Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to the questions we hear most from publishers, associations, and mission-driven organizations before they start a project with us.
Medlar Publishing Solutions provides typesetting and page composition for publishers, associations, and institutions worldwide, turning raw manuscripts into print-ready, structured layouts. Our team in Thanjavur, India, has handled this work for over 15 years across books, journals, and reports.
Outsourcing typesetting to India offers significant cost efficiency, quick turnaround times, and access to specialized technical expertise. Medlar Publishing Solutions has provided production support for over 15 years, serving publishers, corporates, and content organizations across five continents.
Print-to-ebook conversion involves restructuring content into reflowable, device-optimized formats. Medlar converts publications into industry-standard EPUB formats, preserving layout integrity, accessibility features, and precise formatting across screens and e-readers.
Medlar supports structured manuscript workflows by applying detailed coding and styling to manuscripts for seamless layout in Adobe InDesign. From there, we export clean, validated XML, EPUB, HTML, and print-ready formats. We support major industry schemas and DTDs—including JATS, BITS, NLM, and custom standards—to enable smooth multi-channel distribution.
Accessible PDF remediation involves structural tagging, adding alt text to visuals, setting logical reading orders, and ensuring high contrast so screen readers can interpret documents correctly. Medlar provides accessible PDF remediation aligned with WCAG 2.1 and U.S. Section 508 standards.
Section 508 and WCAG standards ensure digital publications are accessible to individuals with visual or cognitive disabilities. Organizations distributing PDFs, journals, or reports to government bodies, educational institutions, or public audiences must meet these legal and social accessibility mandates.
Yes. Medlar's project management service provides a single point of contact to coordinate every stage of publication—from initial design and typesetting to structural coding, XML conversion, ebook creation, and accessible PDF remediation.
Professional indexing organizes a publication's key topics, concepts, and names into a structured, searchable reference. Medlar creates precise back-of-book and digital indexes to enhance reader usability and research value.
Yes. Our multilingual Desktop Publishing (DTP) services support all Roman-alphabet (Latin-script) languages—including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, and other European languages—across both print and digital outputs. Please note that we focus exclusively on Roman scripts and do not currently support non-Roman scripts, complex Asian characters, or right-to-left (RTL) languages like Arabic or Hebrew.
Yes. Medlar partners with publishers, non-profits, associations, and corporate entities worldwide, delivering end-to-end production support remotely from our central studio in Thanjavur, India.
Medlar Publishing Solutions provides accessible PDF remediation as an outsourced, end-to-end service for nonprofits, associations, and publishers who need WCAG 2.1 and Section 508 compliant documents but don't have in-house accessibility expertise. We handle structural tagging, alt text, reading order, and contrast correction so your team doesn't have to build that capability internally.
Medlar Publishing Solutions offers outsourced JATS, BITS, and NLM XML conversion for scholarly journals, nonprofit publishers, and research institutions that need validated, schema-compliant XML without building an internal production team. Our studio in Thanjavur, India has converted manuscripts to XML for over 15 years.
Look for a partner with direct production experience rather than project brokering, demonstrated accessibility expertise in WCAG and Section 508, support for the specific schemas your workflow needs such as JATS, BITS, or NLM, and a single point of contact across the full production cycle. Medlar Publishing Solutions has provided this kind of end-to-end production support for publishers, nonprofits, and associations for over 15 years.
Medlar Publishing Solutions provides project-based quotes tailored to volume, format complexity, and turnaround requirements rather than a fixed price list, since a straightforward reflow differs significantly in scope from full JATS XML conversion with accessibility remediation. Share your project details and a dedicated project manager will respond with an itemised quote within 48 hours.