Interactive Flatplan

Being able to display a digital flatplan in a Web browser is not enough. The current Web technologies allow you to go beyond that.
For creative stages as well as managing your digital flatplan, SYGESP makes use of the latest Internet technologies. The SYGESP's interactive flatplan is:

  • Automatically generated from your InDesign file,
  • Presented like the spreads of the InDesign file,
  • Exportable in PDF format for printing,
  • Totally interactive: addition and deletion of pages via Drag & Drop directly into the InDesign css through your Web browser, direct access to the production system (updating of texts and images, crop images, annotating directly on the page, management of exports, etc.).
                                    

Managing briefs

SYGESP allows you to generate a brief for each SYGESP's user very easily, zone by zone (text or image) and for one or more pages. Each brief generates an email alert for the user in charge. All the e-mail alerts are also automatically entered into the users "to-do list" which are displayed on SYGESP home page. Lastly, once the brief is recorded, it is included in production schedules.

Managing the work schedule and production schedule

Reference point for end-users, the SYGESP schedule allows them to access their key publication dates. Automatically generated as soon as a brief is assigned, the SYGESP schedule also allows you to add to the production schedule a specific event addressed to the entire team (such as a meeting) and to take advantage of the e-mail alerts system to dispatch this new information.

Multi-language management

The SYGESP user interface is available in both French and English. On special order, it is also available in all other European languages and in Arabic, Asian languages and Cyrillic writing because SYGESP is based entirely on Unicode. The SYGESP publishing platform allows you to manage as many versions as needed for your publications. All you have to do is select the corresponding languages. The validation workflow allows you then to define the procedures for initiating the translations. Each version has its own InDesign file, its PDF versions at various levels of resolution, and export capability for XML, HTML …

Cropping images

SYGESP includes a module for updating and cropping images. Drawing on certain of the main features available in Photoshop (types of tools available, keyboard shortcuts, etc.), this module allows you to execute a very precise image cropping by simply using your Web browser. Following validation, the newly defined parameters will be applied directly to the file containing the high-resolution versions. Your InDesign file is thus immediately modified. Of course, a complete log of changes made is available and allows you at any time to recover any of your previous croppings.
SYGESP always saves the original high-resolution file.
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Text editor

SYGESP 2.0 is the only cross-media publishing platform with a full Java text editor entirely dedicated to the ADOBE InDesign CS4 Server. Compare with other platforms that use WYSIWYG editors whose function is to update and format texts and pics for HTML pages, the SYGESP 2.0 editor is designed solely for InDesign CS4 Server.
Thanks to SYGESP 2.0 technologies, you can update texts and complex tables safely.
In order to better understand this major difference, do not hesitate to contact us for a demonstration. Better yet! Compare the power of the SYGESP 2.0 editor by requesting to test the other platforms using your own InDesign files and especially those representing the most complex cases. Moreover, require a live generation of your modified .INDD file by the system and test it!
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Templates management

The SYGESP publishing platform allows you to centralize and classify all or part of your InDesign templates. The template management module allows you to store your InDesign templates on the server. When you create a number from one of these templates, you can immediately work on it without having to upload a large file.
The use of csss management function allows you to re-use and compose new page csss an infinite number of times.

Exports PDF, INDD, XML, HTML

SYGESP allows you to export your publications in various formats. With the InDesign CS4 Server jobOptions settings, you can customize your PDF exports and associate them with different users profiles.

As a cross-media publishing platform, SYGESP also allows you to export your data to xml and html formats.

Managing InDesign Server instances

SYGESP 2.0 is powered by IDS Connector™ - the software engine designed and developed by GOALAND to operate InDesign Server. This technology allows you, from your Web browser, to manage your InDesign server remotely and very easily. If needed, you can stop or restart one or more InDesign Server instances and install additional Fonts. The Fonts used in your InDesign documents are automatically installed by the system when the document is uploaded.

Profile management

Because each production run is different and involves several skill levels, SYGESP 2.0 gives you the greatest flexibility in managing users profiles. You can name them according to your own operating codes, then set up the corresponding profile yourself, along with the proper action rights.
With SYGESP 2.0, you can create a specific profile for each of your productions.

Access rights management

Thanks to SYGESP, you can fast and easily manage the access rights of the end-users. With more than 200 different types of access rights, a system of inheritance with 7 levels, a management of an unlimited groups of users , the AJAX interface of SYGESP allows you to create combinations of access rights with no limit.

Workflow Management

SYGESP integrates a powerful workflow engine which allows you to define and implement your own working process through an efficient and very intuitive AJAX interface.

The SYGESP workflow engine allows you to combine 4 levels of validation procedures and to set up automation of numerous of your production processes.
Build your own workflow with SYGESP!

Creating frame

You need to create a new frame in your InDesign css? So, do it yourself!

The SYGESP Flash interface allows you to add text frames and image frames into your InDesign css. It takes just a mouse click. As all of these new frames are created directly in the InDesign file, your css designer can modify them if needed.

Historical of the validation actions

All the users actions are stored in the SYGESP database. Thus, each validation action is saved with the name of the validator and the related date and time of each of his actions.

This information, always available using the corresponding function, enables the project managers effectively supervise the progress of the various publications in course of production using the filtering criteria. At any time, you can quickly and easily know who did what, where and when.

MediaData

Designed to manage large volumes of data, MediaData is a Digital Asset Management (DAM) which runs with most of format of images (including JPEG, EPS, TIFF, PSD, AI, PDF), videos and sounds and allows you to simply store all your digital data through a Flex interface accessible with your Web browser (Flash plug-in required).


MediaData helps you to organize your data and find them through its infinite tree structure, the keywords, the custom metadata, the management of EXIF and IPTC, the automatic videos conversions for direct preview,  the simple and advanced search functions, the selection filters ... When it is integrated to SYGESP, MediaData can work as unique resource for storage and updating images used in the publications in course of production in SYGESP. In such a case and if you have selected the "image linked" function, when you modify an image using SYGESP cropping images functions, all the InDesign files containing that image are modified in the same time.