Design

Dakota Systems has spent the last decade finding solutions for design software and application integration. Whether undertaking multi-lingual translations or basic publishing design, it essential to have expertise in order to avoid delaying time-to-market, production problems, and content format conflicts.

Desktop Publishing Expertise

• FrameMaker 7.0 or 8.0
• Adobe InDesign CS3
• QuarkXPress
• Adobe Illustrator
• PageMaker
• WebWorks
• Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint

Layout

XSL-FO

Dakota Systems has been a leader in integrating and customizing content management systems, so it made sense to approach the publishing process with a step-wise method by helping companies find solutions at every stage of publishing. Centralized document formatting and publishing is a challenging endeavour to implement enterprise-wide due to the countless formats being used across different business divisions. Both large and small businesses face the same problem: how to manage content publishing across an enterprise while retaining quality and consistency of the output. Writing XSL-FOs to help publish documents across almost any format has been our goal. Dakota has published documents in a wide array of cosmetic layouts - almost always customized to fit an enterprise standard, retaining both brand value and consistency.

PDF Publishing

Companies have struggled with the challenges of PDF production from layout with desktops publishing tools to embedding fonts. As an implementation specialist, Dakota consultants can provide solutions across the PDF publishing spectrum - everything from customized XSL-FO layouts to embedding and subsetting special fonts.

Based on end-user and business owner requirements, our consultants can find the optimal PDF publishing methods to streamline output of any content format or digital media.