Understanding SDL's XPP

For almost two decades, companies around the world have relied on XyEnterprise to provide the key software element in the most sophisticated and automated publishing systems. That key element is XyEnterprise's XML Professional Publisher (XPP).

XyEnterprise's XML Professional Publisher (XPP) is the best-in-class software for the most complex and demanding publishing applications. An automated XML publishing engine, XPP delivers proven, scalable solutions for global leaders in the publishing, technical documentation, financial, government, high tech, aerospace and defense industries. XPP is a key component of some of the most sophisticated, high-production publishing systems in the world. Use XPP as a standalone solution, or integrate with Contenta or other content management systems for an end-to-end XML publishing solution.

  • A high throughput batch and interactive composition system turns XML content into high-quality composed and paginated Postscript or PDF output.

  • XPP is designed for organizations that produce high-volume publications ranging in complexity. These businesses require rapid turnaround, text and graphics input from multiple sources and output in a variety of formats.

  • Its strength lies in its ability to automate and simplify publishing jobs. Manual tasks that may take several hours on a desktop system can be completed automated, and in minutes, with XPP.

  • Targeted solutions provide specialized features to meet the needs of commercial publishers, financial printers, journal producers and in-house technical publishing departments that produce newsletters, books, magazines, loose-leaf manuals or catalogs.

  • XPP is ideal for any organization that has deployed a content management solution and requires end-to-end XML publishing to automate the production of simple or complex documents.

  • XPP benefits extend throughout the organization - from IT and management to editorial and production.

XML Professional Publisher is a high performance content formatting and publishing application that composes pages from XML source data and outputs high quality results in Postscript and PDF formats. XPP can also format other fielded data, such as database feeds, SGML, HTML, and other ASCII text to high-quality pages. XPP provides superior XML and typographic support combined with a level of speed, power and throughput that is unattainable in other publishing systems.

Typical users of XPP include software developers that produce large volumes of technical documentation, aerospace and other manufacturers that issue product and service manuals, legal publishers, and professional publishers who produce financial, scientific or medical journals, textbooks, catalogs, and loose-leaf publications. Increasingly, customers include publishers that offer publishing services to remote users for print-on-demand or hosted applications.

XPP will automate the composition of large volumes of data normally generated by companies that produce printed or PDF documents from an information repository of structured data (such as a content or document management system, database, or legacy system). An XPP system in action can turn XML and other encoded or structured data into fully formatted documents complete with complex tables, math equations, footnotes, tables of contents and indexes. In addition to printed pages, XPP will also produce Acrobat PDF documents or Web pages as part of its automated publishing capabilities.

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