axaio MadeToPrint
Intelligent Printing and Exporting
from your preferred layout and design applications

• processes big data volumes in a shorter time


• saves costs while avoiding mistakes through a standardized workflow


• minimizes repetitive tasks and the number of keystrokes


• no repetitive control of settings saves time and secures the workflow


• guarantees best output results through different quality checks


• enhanced workflow through a centralized output administration


• short time to Return-on-Investment (ROI)

• vjoon K4


• WoodWing Enterprise


• Van Gennep PlanSystem


• Quark Publishing System


• Using job tickets

axaio MadeToPrint Server is an output server solution with three components:

• Adobe InDesign Server,


• the matching MadeToPrint plugin, and


• a user interface that is installed as stand-alone program.

MadeToPrint Server automates printing and output processes in order to
produce cost-effectively and at the highest quality level.

• vjoon K4


• WoodWing Enterprise


• Van Gennep PlanSystem


• Using job tickets

• MadeToPrint Auto and MadeToPrint Server solve current issues by automating,
  extending, enhancing, and streamlining printing and output processes.
  Predefined jobsets in MadeToPrint provide identical output from every file
  for increased efficiency, as well as considerable time and cost savings.
  
  Any publisher looking to standardize output in order to decrease
  cost and errors should have a look at MadeToPrint.

• MadeToPrint is the ideal gate keeper and offers streamlined and
  faultless production with standardized file naming, adding info bars,
  handling language layers and finally providing a fully imposed ready to print file.
  Needless to say that this adds a tremendous efficiency increase,
  and considerable time and cost savings.

• MadeToPrint relieves designers for all technicalities of preparing files for print.
  It solves output flaws, misprints, issues with layers, etc. by extending,
  enhancing, checking and streamlining all output processes.

• With MadeToPrint for Adobe Illustrator, axaio software provides a solution
  to automate PDF output from Illustrator with all the advantages such as
  cost savings and reduced errors.
  
  For packaging design and pre-press teams, MadeToPrint is the perfect tool to
  automate the creation of different packaging versions, standardize file naming
  and increase output consistency.
  Once an output specification is set up in a MadeToPrint JobSet all files
  processed with that JobSet will consistently fit the same specification.
  
  MadeToPrint for Adobe Illustrator also allows you to extract all kinds of versions
  from the same master file, for example different language versions,
  low resolution for customer approval, a technical specification version
  for making the die cuts and more.
  
  Packaging designers and pre-press professionals are now able to create
  PDF files from Adobe Illustrator, without having to worry whether complex
  layer structures are correctly handled, or whether naming conventions and
  other production specifications are set correctly.

• Production managers can create output jobsets once, making them available to all users,
  to get identical output from every workstation with one mouse click.

• create an “Output setting”


• use that output setting to generate output from InDesign, QuarkXPress,…


• each output setting generates exactly one type of output

Output Setting:
Allows setting up:
• preflight checks and updates to perform
  before starting the output process


• requested file format


• options for that file format


• where and with which name output should go


• pre- and post-processing scripts


• …

Output Set:
• contains multiple output settings


• use an output set to generate standardized
  output for all output settings it contains


• then, one keyboard click generates many different types of output


• use page ranges from settings in Output Settings

Output settings and output sets only need to be created once
• Can be exported and shared with others

New feature: Single Page Output

• Use Single Page Output

New feature: Use Page Ranges from Settings in Sets

• Use the preset page ranges of each single job when executing a Set

Possibility to define the page range of a document which needs to be output.
Previously one could only overwrite the page range of all MadeToPrint jobs,
which were combined in a MadeToPrint job set,
e.g. all jobs included in the set were executed with the page range 'all pages'.

The benefit of this new feature is that one can now output exactly
the defined page range of each single job in a set instead of
e.g. 'all pages' of all jobs in a set.
This new setting option means a boost of efficiency as well as a
more tailor-made and accurate batch processing in MadeToPrint.

• Allow defining different hot folders to automatically produce
  output from Adobe InDesign jobs dropped into those hot folders.


• Hot folders can be assigned different priorities which determine
  the order in which folders are scanned and jobs are processed by MadeToPrint.

This allows setting up prioritized workflows;
hot folder setups to generate files to be archived can for example be given
a lower priority than hot folder setups related to urgent production work.

• Image smoothing options when Adobe InDesign jobs are exported
  to PNG or TIFF images; making such images more usable especially
  when produced as thumbnails or preview images.

In workflows where layers and layer views are used,
export of specific layer views by name is supported to increase flexibility.

• The purpose of MadeToPrint is to reduce errors and lead-times
  and as a result increase rentability of production.
  
  An important part of this process are tokens.
  Tokens are variables that allow output settings in MadeToPrint
  to be more flexible and to incorporate various pieces of metadata,
  ranging from dates and times, over automatically increasing
  numbers to information from editorial systems.
  
  Tokens are available for many aspects of output settings.
  They can be used to determine where files will be saved,
  how their name will be created and more.
  MadeToPrint contains built-in help to work with tokens and
  allows predefined token lists for recurring needs.
  
  Four important new tokens have recently beed added to provide information regarding
  
  • the number of files generated by an export setting,
  
  
  • the sequence in that output, and
  
  
  • the first and last spread number of the currently exported file.

A new token (variable), called ScriptLabel,
has been added to MadeToPrint’s token engine to e.g. standardize
the folder and file naming even more dynamically.

This token captures the content of an Adobe InDesign text frame,
labeled with a specific ScriptLabel, and imports it into the folder or file name.
This will give the user more options to adjust his workflow set-up
in a flexibel and tailor-made way.

• News: Managing job configurations
  
  MadeToPrint now comes with a configuration manager, which optimizes
  the handling of different and complex customer or project configurations.
  Each MadeToPrint configuration can be setup with all jobs
  and job sets for a particular client, magazine, project etc.
  
