Inspire Designer Introduction

IntroductionInspire Designer

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In this presentation you will get a first look at Inspire Designer. Thisis a basic overview of the main functionality and a general introductionto the product.

Main product benefits

What Can Be Done in Inspire Designer

Solution samples

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Agenda

Inspire Designer is a second-generation document compositionsolution with limitless possibilities.

Single environment, all-in-one tool

True GUI interface capabilities to empower non-technical users

Visual job flow

Scripting option for power-users

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What is Inspire Designer

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Let's have a look at what Inspire Designer is. Inspire designer is a composition product for document designing, data processing, impositioning, proofing and final production. Thanks to its limitless possibilities including scripting Inspire Designer can be connected or integrated with different products to provide various specific customized solutions covering all a customer's needs. Inspire Designer's graphical user interface allows even non-technical users to create highly professional looking documents.

Intuitive workflow and document design

Open standards

Platform independence (MS Windows, Linux, MacOS, Unix,z/OS)

Printer resolution and independence

Highest quality (ISO and CMMI)

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Main Product Benefits

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Intuitive workflow and document design. Every document, created in Inspire Designer consists of a document design and its data work flow. Work flow in Inspire Designer is displayed intuitively and the document can be designed by users of all skill levels. Inspire Designer is based on open standards. This means that it can be clearly and simply integrated into any existing environment at customers site. Platform independence (MS Windows, MacOS, Linux, Unix, z/OS). Inspire Designer is also a platform independent application therefore it is very flexible and scalable. Printer resolution and independence. Maintenance of production in Inspire designer offers maximal flexibility. Production parameters can be adjusted very quickly and easily according to particular device requirements. Highest quality (ISO, CMMI). ISO and CMMI certificates are signs of quality stability and performance reliability of Inspire Designer.

E-DesignsDatabasepublishing

Transactionaldocuments

Promotionaldocuments

SMSBooks / bookletsBillsPostcardsE-mailCatalogsInvoicesLettersTwitterManualsInvestment documentsFlyersFacebookBrochuresFinancial statementsFund raisingHTML cataloqueMembership kitsPoliciesLoyalty programs

Transactional Marketing Documents(Transpromo)

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What Can Inspire Designer Do

Sample Use Cases

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Letters & Postcards

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Letters and postcards as promotional or informative documents. Their designs can contain images, shapes, static or variable text, tables, barcodes, data values, etc. And can also be variable formatted, and personalized for each customer according to the input data.

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Transactional Documents

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Transactional documents as an overview of customer services or transactions: The design is variable. You can first use a welcome page and then a list of transactions. The list can overflow to more pages.

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Transpromo Solutions

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A Transpromo solution as an effective combination of transactional and promotional documents: Selected white spaces on transactional documents are dedicated for specially created banners. Banners can be controlled by special conditions. Banners can also appear conditionally according to amount of white space e.g. at the end of transactions list.

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Membership Kits & Catalogs

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Membership kits, catalogs, brochures, booklets and other special documents usually have unique and nonstandard sizes and designs. Through impositioning modules it is possible to compose the design very effectively according to printing media (paper) size.

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HTML Catalogues

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Online personalized HTML catalogues allows creating customized offers to users, based on consumer information in customer databases. These catalogues are targeted directly towards customers needs and consumer habit. Inspire Designer serves as the tool, where the HTML catalogue template is designed, and customer data is mapped to the HTML catalogue.

In this presentation you have learned

what Inspire Designer is

what are its main benefits

about some of Inspire Designer's use cases

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Summary

Try to answer following questions:

1. What is Transpromo?

2. What other applications or plugins Inspire Designer requiresfor proofing and production?

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Discussion

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1. Transpromo is a combination of transactional and promotional document. Whitespace in a promotional document is filled by personalized adverts or banners. 2. Document proofing and production configuration are parts of Inspire Designer. There are no additional applications required.

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