Easypress has always recognised the importance of consistent and well-styled manuscripts. From early in the publishing process to checking final content ready for publication, styling is a vitally important step.

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By providing market-leading digital publishing solutions to global publishers, Easypress has developed high-value workflow tools to lower your book production costs.

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Atomik eStylist is a market-leading digital application for rapidly and accurately styling manuscripts. Easypress’ Atomik eStylist platform is a smart application –using configurable style sets and predictive analytics to suggest appropriate styles for your manuscript.

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Atomik eStylist was developed to provide a user-friendly styling application for both large- and small-scale publishers. Since its launch, the Easypress software developers release regular updates to keep up with the needs of its users.

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Lightning-fast, Atomik eStylist can style a 320-page Word manuscript in under one minute – giving a 15:1 reduction in styling time, compared to traditional styling methods such as macros or shortcuts!

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Atomik eStylist is the cumulation of many years of hard work, with our software developers listening carefully to feedback from editorial teams across the sector.

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Monday 19th February 2024 – Easypress announces the launch of the latest version of Atomik eStylist!

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In the latest release, Atomik eStylist 2024, can semi-automatically check manuscripts against The Daisy Corporation’s accessibility standards while allowing users to add and edit image alt-text.

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Additional new and improved features include:

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• The chapter pane can now show tables, full paragraph pictures and time breaks as icons for ease of navigation. Full paragraph pictures that do not have alt-text set (required for accessibility) will be indicated with a warning triangle, for user attention.

• Manual Mode style inspector now allows users to apply style “sequences” to contiguous multi-paragraph selections (subject to style sequences being defined in the genre; they are not yet user-editable).

• New pre-styling action to normalise white space around footnote and endnote references.

• The document information displayed in the assisted tab now shows whether the document contains “track changes” information and provides a button to “accept all” tracked changes.

• User preference in General tab to “accept all track changes” automatically when a document is opened.

• The document information displayed in Assisted tab now shows whether the document contains index markers or cross-references.

• The chapter auto detect “accept checked” action can be configured by the genre configuration to perform text replacements, such as removing certain instructions in the text of the document.

• You can now find empty paragraphs using regex facility in Find pane using a search string of “^$”.

• Interactively choose between “Strict” and “Loose” similarity matching in Assisted Mode.

• The document Information displayed in Assisted now shows whether the document contains drop caps and provides button to convert them to regular text.

• New pre-styling action to convert drop caps to regular text.

• The document Information displayed in Assisted now shows whether the document contains very long words (over 40 characters).

• New menu item to find next paragraph containing a very long word (over 40 characters).

• Apply paragraph styles in tables to specific custom cells and ranges.

• Clearly see which table cells contain allowed paragraph styles using red/green Styles colouring tables view option.

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‍Easypress is a publishing production software and services company based in the UK, delivering award-winning technology globally for over 25 years. ‍

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‍If you would like to learn more about the productivity improvements Atomik eStylist 2024 could bring to your production workflow, please contact us here.

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‍Alternatively, to book a face-to-face meeting with one of our team at the London Book Fair 2024, visit our meeting calendar.