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Multimedia Solutions
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Whether the content is an online novel, an educational text, trade
books, or corporate documentation, today’s technology offers myriad ways
to effectively distribute information.
Ideas can be presented not only by verbal description and static
illustration, but also through a range of electronic media designed to
engage all the senses.
However, with these new capabilities come significant challenges in
conceptualizing a published product, developing the product
efficiently, and ensuring that the enterprise is profitable.
Today’s information managers need production resources that are
reliable, technologically capable, and creative.
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| ICC Macmillan can add
functionality to your product with animation, video, sound, links, and other
interactive elements. We can create ancillary electronic products for your
print titles, or stand-alone online educational tools. ICC Macmillan offers
the following digital multimedia development services, including conceptualization
and design: |
- Production for Web, mobile, CD-ROM, and proprietary environments
- Animation; 3-D rendering; and situational, technical, and medical
illustrations
- Integration of third-party software
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Conversion Services
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| Now with
155 people in our conversion department, ICC Macmillan’s staff of designers,
programmers, technical artists, content engineers, and project managers
can convert a broad range of legacy content into virtually any file format.
Perhaps you have a combination of files in QuarkXPress, FrameMaker, PDF,
and Word that need to be merged and converted to the Open eBook Standard
(OeB). Perhaps you have a stack of books, only in hard copy, that you need
converted to proprietary, XML-based format. Whatever the input and the output,
ICC Macmillan has the conversion solution for you. |
| Corporate Conversion:
Corporations, government agencies, database managers, financial firms, libraries,
health agencies, and many other institutions benefit from ICC Macmillan’s
capabilities in handling even the most monumental customized conversion
projects: |
- Every conversion process is
submitted to internal assessment and planning stages where the DTD is
analyzed (or created), sample files evaluated, and the customer’s
requirements implemented into a streamlined workflow process.
- Each project is carefully planned and coordinated
throughout to ensure a smooth, predictable production flow. We achieve
superior content management to ensure files are effectively managed for
reliable archiving and easy repurposing
- In addition to comprehensive knowledge of book production, ICC Macmillan’s
teams of specialists have extensive experience coding in SGML, XML,
HTML, and a variety of proprietary markup schemes.
- Our electronic products undergo the same rigorous
quality as our print products, with a focus on content accuracy, tagging
consistency, and typographical excellence.
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| ICC Macmillan can
convert to the output format of your choice including: |
- OeB (Palm, Microsoft Reader, MobiPocket), Adobe Reader
- VitalSource VBK
- NIMAS-, DAISY-, and JAWS-compliant files
- print on demand
- SGML/XML, mathML, HTML/XHTML, WAP, and PDF
- DocBook
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