  Switching between configurations is easy and quick and configurations
  can be exported and imported so that all settings for a particular project
  are easily transferred from one system to another.
  
  On top of that, MadeToPrint now also allows searching jobs and job sets.
  Because the search system filters not only on name but on all properties of
  a job or job set, it’s an incredibly powerful way to find specific jobs or
  job sets in a large configuration.

• News: Exporting Adobe InDesign Files

MadeToPrint specializes in taking InDesign files and exporting them to various output formats.

• News: InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop

MadeToPrint will undertake the tasks necessary to automatically receive
native Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop layout documents
and export them into PDF.

Advantages at a glance for users;

• Automated PDF export from Adobe InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop files.


• Automated native file preflight in MadeToPrint before generating the PDF.


• Time savings for more efficiency and enhanced usability.

• News: IDML to PDF

MadeToPrint is also able to open IDML files and process those.

• News: Native InDesign as Output Format

MadeToPrint can now also use native InDesign as output file format.

E.g. IDML files that need to be converted to INDD format,
can now simply be dropped into a MadeToPrint hot folder
and MadeToPrint will save proper InDesign files.

• News: Interactive PDF!

An often requested export format has been added: the interactive PDF.

This gives users two possibilities;
to either export their Adobe InDesign document:

• as a print PDF, or


• as an interactive PDF, which can be integrated into websites, tablets,
  mailings, etc. making the content much more vivid and allowing
  interactivity with the reader/viewer.
  
  All interactive elements that are created in the Adobe InDesign document,
  like for example 'buttons', 'forms', etc. are preserved in the interactive PDF.

• News: Processing native files

The automated versions of MadeToPrint
(MadeToPrint Auto for InDesign and MadeToPrint Server for InDesign Server)
are now capable of automatically picking up images, Photoshop and
Illustrator files from hot folders.

These files are placed in a newly created InDesign document and from there
exported according to the settings of the specific job or job set.

For such native files MadeToPrint provides a completely automatic conversion to
PDF, image, PostScript or any other file format supported by MadeToPrint.

The old user interface, which was based on Adobe AIR and Flash Player,
has been replaced by a native application.

For an easier set-up of the MadeToPrint Server configuration we do recommend
all customers who are using MadeToPrint together with Adobe InDesign Server
to install the current Server UI for MadeToPrint. It offers much more comfort
when configuring MadeToPrint Server and is above all much faster.

In addition, it offers more options for further development and
can therefore be adapted more flexibly to customer requirements.
It is also planned to further extend the UI in the coming months
into a kind of 'control center' in order to provide the customer with a
comprehensive response to the status of the processing in the current workflow.
MadeToPrint Server UI v1.0.003 can be installed separately,
regardless of which InDesign version the customer is working with.

MadeToPrint K4 is an Adobe InDesign plug-in that enables K4 users to export
highly automated and standardized file formats directly from within
the K4 editorial database.
It is available in two different automation versions, Auto or Server,
depending on the customer’s automation demand:

• MadeToPrint Auto K4 is an Adobe InDesign desktop extension
  to achieve an automated, status-based output from within
  vjoon's publishing system K4.
  K4 users benefit from the advantages of MadeToPrint output capabilities
  that are fully integrated into their editorial workflow,
  ensuring a reliable and effective output process.
  This way, publishers can streamline print and export operations
  for any publication format, adding tremendous efficiency and
  considerable time and cost savings.


• MadeToPrint Server K4 is suitable for companies
  with high-volume data processing.
  K4 is controlled via a MadeToPrint job ticket mode and allows
  the automated output of Adobe InDesign layouts directly from
  within the editorial database.
  With MadeToPrint Server for K4, users of vjoon’s publishing system can
  profit from the power, performance and stability of Adobe InDesign Server
  as well as the efficient MadeToPrint output capabilities.

Production processes leading to the final printed document need to
be as efficient and reliable as possible, especially when handling
specialized documents in multiple languages and versions.

axaio MadeToPrint is the ideal gate keeper and offers streamlined and
faultless production with standardized file naming and path handling,
adding info bars, handling language layers and finally providing an
imposed file ready for digital print output.
Needless to say that this adds a tremendous efficiency increase, and
considerable time and cost savings.

axaio MadeToPrint Auto can be integrated with Quark Publishing Platform
for a status-based output.

Creative and production teams in publishing and packaging environments
invest a lot of time and effort in enhancing document output procedures
from within different layout applications.
They often struggle with output flaws, misprints and time loss.
axaio MadeToPrint for Switch solves these issues by extending, optimizing and
streamlining printing and output processes from within the customer’s
favorite layout application through a Enfocus Switch flow.

Offers highly customizable print and export.
The configurators allow MadeToPrint to be integrated as a
component in Switch (work)flows via drag-and-drop.
Selecting a print job, MadeToPrint controls the print and data output
directly from within Enfocus Switch.
Using the MadeToPrint configurators, Switch users can automatically
create standardized and reliable PDF output flows without having to
open the native layout documents manually.

axaio MadeToPrint provides options like preflighting documents,
checking and updating them for missing links or fonts,
dynamic definition of file and folder names using tokens (variables),
batch processing and individual layer handling, especially useful for
production of multilingual documents.

Furthermore, MadeToPrint combines time consuming individual steps,
such as proofing, printing and creating PDFs of varying resolutions before
finally archiving, into one single job, to process them all together in one go.
Users can execute MadeToPrint jobsets to simultaneously control any number of output.
As such, MadeToPrint can handle multiple tasks and output combinations
in parallel for highest efficiency.
All jobsets are saved centrally and can be used by all employees.
This way consistent results are guaranteed!