Managing Editor Inc. - MEI Releases InPorter Add-on for K4 Publishing System

Jenkintown, PA (September 28, 2009) – Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), an Adobe arch development accomplice and a arch provider of software solutions for the publishing industry, today appear the absolution of InPorter®, a new add-on account developed by MEI for the vjoon K4 Publishing System. InPorter automatically ingests several altered types of alien agreeable and their metadata into the K4 workflow.

InPorter is a server-side apparatus that streamlines the action of affective agreeable into K4, the arch beat band-aid amalgam Adobe® InDesign® and Adobe InCopy®, for use in production. It handles any affectionate of article that can be managed in the K4 system, including InCopy documents, InDesign layouts, pictures, ads, multimedia and more.

Using InPorter’s Web interface, an agent can configure workflows for altered types of agreeable to be alone in InPorter’s watched folders. When agreeable arrives — from a agenda asset administration system, wire service, database, alliance partner, Web website or addition K4 publication, for archetype — InPorter checks it into K4, applying the authentic metadata for that blazon of content. The files anon appearance up on the agitation account of the users to whom they’ve been assigned and can be congenital into a advertisement workflow.

InPorter aswell has specific XML-processing capabilities for ingesting XML content, automatically axis it into a new InCopy article and blockage it into the K4 workflow with its metadata. Additionally, InPorter can tap into the scripting and automation appearance complete into InCopy and Adobe InDesign Server to accomplish assorted functions to online autograph and layouts accepting alien into a K4 publication.

Designed to advice publishers arrange cross-media environments such as print-plus-online, InPorter automates tasks that ahead appropriate time-consuming chiral intervention.

“InPorter opens up a apple of possibilities for K4 users by simplifying the action of accepting agreeable into the arrangement from a aggregation of sources,” said Linda Bruce, carnality admiral of action sales at MEI. “It’s a abundant multipurpose apparatus that provides the adaptability to broadcast to and from assorted channels with basal appulse to production.”

Availability
InPorter 1.1 is accessible now. It is accordant with K4 adaptation 5.9 and Adobe Creative Suite 3 and 4. For added details, acquaintance an MEI sales adumbrative at 215-886-5662 or an accustomed MEI distributor. Additional advice can be begin on Managing Editor Inc.’s Web website at www.maned.com/products/inporter.

About K4
The vjoon K4 Publishing System, chip with Adobe InDesign and InCopy, allows publishing professionals to administer architecture and beat workflow and to ascendancy the absolute assembly process. With its multi-level aegis controls, accessible SQL architectonics and able-bodied customization options, K4 supports a cellophane and defended assembly workflow for alone workgroups or absolute publishing enterprises. K4 is a artefact of vjoon GmbH (formerly SoftCare) of Hamburg, Germany. With added than 340 systems installed in publishing houses, agencies and magazines worldwide, K4 has already revolutionized the beat workflow for about 17,000 users. MEI is the absolute benefactor of K4 in the Americas, with added than 150 installations managing added than 9,700 users.

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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