Overview

Features

Advantages

Requirements

Demos

The GLUON HyperPublishing System (HPS) is an easy-to-deploy, highly configurable solution which puts the power at your fingertips to create customized, design-rich documents that can be dynamically changed on the fly...using only a web browser! This advanced system leverages the state-of-the-art document rendering engine of QuarkXPress Server technology for unsurpassed quality, speed, accuracy and throughput. With HyperCommerce, GLUON's Web Storefront you can be up and running with a real-world Web2Print solution in no time at all. The HyperPublishing System enables you and/or your customers to produce professionally designed, targeted publications (for print and web delivery) faster and more cost-effectively. GLUON clients have revolutionized their publishing workflows with this rock solid software, using it to render thousands of pages per day—without a hitch. The HyperPublishing System can do the same for your business as well, saving you impressive amounts of time and money day in and day out.

Advantages over other systems:

• Easier to deploy
• Less costly to maintain
• More advanced technology
• Based on open standards
• Better performance and scalability

Suggested uses for The HyperPublishing System include:

• On demand creation of all manner of print-ready materials
• Brand control for advertising, direct mail, etc.
• Variable database-driven documents for advertising, direct mail, etc.
• Intranet, in-house production system or Internet ordering system
• Circulars, catalogs and flyers
• Educational materials
• Corporate forms, collateral and cards
• Localized and personalized documents
• Newsletters, magazines and newspapers
• Technical documentation
• Books

Businesses that Use The HyperPublishing System include:

• Fortune 500 Companies
• Advertising Agencies
• Print Service Providers
• Real Estate Publishers
• Specialty Marketing Firms
• Marketing Communications Firms
• Direct Mail Agencies

The GLUON HyperPublishing System (HPS) uses countless innovations to solve all types of publishing "problems." From the very first step of creating dynamic documents using HyperTemplate™ XT you'll see the GLUON difference. GLUON has been making XTensions for over 17 years and unlike most of our competitors we do things from the inside out. This gives you more power, more automation and more choices. Other systems use proprietary and often awkward rendering engines and template creation methods. We use QuarkXPress Server as an engine and regular QuarkXPress to make templates (though you can make them online as well)...ensuring full publishing power, not some subset that comes from "reinventing the wheel."

You define which parts of a publication are dynamic or editable. This assures that product brand integrity is secure and that legal copy and the like are not altered by an end user. With online interactive editing, you can setup elegant, form-based interaction or use the DirectEdit™ module to enable text and picture changes directly in a publication preview. If you need more advanced interfaces, we also offer flash-based interfaces that have the same professional look and feel across all browsers.

The GLUON difference becomes more apparent when it comes to database-driven, automated page construction, where the HyperMatrix™, HyperDesign™ and HyperContent™ modules provide a brand new, highly efficient way to work. Our solution, referred to by some as "object-oriented publishing" has broken publishing down into it's logical, common denominator "objects" which allows you to create design-rich documents from complex data sources.

The HyperPublishing System out-of-the-box includes:

• HyperTemplate XT — A cross-platform QuarkXPress XTension used to create intelligent templates from ordinary QuarkXPress documents. It works with both HyperRender and HyperDocument. It also uploads templates to the QuarkXPress Server. It creates ready-to-go HTML forms with cascading style sheets for testing templates so you can deploy new web-to-print instances in seconds! Or you can upload to the store or the intranet system with one click creating all required entries in the database right from Quark. This functionality can't be touched by competitors and puts us miles ahead!
• HyperRender SXT — A cross-platform QuarkXPress Server XTension which understands all the rules applied to a HyperTemplate and renders documents accordingly. It can be used to create anything from simple cards to complex multi-page technical documentation and catalogs. Full control over every aspect of design is provided, from text to colors to drop shadows, opacity and much more. With over 1 million lines of code, HyperRender accepts well over 300 commands and has all the advanced features you won't find anywhere else including:
  
