Super DTP Publishing

Internet and database

At present, it says to the printing industry that we can no longer ignore the ubiquity of the Internet. In the survey of customer trends, if you don't understand the Internet, you can neither operate nor propose a clear plan. In the past, the printing industry always used the data of books as a group. Today, customers are very keen to make it database-oriented, especially for publications such as dictionaries and data sets. This demand is even stronger.

In front of us, the general-purpose grouping language called XML has become popular. Since last year, various related books have been published and sent to users, often encountering orders from government agencies. Adopt XML. This has had an extraordinary impact on the publishing industry.

Originally, printing companies have always held high quality requirements for group editions. However, for those printing companies that have completed printing after the group's edition, it is now an era when they can not work without absorbing new ideas. As a key word, you can cite the network that must be remembered first, the time to win, the database, XML, and so on.

It's the turn of the phrase "Super DTP" is going on. That is, in the Web server of the Internet, the connection between the above-mentioned database of the XML structure work and the currently-issued version data has been adopted. In short, accepting data from the Web server's database is transferred to the group version.

The foundation is XML.

Some of the publishers that come into contact with printing companies can only adopt the printing process in the past. This is obviously different from the publishing units that have been negotiated at the planning stage.

Often indoctrinating the printing companies, learning XML, persuasion should be resolved in the factory, and the result is that most of the printing companies are difficult to implement according to various reasons in the factory.

In today's fierce market competition, if the local printing industry is able to become familiar with database technology, it will appear that the original handed over to the city will be handed over to the local printing house. The basis for the future will depend on the fact that you do not have mastery. It depends on the technology. And its most critical foundation is the tagged text called XML. It is used for data interchange and based on it will be used as a prerequisite for database use. The key to content misappropriation is to build a good database, such as SGML, and send it to all parties in the same way that they use their data to send it to the group edition. This is exactly what is being demanded today.

As for the data obtained after the group edition, it is also useful to correct the data in a clear format by using pen corrections, and to return to XML again. To be more extreme, some customers will propose to SGML all sorted data and pass it to XML. Whether it can bear down, there are great differences.

Is it an increase in production or adding additional value?

What kind of impression does the so-called database give people? It is easier to understand the content of books by taking the content of data as an impression that the “basic knowledge of modern terms” is easy to understand. The new words that appear frequently are filled in, but they must be amended. This shows that for the database, this thing is to be updated every day to survive, as long as you grasp this idea, everything is clear. From the birth to the cycle of death, we must think of the database with the impression that there is data, so as to position the information industry.

The concomitant group edition is not based on the database. When it is modified to recognition, it is recorded as a geometric transformation. It should be recognized that this new era has come. It is not the same process that used to get the manuscript and forwarded the group version. After the database is completed, it gets its data via the Internet and forwards it to the group version. This new trend tends to be strong.

"Super DTP" is a new word that has emerged recently. It has not yet been approved by most people. It is actually intended to give existing DTPs new features. What I would like to show is that the prices of the Mac DTP and Windows DTP have been falling sharply so far. So we have to consider whether it is better to increase production, or to add new ideas, so that they give birth to additional value is good, at present, most of the printing plants, because the factory sub-team without new knowledge, in a state can not move forward. In fact, among the young people, there must be excellent talents who love learning. They should provide sufficient opportunities for them to play their talents.

Do a good job of preprocessing to increase production efficiency

With Mac DTP alone, it has been difficult to maintain the situation. In order to change this situation, it should have the ability to elicit XML or SGML. Without this new DTP, it is not easy to survive. Because XML and SGML already have all marked passwords, they can be used to mark the password input and batch edition, which is an effective way to deal with blanket packages. Of course, graphics and photos can also be processed. The form of EPS is already available in DTP for use as a common document. This is also important as a function.

The original version of the data is completely confidential, but when it comes back to XML, if you want to maintain its status, if you do not have a dark password function, you cannot use it again. That is to say, A's publication does not use it, but B's publication has to propose to use it, the dictionary class is. If there is no keyword in the interior, classification is difficult. If you do not use it to make a layout, you will no longer have secondary use.

The DTP with this function is Adobe's frame maker + SGML for general applications. It is used horizontally for easy leveling, but it cannot be vertical, so it is not perfect. To make vertical and digital layouts, apply Pagecomp produced by Dainippon Screen. After the completion of the pre-processing, it can meet the challenges of all kinds of group editions, greatly improving the production efficiency. Using the data, in the work of making a CD-ROM, due to the XML-tagged text, the above requirements can be fully satisfied. From this it can be seen that various new developments are already in sight. If you still do not adopt such functions, you will still have to rely on DTP's group version to cross the border. In addition, in the one-to-one market demand, the printing industry has already faced the period of on-demand printing. Not only printing, but also how to retain data, how to expand in batch processing, as long as the information processing technology is available, the prospects are extremely bright.

Use XML for new services

The world will undergo dramatic changes due to the IT revolution. The use of IT industry will become the driving force for economic development. The reason why the printing industry uses DTP is also for IT. The IT revolution is the foundation of the production network, and its related communications business occupies a considerable ratio. The printing industry is also included in large groups such as advertising, propaganda, audio and video information industries. Due to the IT revolution, the industrial structure has potentially changed. When dealing with customers, it is impossible to provide specific solutions if the mind is not in place. . In addition, it must be taken into account that the government will soon enter the realm of e-government. With the networking of society, new things are constantly emerging. The printing industry is in this era of social turmoil, and we must take it seriously.

In terms of printing, the manual category must be attributed to XML. Papers, reports, etc. are also applicable to XML. The work of dictionaries and data books in publications must necessarily be converted to XML-related databases. It is very likely that the area that was previously considered to be narrow has turned into a very broad area, but the current printing companies are not aware of this.

At present, some publishers do not consider making publications but wish to provide database-based suggestions. There are also discussions on how to integrate the system to achieve arbitrary data usage. If the printing company cannot cope well with this new service requirement, it will be abandoned by the customer.

For this reason, it is normal to do a good job of database, adopting XML is more appropriate, and it is time to provide a new business model. Printing companies must also remain as a data information service. However, it is XML that constitutes the basis of its existence. Only those who use XML to provide new services can survive. This is the concept of advocating "super DTP publishing."