Perfect Publishing: How Digital Workflows Can Help Yield Big Results
March 2024
The publishing sector has undergone a seismic shift with the advent of digital asset management and workflow systems.
MediaPlanner from Papermule is the most widely used edition flat planning solution by UK national magazine and newspaper publishers, enabling them to secure greater efficiency and cost savings by streamlining the entire planning and production process. The platform supports all stages of publication, from edition planning, revenue and space reporting to tracking graphical elements and final output of completed pages.
MediaPlanner integrates seamlessly with leading editorial, desktop publishing, and ad sales systems, including AdDesk, and delivers exceptional functionality, including:
➢ Regional variants
➢ Page Inheritance
➢ Flex placements
➢ Auto-placements
➢ Auto-flowing
➢ Revenue and Space utilisation reporting
Efficient integrations enable exported plans to be opened in Adobe InDesign using our MDP plugin or via many leading editorial platforms, such as Atex and Methode.
Available as a web-based or native client option.
Hosted or on-premises.
Fully modular so users can adapt the solution to their specific needs.
Manages Run of Paper (ROP) and classified section on a single platform.
Integrates seamlessly with different editorial solutions or ad booking systems.
A variety of outputs: XML, InDesign, EPS, or PDF.
Automatic flow of ads to page according to pre-set criteria.
Flexibility to select classifications, individual sections, or an entire edition for planning.
Auto places class headers.
Supports a filler library.
Integrates with ADDESK to provide planned page number feedback and eTearSheets.
MediaPlanner offers exceptional functionality and will streamline your organisation’s planning and production process to achieve valuable cost savings and improved efficiency.
To find out more about our leading flat planning solution, please call Papermule today on 01379650330 or send us an enquiry.
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Yes, you can reserve space for, and create editorial containers within the Papermule solutions.
Yes, Papermule’s ADDESK supports a pagination engine able to ingest plan data and output finished PDF pages to a destination or workflow of your choice.
Our Java-based DAM engine provides a feature-rich web-accessible solution hosted on a Linux O/S. The client is entirely web-based and uses a mix of HTML, JS, JSON, and XML. Integrations are typically achieved using a mix of API and feature-rich Perl modules.
Server side we use Linux with support for client access from Mac, PC and Linux platforms running the most common web browsers inc. Chrome, Edge and Safari.
All our solutions are accessible from a WEB client with the exception of MediaPlanner which still also supports a think PC Client. Our philosophy since 2003 for all our development has been web-only making the interface well thought out and not an 'add on'. We support the most recent browser versions on Mac, PC and Linux
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