  
  • HyperFit — Sophisticated, powerful text and picture fitting unequalled in the industry with box-level control of minimums and maximums.
  • HyperPreview — As you work online, HyperRender can send back perfect JPEG or PNG preview at the compression, size and in color space you want creating a "live" experience. Toggle overflow indicators on/off. We also have advanced XML based previews to help create a truly interactive online experience.
  • Design Overrides — No matter what's on your template, if you need to you can change box colors, opacity, add shadows and much more.
  • HyperScale — Resize templates to any proportion without distorting text or graphics. The same template can be rendered at thousands of sizes.
  • HyperGrids (Dynamic Zones) — A smart grid system where blank spaces on a template can be populated with mathematically perfect grids filled with blocks that contain repeating or different "mini-layouts" . Dynamic Zones can also flow content into columns or zig-zag patterns.
  • gTags — An incredibly easy text tagging technology that allows advanced formatting of text down to the character level.
  • GLUON Template XML Backbone (GTXML) — HyperPublishing relies heavily on the open standard of XML so that the process of transferring critical information about templates and content is as understandable, flexible and efficient as possible.
  • Conditional Content — Boxes on a page can be made to auto-delete if no data is sent to them and text can be made to delete other text such as unneeded bullets and spaces based on what is sent or not sent.
  • HyperAdjust — The ability to have conditional content which "magically" reacts to other content that gets sent or not sent
  • HyperAlign — In addition to HyperAdjust, further ability to maintain critical alignments when changing data is sent...an Art Director's dream.
  • HyperTables — Populate any region on a page with smart, self-fitting tables of any level of sophistication imaginable with shading and spans.
  • Area of Interest — A GLUON invention which allows you to select an area of an image that is most important so that when the same image is repurposed to different size boxes, it always maximizes the Area of Interest...better than cropping.
  • Super Templates — Make synchronized changes to multiple layouts at the same time all in one template. Example: update a business card, an envelope, a letterhead and a mechanical layout with a single input.
  • Layer Control — Show and hide layers as needed for maximum flexibility in template usage...getting more out of less.
  • HyperSlugs — Add slugs in the margins of documents with pertinent metadata
  • OPI Support — Swap in hi-res graphics for final output and work with efficient lo-res during editing
  • Unlimited Output Styles — Call by name from a preset list all manner of PDF and EPS output styles including PDF/X-1a and PFD/X3 or override settings on the fly
  • Output to Order—At the end of the process, browser users or designated file servers can receive a finished, collected Quark file, PDF, TIFF, EPS, PNG, PPML, JPEG, XML, HTML or other formats, cutting the design/print process to a fraction of the time it normally takes.

Additional Modules Available:

• HyperContent — A scalable, easy-to-use content management system based on open-standard MySQL and PHP which creates thumbnails and FPO images when original art (.eps, .tif, .psd, .jpg, etc.) is uploaded and metadata is entered. Comes with a flash-based image browser. Database publishing made easy.
• HyperCommerce — An intuitive, easy-to-maintain storefront for printers and those working with printers based on open standards. Comes complete with Store Admin, WorkSpace and many features.
• HyperMatrix — An intuitive interface for managing and creating multiple versions of publications. Each version can be populated with its specific copy and pictures and even resized before final output to server as uniquely named Quark or PDF files.
• HyperDesign — A powerful online design tool with snap-to guides, grids and intuitive database linking tools. Designs can be used as blocks on a larger page using HyperGrid or HyperFlow, a whole page or as a new template.
• HyperImage — A flash-based online tool for non-destructively editing an image's metadata that travels with the image including Area of Interest, flipping, rotation and more.
• HyperStyle — This flash-based module enables the fine control of text on a character level. Fully control the font, size, scaling, color and position of individual letters.
• HyperCharts — This stand-alone server module creates publishing-ready PDFs of pie, bar, line and area charts.
• HyperSite — This stand-alone server module creates entire web sites based on templates with easy to use XML input.
• HyperStitch — This Server XTension module allows you to gather together various documents and combine them in a single Quark or PDF output file.
• HyperTables Online — Leveraging years of experience in table creation, we've created an amazing online table editor that allows you to paste Excel data into your browser and then tweak a few settings to create perfect, stylized tables with column and row spans taken care of too.
• HyperTemplate Online — We've taken the power and simplicity of our Quark XTension and allowed users to simply upload a raw XPress document and then "tag" it online after which it is ready to be used by the system.
• DirectEdit™ — This makes online publishing fun. Roll your mouse over a live preview, see boxes highlight and click on them to edit the document directly.
• Custom — Because we are skilled developers and work comfortably in the following list of languages/environments you can be assured if it can be done, we can do it: C, C++, Java, Flex, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, Ajax, MySQL, Mac OS, Win OS, more.

Finally, our software is invented, produced and supported in America. When you talk to us we'll be on the same page (and in the same hemisphere) as you.

Main advantages over other systems:

• Easier to deploy, with less technical knowledge
• Less costly to maintain in IT costs and design costs and annual fees
• More advanced technology, in ways the competition hasn't even yet imagined
• Based on open standards: XML, PHP, MySQL, OS Commerce, QuarkXPress
• Better performance and scalability: high-speed rendering with high reliability over millions of renders

The HyperPublishing System (HPS) will empower your organization with many advantages:

• It will provide your company greater revenue generation possibilities, realized through increased marketing faculty or new revenue stream opportunities based on cutting-edge capabilities and new service offerings.
• Do much more in drastically less time, slashing labor expense as you go.
• Augment client communication and fast-track client approval.
• Accelerate publication time-to-market.
• It will supply the means to complete projects— once considered impossible— through immense time and expense reduction.
• It will provide your enterprise with powerful collaboration capabilities, on a global basis.
• It will enable you to automate labor intensive, time consuming processes, and reduce overhead on an ongoing basis.
• It will ensure strict adherence to style and production guidelines for a consistent product
• It will give your company a competitive edge.
• Easily incorporate designs from native Quark documents or convert InDesign documents easily to the system

HyperPublishing System Advantages:

