Revamping and Creating Platforms at DiacriTech

Model 4.0 of XEditPro, DiacriTech’s cloud-based SaaS editorial and manufacturing platform, underwent a significant structure improve final yr. A downloadable possibility, as an example, was created based mostly on a consumer’s request. “The on-demand widget encrypts and decrypts content material on the fly because the person scrolls by way of it,” says government v-p A.R.M. Gopinath. “It’s most helpful for employees and shoppers who’re nonetheless in WFH mode and don’t want, or want, to be on-line always to entry or work on the platform.”

The most recent iteration additionally addresses one main subject that publishers grapple with: fonts. Solely fonts preapproved by the publishing shoppers will now be used for his or her respective tasks, and a font report will likely be generated for compliance functions.

Customizing content material from a number of titles throughout the XEditPro system can be doable and simple. “One consumer has been utilizing, and benefitting from, XEditPro’s functionality to customise their content material for the previous three years,” Gopinath says. “We’ve built-in XEditPro with their digital supply programs, thus enabling their merchandise to get to market quicker and at decrease value with little fuss. Floating bars, custom-made features, and different beauty modifications, as an example, make the method quicker and the person expertise extra fluid and pleasant. The improved XEditPro options additional facilitate collaborative content material modifying whereas permitting contributors so as to add chunks of content material in addition to attachments that they’ll confer with at later phases of the method.”

Faculty and college course content material and assessments with associated HTML5 belongings, audio, and video information can now be created inside XEditPro. “The information will be populated instantly from XEditPro into in style LMS platforms comparable to Moodle and Canvas utilizing APIs [Application Programming Interfaces] or the Widespread Cartridge export possibility,” Gopinath says. “These options and enhancements are geared toward making the publishing course of simpler and quicker whereas producing high-quality merchandise.”

Then there was the launch final September of Eazy Creator, an authoring platform that streamlines and simplifies the manuscript-writing course of. Eazy Creator’s creation was pushed by the dual objectives of assembly the rising world demand for OA publications and aiding authors with their OA content material. “This full-fledged platform lets the writer concentrate on simply the content material with out the fuss of tedious formatting or technical know-how,” Gopinath says. “It permits collaborative authoring with instruments for file sharing, reviewing, and commenting. The WYSIWYG equation editor makes coming into equations tremendous simple, and there are ready-to-use templates to rapidly output content material in several codecs, together with EPUB, HTML, XML, PDF, JATS, NIMAS, and DAISY. A number of templates designed to fulfill OA publishers’ necessities are additionally out there. Authors can put together and publish on their very own, in addition to use this platform to kickstart the publishing course of.”

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