Digital Publishing Company

The starting point of all digital magazines is the PDF of the print publication. We digitise from a PDF because it is a standard format that all publishing systems can produce. Read more here for the full details on PDF requirements. You upload your PDFs to our FTP site. We combine the publication together in Olive Software and then begin the production cycle.

Segmentation
We divide the publication into its elements. Each article is identified as a unique element together with accompanying pictures and captions etc.

Table of contents (TOC)
We list each article by its headline and each advert by advertiser name. Sections of the magazine are also clearly identified in the TOC.

Text layer
Every word in the publication is captured in the text layer which sits ‘behind’ the Flash viewer. This enables the search to work, but also offers users the ability to just read and print just the text of an article with no pictures.

Index and publish
The XML repository for the magazine is uploaded to the server, the magazine is indexed and made live.

The entire contents of the magazine have now been captured in digital format and the original carrier of the information, the PDF, is no longer needed.

Olive Software has created XML code which records the precise location on the page from which every element, even every word, came. This is accompanied by JPEGs of the pictures on the pages and PNG files for the text. Combining these two layers creates a .swf file which is what the user sees displayed in the browser.

The unique advantage of the Olive Software digitisation process lies in the XML which can also be output into other XML formats, HTML, or plain text. But it also means that the magazine can be split up and distributed on an article-by-article basis. This creates flexible options for the publisher.

• Whole magazine view through a reader.
• An archived collection of magazines.
• Single article distribution by RSS.
• User-created collections.
• Shared services between publishers. Olive’s XML is compatible with PRISM, the publishing industry-standard metadata vocabulary for managing, aggregating and multi-purposing magazine and news journal content.
• Output to other XML schemas.

This provides the reassurance that magazine content digitized by Olive Software creating the XML will allow for the flexible sale and distribution of that content in the future. To all intents, it is ‘future-proof’.