time and money.
Signature Management
Virtual Publisher allows teams to analyze, create & dissect book plans on a signature level, with the ability to view each individually, & insert special signatures directly into the plan. This functions allows publishers easily to add, remove or reorder signatures.
Email Notifications
Automated custom email notifications keep your team in sync throughout the entire production process. When milestones occur, Virtual Publisher will immediately send users the information needed to accomplish their goals.
Region & Edition Support
Virtual Publisher allows users to easily manage issue regionalization. Book covers, advertisements & editorials can be targeted to a specific region, maximizing the engagement of your readers based on their location.
Custom Ad Size Definitions
Virtual Publisher is built to work specifically for your publication. When constructing your account, our team will use your publication’s custom ad specifications, ensuring that every page matches your expectations, every time.
Autoflow & Coverage Based Planning
Virtual Publisher provides publishers the ability to create both fixed shape & flowing editorials. Editorials can be configured to allow or deny separation of the pages, giving the publisher full control the layout & design of the issue.
Template Creation / Recurring Layout
When creating a new issue or title, Virtual Publisher allows users to easily duplicate templates with the click of a mouse. Teams can reproduce layouts & specifications of an issue immediately saving valuable time.
Custom Approval Cycles
Construct your approval cycles to create maximum efficiency within your team, allowing teams to approve pages in sequences that best fit their workflow. With approval cycles, mistakes are a thing of the past!
Editorial Manager inDesign Plugin
The Editorial & Page Manger Plugins allow users to seamlessly transfer text assignments, photography & ad materials from Virtual Publisher directly into InDesign & vice versa. Users are able to upload print-ready files directly from InDesign to Virtual Publisher, saving valuable time & increasing efficiency.
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