At diacriTech, our Project Managers work with the publisher to determine their requirements and priorities. Based on the information provided, they take full responsibility to ensure that all aspects of the production cycle are managed effectively, within budget and that files are delivered on time to the printer. Their responsibilities include setting schedules, hiring freelancers, monitoring the progress of titles, and effectively communicating with the authors, the technical staff and the publisher.

Our team of Project Managers is trained and managed by a US based team leader with extensive experience in the book and journal industry. The team is supported by an Online Project Tracking System which tracks schedules, author queries and identifies potential problems before they occur.

diacriTech has a large workforce of highly qualified staff with experience in various tools used for composition and related services. Composition services are available for several European languages like German, French, and Spanish.

The following software are used for providing these services in Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms:

- TeX, LaTeX
- QuarkXpress {Autopage, XMath (Mathables), Tableworks, PowerMath}
- Adobe InDesign CS {InMath, InCopy, (K4)}
- Adobe FrameMaker
- Corel Ventura
- Arbortext 3B2
- Composition directly from Database, SGML / XML / MathML

With streamlined processes diacriTech is able to meet the strictest of schedules while maintaining the highest quality.

Illustrations, Image Research, and Rights Management

diacriTech specializes in complex art services, including science, technical, medical and math illustrations. Illustrations, correction of halftones, scanning and redrawing of artwork is done using:

- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- CorelDraw
- Macromedia Freehand
- ChemDraw Ultra
- TeX

diacriTech handles image research and rights management. The rights can be tracked using internal systems or using publisher provided tools. The manuscript, the project criteria and budget are reviewed initially and work closely with the editor in selecting the appropriate images for the book. diacriTech maintains all required logs for rights management.

Our editorial staff come from various backgrounds and have several years of experience in writing, editing, accuracy checking, and permissions management. The editorial staff works closely with all other departments to ensure that the end product is of the highest quality.

diacriTech copyediting ensures proper spelling, grammar, punctuation and usage while maintaining consistent style and tone, with emphasis on succinct phrasing and language. Our editors follow The Oxford Guide to Style or Chicago Manual of Style, and in-house style guides as requested by the publisher. The Oxford English Dictionary is used as a source of reference, and the stylistic rules contained in the Oxford Guide to Style or the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors. Copyediting can be done electronically in Microsoft Word or on paper.

Translation services are handled by an expert team of translators, interpreters, proofreaders and quality assurance managers. In most cases, jobs are handled by subject matter experts in their native language. The staff are kept up to date with terminology in their domain expertise.

Soft cover and dust jacket design services are provided in two or four colors. Eye catching and subject relevant designs are made possible by working with the editor or author. The cover designers are kept up to date on available technologies to help design unique covers.

Indexing services create high quality back-of-the-book indexes for non-fiction books, including scholarly, science, technical, medical, law, and business books following style guidelines from the publisher. Combined with extensive training and experience, our indexers can take on even the most highly challenging of jobs with ease.