Desktop Publishing of Price Books, Parts Books, Product Manuals For Desktop publishing, we are your complete pre-press service. Our expertise in project management, technical writing, graphic illustration and desktop publishing comes from over twenty-five years of combined experience ... for many repeat customers. We can help you produce your price books, parts books, service and installation manuals. To explore the services we offer, and how they can be combined together, click on a menu item or mouse-over our graphic on your left ... Contact Us Project Management Learn the product. Master the software. Remember the previous. Keep the deadline and protect the budget. Our repeat customers come back to us because we adhere to these principles. Desktop Publishing Layout and Design ... communication successful by design. Line Art or Photography ... graphics crisp and compelling. Tables, Columns or Free-Flowing Paragraphs ... page styling of infinite variation. Managed Content ... structured documents renewable and cost-efficient. To see what we do ... and what we've done for others ... just click into our Desktop Publishing section. Technical Writing Subject Matter Faucets to backhoes, ion pumps to casement windows, whirlpool systems and shower doors to software help files ... we document any manufactured product. Document Types Brochures and catalogs to standard operating procedures; trade journal articles to price books; ad copy to product specifications ... detailing the mechanical, architectural and electronic disciplines. Styles Your style, any style ... for the homeowner to the service technician. Technical Illustrating CAD solids, projected onto a flat plane, smoothed for electronic purity and enhanced as requested. Isometric, axonometric and orthographic projections. From photos, sketches, blueprints or actual product. Programming Custom Scripting Extend AutoCAD QuickSilver (Interleaf), Adobe Illustrator and Acrobat, Microsoft Word and Excel ... Automated Price Books Price-publishing technology that goes to print as well as to web pages ... Stand-Alone Applications CAD Product Libraries launched from CDs or websites ... Document Manipulation Extract the data from your existing manuals into a database, XML or HTML. Languages Java, XML, HTML, Lisp (InterleafLisp and Visual LISP for AutoCAD), Visual Basic. Dispatching Content Publications To your printer's presses, as PostScript or as PDF ... To your favorite word processor, spreadsheet or database ... Graphics Your illustrations processed into separate files for print, for the web, for anywhere ... Text Your copy into HTML, XML and, of course, ASCII. Our Customers Our repeat customers have graciously allowed us to display both their logos and samples of some of the publications we build for them. Click on the "Our Customers" pull-down menu to see these pages. About this Image The graphic you see on the left is an enhanced version of a graphite crystal. Each sphere represents a single carbon atom; the "connecting tubes" represent their atomic covalent bond. For our purposes, two of the spheres (those we considered critical) were enlarged for focus. The carbon atoms in graphite are strongly bonded, but only in a single plane. This means that a pinch of graphite powder is actually many layers of these bonded planes, stacked loosely atop each other. These layers easily slide over each other, which is what makes graphite an ideal lubricant. Talcum powder is similar. We chose this image to represent our methodology because technical publishing is a layer in the manufacturing process, too. Actually, several: between marketing and engineering, between engineering and production ... and, of course, between product and user. Artwork must closely tie in with writing; graphics need to fit into desktop publishing, data has to be sifted by project managers, and so on. The elements of publishing must bind tightly to work. Yet the homeowner requires a different presentation than the engineer. So it is that good publishing must also be layered to be successful. Functions and Keys We programmed this website to dynamically display content relative to your mouse location. As you glide the mouse over certain areas on the page, you'll see text and images pop up for your review. ESC - Escape Key Pressing the "Esc" key will freeze any text or graphics your mouse has triggered. To release any frozen content, press "Esc" a second time. The status bar on the bottom of your browser will remind you of this functionality. The "Esc" key also closes the "Index" Pull-Down Menu. HOME - Home Key Pressing the "Home" key will redirect you to our Home Page, no matter where you are in this site.