• Project Managers serving as internal representatives of clients.
• Troubleshooting and resolving issues in production.
• Review pages and ensure best of quality and schedule fidelity.

Copyediting

• Both language and technical editing.
• Editors proficient in hard copy and online edits.
• Adept to Chicago Manual of Style, APA, AMA and other standards.

Proofreading

• Check for style, consistency and technical aspects.
• Color proofing and soft proofing.
• Word-to-word proofing with the final copyedited manuscript.
• PDF compare to avoid any introduced errors.

Indexing

• Exposure to different types of indexes from medical, nursing, mass market, trade to science, engineering and management.
• Emphasis on conceptual and direct entries.

We use:

• InDesign
  • Efficient template creation of complex titles.
  • Cover designs including four colour jobs.
  • Graphics team to take care of arts: halftones, re-labels and redrawings.
• QuarkXpress
• LaTex

As a full support service, we also offer content enhancements with

• Artwork generation
• Artwork retouching
• Labeling
• Cover design
• Scanning of lines and tones

We think of design as more than just a pretty wall flower. Good designs makes reading a pleasurable experience. Fresh designs are always done as per the suggestions provided by the publisher and in-house team. Sample pages, design sample, and live sample are differentiated and ensured as a deliverable.

ARCHIVING
The set standards are followed as per the publisher guidelines. In-house archiving standards are developed for customer ease and support. All Archiving is done for the projects handled.

• Enhances the book content in accordance with the requirements of the target audience and market.
• Perspective and orientation developing a book with
  • Relevant and live case-studies, up-to-date examples from the real world.
  • Content that is acceptable across the broad spectrum.
  • Pedagogy suitable and lively to generate.
  • Create and sustain interest and improving the presentability of the book from a designer's perspective.
• Competitive and syllabi oriented research.
• Expert panel of subject matter experts as authors/professors from various streams.
• Specialize in engineering and management streams.
• Supplements: CD-ROM, Instructors Resource Manual, Student Resource Manual, Companion Website and the likes.

• Expert panel of translators to cater to the needs of English to Foreign Languages and vice-versa.
• English to Hindi/regional languages and vice-versa translations.
  • All levels of books and articles.

Data conversion from paper to electronic formats comes in handy when we require instant information retrieval and archival with lesser storage space. We can handle data conversions from existing formats to any given formats. At County Caramels, we offer data conversiion in the following formats

• Quark Xpress to PDF
• Indesign to PDF
• Adobe PageMaker to PDF
• MA Word to PDF
• HTML, SML or SGML to PDF
• Hard copy (Handwritten or printouts) to PDF

Customized Quality Control
In addition to our in-house quality control measures, we integrate client-specific quality checks / measures into our existing systems to facilitate publisher specific guidelines into our competency models.

Multiple Quality Checks
Quality checks are performed at each and every stage to ensure quality deliverables by dedicated teams of experienced and highly-skilled professionals. This is done in addition to the final quality assurance that happens before the final deliverable is made to the client.