Layout-8000 Benefits

• Enterprise ready - supports centralization, regionalization and other consolidation efforts out of the box
• Multi-server, multi-platform support
• Disaster recovery support
• Automatically dummies your newspapers using your guidelines
• Suggests tighter designed publications to save newsprint
• Proposes paper and group size based on ad percentage or editorial requirements or edition-specific templates
• Handles multiple page designs in only seconds
• Provides for jumping or dropping total pages, allowing ad redistribution
• Multi-zone view - displays multiple zones simultaneously to maximize common pages
• Facilitates dummying with multiple users and multiple workstations
• Facilitates automatic creation of editions in pagination systems
• Preserves the dummying history for analysis
• New versions are released often and the updates are self-service

Layout-8000 Features

• Includes an ad order entry, credit checking and scheduling system OR
• Provides easy real-time or batch interfacing to your current ad order entry system
• Supports configuration of the dummying rules and overall edition design as well as detailed dummying from menu options
• Handles simple and complex zoned publications
• Supports a combination or choice of automatic dummying, semi-automatic/guided or manual dummying
• Presents a user-configurable Ad List that can be sorted, filtered and color coded to facilitate easy assignment of ads to pages and that allows ads to be unassigned by dragging them to the list
• Has a Page Menu that allows easy access for jump and drop pages, creating blocks, fillers or ads, exchanging pages, etc.
• Has an Ad Menu that allows easy access for locking/unlocking, rezoning an ad, resizing an ad, etc.
• Uses tooltips to make basic information about ads, pages, etc. visible at a glance
• Supports unique widths for ads (i.e. in addition to full column widths)
• Ads can bleed into the margin of a page
• Supports a wide variety of position requests from ad order entry or a “reservation” system.
• Keeps reverse ads from touching each other and coupon ads from being dummied back to back
• Prints final statistical reports on advertising/editorial totals and ratios
• Has an optional interface to MetaAdBoss™ for additional sales analysis
• Supports drag-and-drop and other GUI effects
• Provides batch interfacing to most pagination systems
• Optional interfaces to Adobe InDesign® or to QuarkXPress®