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About North Atlantic Publishing Systems, Inc.

Founded in 1989, North Atlantic Publishing Systems, Inc.  is best know for innovation and its excellence in customer service. NAPS develops software for publishers and translation houses in workflow management, editorial systems integration, web based application, and cross-media content preparation.

History: NAPS has a 20-year+ history of providing customized solutions for publishers and language service providers (translation houses). At the 1989 MacWorld Boston NAPS introduced its first product, an XTension to QuarkXPress 2.0 called CopyFlow. The original CopyFlow enabled a layout editor to rapidly assemble and reassemble pages by automating the batch import and batch export of XyWrite text, and automated the batch import of art. CopyFlow was the foundation a series of subsequent products, including today's CopyFlow Gold series, now widely used by translators.

CopyFlow Gold (CFG) is continuously upgraded to the latest versions of QuarkXPress, InDesign and Illustrator - for both Macintosh and Windows. CopyFlow Gold is the workflow recommended by SDL-Trados for round-tripping text to and from QuarkXPress documents. A review in Layers Magazine recently awarded CopyFlow Gold 4.5 out of 5 stars!

Projects:  NAPS built the first desktop workflow system used at Business Week magazine, which managed the workflow of the magazine's pages every week for more than two years. NAPS worked with EDS for several years to create a custom composition system for The Wall Street Journal. NAPS was a pioneer in web-based composition and built one of the first internet web sites to show personalized, web composed proofs of business stationery for New England Business Service (NEBS). NAPS recently added a very popular option to directly round-trip XLIFF (an XML format for translators) to our CopyFlowGold for InDesign.

NAPS built publishing workflow software for: Harper-Collins, Scholastic, Pearson Education, Prentice Hall, The Harvard Business Review, Key3Media and Texas Monthly among others.

Mobile Projects: 

The MyQuizCard a mobile flash card application is also a production of NAPS Inc. MyQuizCard MyQuizCard is a simple flash card app for students using Quizlet.com - the popular flash card web site. With MyQuizCard students can download their flashcards to a mobile device while online for later offline study. MyQuizCard includes a powerful search tool to find relevant flashcards from among the more than 5 million available on Quizlet.com MyQuizCard runs on the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch and is available from the App Store.

Custom Development:  NAPS offers custom development & consulting services for:

• • Quark and InDesign based solutions - server or desktop. We can provide custom Quark XTensions and Adobe InDesign plugins and scripts.
• • Translation houses and LSP's, language service providers.
• • Workflow and document management system customers, vendors and integrators
• • Mobile Applications

Our consulting developers all have more than 10 years experience developing software for small and large projects. Reference are available upon request.

Custom development or consulting services customers include: MediaSpan, Translations.com, Modulo Systems, EPS - Educator's Publishing Service, Multi-Ad, Saxotech, The Boston Globe, Quark Inc., United Methodist Publishing House, Harvard Business School Publishing, Pearson Publishing, GlobalSight, New England Business Service (NEBS) and EDS.

North Atlantic Publishing Systems' offices are located outside Boston, Massachusetts. The company is privately held. CopyFlow™, CopyBridge™ and CopyFlow Gold™ are all trademarks of North Atlantic Publishing Systems Inc.

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