DocScape’s performance features

DocScape offers an extensive range of options and performance features. The following selection is only a small excerpt of these features:

100% automatic text formatting to satisfy even the most sophisticated typographic standards

• Paragraph optimization
• Multi-column type
• Automatically calculated textflows over several pages or around cropping paths
• Rule-based column and page breaks 

Automated layout calculation

• Flexible page layouts; simple definition of different page types
• Object placement in typesetting grid
• Layout adapts to calculated object dimensions
• Suppression and layout options are controlled by design rules
• Cropping paths are taken into account in the placement of objects
• Flexible object alignment (also observing paths in image file)
• Page- and chapter-transcending design rules (utilization of available space) 

Multilingualism / internationalization

• Automatic hyphenation in all languages; hyphenation exception dictionaries
• Full Unicode support
• Support of all Asian / Arabic fonts (dynamic switching of text direction)
• Language-specific microtypography
• Image steadiness synchronization for the cost-efficient printing (changing the black plate) of several language versions even in dynamic layouts 

PDF document format

• Efficient processing / no post-processing required
• Extensive documents (> 1000 pages smoothly and efficiently)
• Top quality for pre-press according to PDF X.3 standard
• Download documents for the World Wide Web with integrated hyperlinks and bookmarks
• Full image presentation for beamer demonstrations
• Hypertext support
• Production of partial documents (by chapter or sheet) 

Table generation

• Any number of columns / pages
• Automatic crosstab generation through data reduction
• Tables or formatted texts within tables
• Automatic horizontal or vertical, rule-based breaks
• Table synchronization over double-page spreads
• Automatic colorization of columns / lines / cells / sections
• Synchronous or asynchronous concurrent continuous text (notes) 

Comprehensive performance features

• Content tables, structures and index tables in any number and form, with hypertext support if required
• Data reduction - as a formula-based pre-processing option (transformation) or as part of design regulations
• Integration of media asset and content management systems
• Remote publishing: access to publishing server, e.g. via the web
• Robustness: a base of thousands of users who work with the basic technology and 20 years of experience guarantee a superior degree of process reliability
• Multiplatform support (Unix/Linux, Windows, Macintosh)