• GLUON goes far beyond the basic capabilities that are to be expected from Web2Print solutions. This makes our system ideal for servicing not only consumers but business-to-business customers as well.
• Technologies such as intelligent copy fitting, table formatting, elastic pages, advanced text formatting and long document handling set GLUON aside from our would be competitors.
• HyperTemplate XT enables straightforward template creation and created web-ready forms with HTML or PHP with picture upload enabled.
• Over 300 commands can be used on-the-fly to give maximum configurability to end-user options
• Advanced GLUON copy and picture fitting options cover any possible needs.
• Adjustment process can be used to dynamically move boxes or sides of boxes relative to other boxes when different content is used.
• Templates can be rigid or flexible to satisfy different needs for various workflows.
• HyperImage module enables control over image characteristics and geometry via metadata
• No additional per-template cost because based on normal Quark docs and easy to create.
• Create publications via user-based interaction in a browser or fully automate page builds from a defined asset list.
• HyperGrids and HyperDesign Modules enable design-rich, automated structured, page construction in conjunction with HyperContent.
• HyperContent Module based on PHP and MySQL, powerful open standards with very small overhead costs and bright future (can use alternative DBs with minor modifications)
• Unique DirectEdit module enables dynamic changes to preview, complete with text formatting and picture upload...like having a simple-to-use Quark on-line.
• Unique HyperScale resizing technology built in: enables document scaling to non-constrained proportions with no distortion. One template can be used for lots of sizes.
• Unique HyperMarkup module enables comments, change requests and approvals on a document from different geographical locations.
• Advanced support for multi-page and multi-layout publications (SuperTemplates)
• Fully customizable and configurable to meet unique requirements.
• Highly modular system that enables you to tailor the system to your exact requirements. You invest only in the modules you'll use without wasting money for options you'll never need or use.
• HyperMatrix Module enables easy-to-use variable-data document versioning (integrated with HyperTemplate XT). Creates a matrix for variable data that is document specific so parameters are defined per document requirements.
• Full control over output: both back-to-browser and save-to-server types.

QuarkXPress Server Advantages:

• Templates are easily created from everyday QuarkXPress documents. Users need not sacrifice design integrity...no proprietary formats or unfamiliar interfaces to deal with.
• QuarkXPress multiple layouts with Synchronized Text and Pictures enable "super templates." This means that content can be dynamically changed in multiple documents at the same time. For instance, an end-user could input information for a business card template, and that information would be automatically flowed into letterhead and envelope templates at the same time.
• True WYSIWYG. When a user views a proof, it is a jpg or a pdf of the finished QuarkXPress document. It is not an approximation rendered with flash or a java applet.
• Robust load-balancing server software with sub-renderers for maximum simultaneous document production.
• Built on open industry standards, ensuring an enduring return-on-investment.
• Transparency, drop shadows, ICC color management, PPML and all Quark 7 features
• You always get the latest version automatically too built into reasonable maintenance cost.
• Many more!

GLUON Advantage...You Get a Smart Team Too
Working closely with the Quark development team, GLUON is offers start to finish consulting services which can help you in solving problems and implementing this exciting technology. Not only can we help you to get up and running, but we can leverage our vast experience in XTension development (going back to 1990), database connectivity and publishing to give incredible new capabilities to your on-line publishing system, allowing customers around the world or internal personnel to create publications to your specifications. We become your partner...and that's a great thing because our motto is "Surpass Expectations."

Mac OS
Software:

• Mac OS X version 10.3.2 or higher. OS X server will require 10.3.3 or higher
• QuarkXPress Server software
• Quark® License Administrator (included)
• Apache Web Server w/ PHP module (if database module desired)
• MySQL (if database module desired)

Hardware:

• PowerPC G4 (at least 500 MHz). Dual-processor G5 or Xserve recommended for heavy load.
• 512MB available RAM
• 40GB available hard drive space
• TCP/IP network support (Application will listen on a configurable TCP/IP network socket and implement HTTP 1.0 protocols for socket connections.)

Windows
Software:

• Windows 2000/XP or Windows 2003 Server
• QuarkXPress Server software
• Quark® License Administrator (included)
• Apache Web Server w/ PHP module (if database module desired)
• MySQL (if database module desired)

Hardware:

• Pentium 4 or comparable Windows-capable CPU (at least 800 MHz). Dual processor recommended for heavy load
• 512MB available RAM
• 40GB available hard drive space
• TCP/IP network support (Application will listen on a configurable TCP/IP network socket and implement HTTP 1.0 protocols for socket connections.)

These demos make up a partial sampling of the power available to you with the HyperPublishing System (HPS). They were selected for their ease of use and immediacy. However, the nuts and bolts of HPS are better viewed with an expert guide. These include a storefront, database publishing, asset management, versioning tools and much more.

Please call 973-763-9494 to arrange for a personal WebEx tour of these and other features not shown here...which is most of our system! Live demos are a highly effective way to quickly learn about HPS and can usually be arranged within 48 hours or on your desired schedule. We can also discuss how we've helped other companies revolutionize their publishing workflows using HPS.

NOTE: These online live demos are subject to server availability. If you get an error or pages are not produced when expected, it's because the server is probably down for service or development. Contact GLUON at the number above if you experience a problem.