CUSTOMER

Financial Services Research Firm

CHALLENGE

Convert publication workflow from analog to digital accurately and within a narrow time frame.

GOAL

To eliminate error rates in text and chart information created by an unstable workflow. To merge stock market information in PDF format within the working document. Deliver the books error free and on time.

SOLUTION

Created an automated system that stabilized font and content within the MS Word macro workflow.

Designed an automated software pagination system that could read individual PDF files and merge them with supplementary content to produce a 650+ page book.

RESULT

Cost savings and improved production timelines.

Prepress production time reduced from 3 days to just 12 hours.

Error rate reduced to virtually zero.

Moving to digital eliminated the expense of materials required within the analog production process.

This method proved so successful the client initiated an entirely new series of different books all based on this methodology, enhancing their status as Canada’s premier equity research firm.