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Fully Automate Your Directory Publishing System with Merlin Merlin's versatile and powerful logic is capable of producing fully paginated pages at a rate of up to 60,000 pages per hour! That translates into huge production increases and the ability to ad or change anything in your directory up to the last minute. Just imagine the possibilities. Signature overruns? Simply adjust your book's leading or margins slightly and re-page your book in a few moments to save money on your printing costs. Last minute ad? Merlin's speed of pagination enables you to extend your sales canvass and increase revenue. Merlin is a natural extension to Yellow Magic's family of directory publishing products; operating almost invisibly between Yellow Magic, our directory publishing system, and Sleight-of-Hand, our interactive pagination system. Using generic North American pagination rules, Merlin takes the data extracted from Yellow Magic and determines the best page layout. |
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The resulting book is then passed to Sleight-of-Hand, where you can view the pages, and you always have the option to use a little Sleight-of-Hand to fix things up to be just the way you want them. Since Merlin is simply a "black box" to Sleight-of-Hand, the time required to learn Merlin is minimal. Moreover, the Merlin operators have the power of Sleight-of-Hand at their fingertips and can override any of Merlin's decisions and use all of Sleight-of-Hand's features; to finalize your pages. Benefits Signature Control - Reduces or expands the page count to end-up on even signatures in minutes
Extends Sales - With pagination only taking seconds to a couple of minutes, even with manual overrides, time to paginate a book is greatly reduced
What-If Scenarios - Quickly see how changing any typographical parameters such as font size, leading, page size, etc. would affect page count. Get a Demo Today! |
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