Dolce Vita Media Solutions
Unprecedented Ease and Quality
| At Van Gennep we understand the creative, design and publishing business
environment you work in. We know the major challenges you face on a daily
basis, so we have developed a solution specifically to help you solve
these issues and enable you to work easier, smarter and more efficiently. Dolce Vita Plan is Van Gennep’s stand-alone publication design tool, designed as a flexible, easy-to-use, affordable desktop solution, developed for free- lance publishers and small creative groups. |
Off-the-Shelf Capabilities
As an off-the-shelf product that requires no operator training, Dolce Vita Plan enables users to enjoy the following key benefits, from day one:
- Simple operation – File based, no workflow system or database necessary
- Improved productivity – Streamlined production process
- Time and money savings – Less production time.
Reduced production time saves money
Available for both Macintosh® and Microsoft® Windows® platforms,
Dolce Vita Plan helps you to save time and money by eliminating many of the
manual processes associated with traditional publication production and design
packages.
Dolce Vita Plan also removes the need for connections to larger online systems,
servers and databases. Enabling you to work locally, either alone or in small
groups, Dolce Vita Plan streamlines production of magazines and other magazine-like
publications, allowing you to enjoy ‘the good life’. Downloadable
from the Internet, Dolce Vita Plan is the first product from Van
Gennep’s new Dolce Vita Media Solutions product line. The product uses
functionality designed for Van Gennep’s PlanSystem3, a successful planning,
process and workflow management system for large publishing houses. Based on
PlanSystem3’s well-established technology, Dolce Vita Plan is already
enabling many users across Europe to enjoy time and money savings.
Edition Planning
Dolce Vita Plan offers an easy to use edition planning tool, for creating
and maintaining your edition plan/flat plan. The tool enables you to tailor
your plan based on signatures (numerals assigned to each section to show correct
sequencing), plan your pages and assign existing layouts.
In addition, Dolce Vita Plan offers you a graphic display of all your pages/elements
(for instance editorial, advertising, marketing) and real time space calculation.
You can also track the production progress through thumbnails of the pages
displayed, as they move through the production cycle.
Benefits
- Create and maintain edition plans
- Available for both Macintosh and Windows
- Create and maintain editions by drag and drop
- Import and place ad lists
- View publications based on live previews
- View live statistics of advertising to editorial ratios
- Catch conflicting pages as they occur
Work easier, smarter and more efficiently, and give yourself the chance to enjoy ‘the good life’ with Dolce Vita.
Contact us to find out more!
System Requirements
Dolce Vita Media Solutions have been developed for use on a range of platforms (Macintosh® and Microsoft® Windows®) and require the following software environment:
- Macintosh® OS X version 10.4 and higher • Microsoft® Windows® 98 and upwards
- PreviewXT for QuarkXPress® 6.x and upwards, Mac OS X and Windows®
- Preview Plug-in for Adobe InDesign® CS2 and upwards, Mac OS X and Windows ®
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