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.