Mindfire has deep experience developing software for the publishing, printing and pre-press industries. We describe some of these publishing industry project experiences below, and will be glad to share our expertise in detail with you.

• DAM - CMS Client Software Applications
• NewsPaper Office Automation Enterprise Product
• Web-based System for Newspaper Publishing
• Quark Xpress Tools Suite (Universal Binary)
• PDF electronic forms authoring in Quark XPress

DAM - CMS Client Software Applications
Leaders in DAM and CMSs for the Publishing Industry; Florida, US

Industry:
DAM/CMS/Publishing Business Domain

Technologies:
Mac OSX, Quark XPress, Adobe InDesign, C++, PowerPlant, Expat/XML, Codewarrior, CVS

This is a configurable DAM/CMS system that streamlines the creation, production, and distribution of your publication and product marketing information. It is a multi-tier, client-server application/product comprising of the multiple distinct-functionality clients and the server. These components complement and interact with each other to help an organization manage its multimedia digital files (Assets). This  system uses a centralized database to store digital files and all the information that describes these Assets. The Assets themselves are stored on Volumes that are located on Content Storage Servers accessible across a local or wide area network. This system has essentially two main concepts (1) Construct/Create and Import data into the CMS/Server using any of the client applications, and (2) Construct publishing documents using the content present on the Server.

NewsPaper Office Automation Enterprise Product
Developer of most cost & time efficient workflow products for NewsPaper/Magazine Enterprises; Stockholm, Sweden

Industry:
Publishing Business Domain Products

Technologies:
Mac OSX, WinXP, WxWidgets, C++, C#, XML, DotNetFmwrk, COM, UML, TCP/IP, PostgreSQL DB, Codewarrior, Quark XPress, Adobe InDesign/InCopy, gSOAP, ASP.NET, CVS

This is a NewsPaper Enterprise Product which completely automates the workflow for a newspaper publishing house. This has support for Content & Task Planning for a daily newspaper. This lets you Plan, Schedule, Assign Work/Resources, Manage & Track Resources/Work, Work, Edit (with multiple industry-leading applications), Publish etc. Completely configurable, this supports access privileges, work-sharing/synchronization etc.  This is a client-server application based on n-Tier architecture. The system uses PostgreSQL database but has an architecture that makes it open to use any kind of SQL databases. The client is a thin-client which runs on both Windows and Macintosh (OS X). It shares a common code base for both the platforms.  This has multiple clients, Mac/Windows and support for working with Quark Xpress and Adobe InDesign. The client server setup is service oriented, based on ASP.NET services (DotNet on WindowsXP).

Web-based System for Newspaper Publishing
Developer of most cost & time efficient workflow products for NewsPaper/Magazine Enterprises; Kiesta, Sweden

Industry:
Publishing Business Domain Products

Technologies:
Adobe InDesign Server, C++, C#, XML, DotNetFmwrk, ASP.Net, PostgreSQL DB, gSOAP, IIS, Windows XP

This is a web-based system for producing newspapers. The user is able to produce an almost complete newspaper just using a browser to communicate with the Product Server. Using this product one can write directly to the publishing page documents via a web-browser. Intended as a backup system for larger newsrooms, or as main editorial system for smaller newsrooms or editions.

Quark Xpress Tools Suite (Universal Binary)
A Leading Software Products Provider for Publishing/Imaging software.; Oregon, US

Industry:
Imaging/Publishing Industry Business Domain

Technologies:
Mac OS X (Intel & PPC), Quark XPress 7.x, Codewarrior 9.x, Xcode 2.x

This is a complete suite of Universal Binary tools for Quark XPress 7.x, to simplify everyday tasks with over a dozen essential XTensions.  Some of the features/tools include: • View your fonts in their own typeface  • View and navigate multi-spread documents quickly • Drag and drop images and text documents directly from the Mac OSX Finder into XPress 7 documents  Most of these tools are new. There is also a set of tools migrated and enhanced from XPress 6.x to 7.x, involving:  • Migration from CodeWarrior to Xcode • Migration from PPC to Universal Binary.

PDF electronic forms authoring in Quark XPress
Leading Documents Security and Forms Automation Solutions Provider; Minneapolis, US

Industry:
Secure Documents/Forms Industry

Technologies:
Quark XPress, Adobe PDF, PDFMark, PostScript Standards, Adobe Distiller, C++, XML, JavaScript, Codewarrior, VC++, CVS, Mac OS X, Windows XP

This is an AcroForms-like environment as it exists in Adobe Acrobat Professional within Quark XPress 6.x on both Windows and MacOSX. This allows users to create PDF forms based on existing Quark XPress documents. This includes a PDF form fields importer feature allowing a PDF's form fields to be imported onto Quark XPress documents. Essentially, to allow a user to use existing PDF forms for creation of an electronic form via Quark XPress documents.