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InnoCielo Publisher

InnoCielo Publisher is an optional add-on to InnoCielo Meridian Enterprise which automates the rendering and publishing of engineering content in various formats.

Engineering content is in continuous change. Drawings, data, technical asset information, related files and other documents are created, updated, reviewed, released, revised and archived. At certain points in their lifecycle engineering documents must be handed over to other departments within the organization, or stakeholders outside the organization. In many companies this is a cumbersome, manual or unstructured process.

In the publishing process engineering documents are converted into readable formats, replacing outdated copies and stored in systems where other people can find and access the information.

InnoCielo Publisher makes it possible to automate such rendering and publishing processes, triggered by predefined document lifecycle events or on an ad-hoc basis.

New Features in InnoCielo Publisher 2008

InnoCielo Publisher 2008 comes with the following enhancements:

Queue Management

InnoCielo Meridian Enterprise users can access the publishing queue from the PowerUser or OfficeUser desktop clients, allowing publishing jobs to be viewed, restarted and cancelled.

Generic PDF Rendering

This module can render documents in most popular CAD (AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, MicroStation, SolidWorks), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, TXT, HTML), image (JPG, PNG, RLC, BMP, TIF, PCX etc) and fax (CAL, GP4, MIL, RAS) formats into the standard Adobe PDF format.

Vista Support

InnoCielo Publisher can be run from all supported Windows operating system environments, including Windows Vista.

General Improvements

Tracing, logging and error handling have been enhanced to greatly improve stability and traceability.

The InnoCielo Publisher 2008 release can be further enhanced with the following new modules:

PDF Merge module

This module allows multiple documents in different source formats and linked by references or properties to be consolidated into a single PDF rendering. This is particularly useful for documents such as assemblies and sets of project documentation.

Developer module

This module allows one to develop and use custom rendering and publishing options. This module in combination with the InnoCielo Publisher Standard Edition replaces the InnoCielo Publisher Framework.

In addition to the new modules above, standard InnoCielo Publisher modules are available for native rendering from AutoCAD, Inventor and Microsoft Office, and for publishing to InnoCielo Meridian Enterprise, the Windows file system and SmartZIP. New modules for publishing to Microsoft SharePoint and Documentum are anticipated soon.

“InnoCielo Publisher is a useful extension to InnoCielo Meridian Enterprise which we currently use to manage about 280,000 technical documents. InnoCielo Publisher provides us with a standard approach to the high volume printing of our project documentation and integrates with our system to produce neutral PDFs for easy distribu-tion. With InnoCielo Meridian Enterprise at the front end, InnoCielo Publisher operates invisibly in the background and sends our publishing require-ments to our servers in a wholly automated process, cutting out the need for manual, time-consuming effort.”

– Alan Painter, Business Manager – Secondary Systems, AREVA T&D Systems