Managing Editor Inc. - MEI Releases New Versions of ALS for Magazines, AdForce and ALS Direct

Jenkintown, PA (April 1, 2009) — Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), an Adobe arch development accomplice and a arch provider of software solutions for the publishing industry, today appear new releases of Ad Layout System (ALS) for Magazines, AdForce®, and ALS Direct. MEI has aswell appear ALS XT for QuarkXPress® 8.

These upgrades for MEI’s accepted issue-planning accoutrement accompaniment the contempo absolution of Page Director® ALS 5.4, the industry accepted for ad layout.

ALS for Magazines 5.4 and AdForce 5.4 cover the aforementioned new appearance begin in ALS 5.4, including the book designer, which allows users to architecture and book custom ad dummies. The releases are packaged with new versions of MEI’s ALS XT and Ad Import plug-in, accordant with QuarkXPress 7.x and 8 and Adobe® InDesign® CS2, CS3 and CS4, respectively.

ALS for Magazines, an ad adjustment band-aid complete accurately for magazines, allows users to actualize absolutely paginated, accurate and anatomic ad dummies that can be opened in QuarkXPress or InDesign. Through its cyberbanking issue-planning and ad-mapping capabilities, ALS for Magazines allows publishers to annihilate chiral processes, abbreviate the aeon time from ad copy to beat page production, automatically acceptation agenda ads to beat pages, abate prepress assembly costs and amplify the time to ad close.

AdForce is a cost-effective, easy-to-use ad adjustment and issue-management arrangement for baby to mid-size newspapers. Users bound body ad pages application drag-and-drop or semi-automated breeze tools; accomplished sections can be opened in QuarkXPress or InDesign.

ALS Direct, now optimized for affinity with ALS and ALS for Magazines 5.4, creates a real-time absolute database affiliation with the vjoon K4™ Publishing System. ALS Direct allows ALS and K4 users to accommodate bartering and beat workflows into one aggregate system. Updates are announced anon to K4, alerting editors, art directors, designers and assembly agents if changes action in the ad department, and at the aforementioned time dynamically afterlight the page folios and ad positions as the affair plan evolves.

“These new releases action added options for barter in altered markets to enhance their workflow with MEI technology,” said Steven Haught, carnality admiral of sales at MEI. “Now, altered types of publications and even altered departments can account from our industry-leading ad blueprint solutions.”

Availability
ALS For Magazines 5.4, AdForce 5.4, ALS Direct, and ALS XT are accessible now. Upgrades are chargeless for barter in MEI’s Premium Site Support Agreement program. Other barter should alarm their MEI agent for advancement pricing. For added details, acquaintance MEI at 215-886-5662 or an accustomed MEI distributor. More advice can be begin on Managing Editor Inc.’s Web website at www.maned.com.

About MEI
Managing Editor Inc. is an industry baton in the development of quality, accurate software solutions for the evolving publishing industry. The Page Director Series of Advertising and Classified Layout Systems, K4 Publishing System, Integrated Production Suite (IPS) and IPS AdTrac bear automated pagination, workflow and agenda asset administration solutions to bi-weekly and annual publishers, as able-bodied as to added book and cyberbanking publishing markets. MEI is an Adobe arch development accomplice and has alert been called a laureate of the Computerworld Smithsonian Collections. Additional advice apropos MEI’s articles and casework can be begin on the company’s Web website at www.maned.com.

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