General Terms & Conditions

(Status: 1 January 2009)

Supplementary provisions for the Internet and Portals business areas can be found at www.viva.systems. They are also part of these General Terms and Conditions.

1. VIVA GmbH (hereinafter referred to as VIVA) shall provide all services described below exclusively on the basis of these terms and conditions. The terms and conditions shall also apply to future transactions with the customer, even if they are not expressly agreed again. VIVA does not recognise deviations from these terms and conditions unless their validity has been expressly agreed. These terms and conditions shall also apply if VIVA carries out the delivery to the customer without reservation in the knowledge of conflicting or deviating terms and conditions of the customer. Subsidiary agreements and deviating agreements shall only become legally effective upon written confirmation by VIVA. VIVA may transfer its rights and obligations under this contract to one or more third parties (transfer of contract).
VIVA is authorised to amend the content of these terms and conditions with the consent of the customer, provided that the amendment is reasonable for the customer, taking into account the interests of VIVA. Consent to the amendment to the contract shall be deemed to have been given if the customer does not object to the amendment within four weeks of receipt of the notification of amendment. If the customer does not agree to the changes, the terms and conditions to which he last agreed shall apply.

2. Offers are subject to change and non-binding, unless otherwise stated in the order confirmation. The contract shall only come into effect upon countersignature (e.g. by order confirmation) of the order by VIVA or with the first act of fulfilment. The offers and order confirmations are always subject to the timely and proper delivery by VIVA’s suppliers. In the event of non-availability, the customer shall be informed immediately. Any payments already made will then be refunded immediately.

3. Prices are ex works. Value added tax and other statutory charges in the country of delivery as well as packaging, shipping costs and environmental charges shall be charged to the customer in accordance with the applicable prices. VIVA reserves the right to increase the price appropriately if cost increases occur after conclusion of the contract – in particular due to price increases on the part of suppliers and exchange rate fluctuations. At the request of the customer, VIVA shall provide evidence of the changes. Payments are due immediately after invoicing without any deductions.

4. the delivery date shall be agreed in accordance with VIVA’s anticipated performance capacity and shall be non-binding and subject to timely delivery to VIVA (in the event of non-availability, the principles set out under 2 shall apply) and unforeseen circumstances and obstacles, irrespective of whether these occur at VIVA or at the manufacturer, in particular force majeure, government measures, failure to obtain official permits, industrial disputes of any kind, sabotage, shortage of raw materials, late deliveries of materials through no fault of VIVA, etc. Such events shall extend the delivery date accordingly, even if they occur during a delay that has already occurred. Should VIVA be more than four weeks late with a delivery, the purchaser may withdraw from the contract after setting a reasonable period of grace in writing, to the exclusion of any further claims. VIVA expressly reserves the right to make reasonable partial deliveries and to invoice them.

5. Unless otherwise stated in the order confirmation, delivery ex works is agreed. The risk shall pass to the customer upon handover to the carrier, its authorised representative or other persons. This shall also apply if VIVA bears the transport costs. Complaints due to transport damage must be made by the customer directly to the transport company within the special deadlines provided. The conclusion of transport or other insurance policies shall be at the discretion of the purchaser. This also applies to returns, see clause 9.

6. VIVA shall retain title to the delivered goods and services for as long as it is still entitled to claims from the current and future business relationships with the customer in the amount of the respective invoice totals. As long as VIVA still has claims from the current and future business relationships with the customer, it may reclaim the delivered goods/services and/or prohibit and/or block the use of the goods/services until all claims have been finally settled. The necessary expenses and damages shall be borne exclusively by the customer. The customer assigns his claim from the resale and the products supplied by VIVA in full. He assures us an irrevocable right of access to the goods as long as all claims have not been settled. If the purchaser has recorded data on data carriers supplied by us and still owned by us, our ownership shall remain unaffected. The goods may neither be pledged to third parties nor assigned as security before full payment has been made. As long as the purchaser duly fulfils his obligations to VIVA, he shall be entitled to collect these claims in his own name.

If the value of the security provided exceeds 20 per cent of VIVA’s claims, VIVA undertakes to release securities to this extent. VIVA shall be responsible for selecting the securities to be released. If the customer does not fulfil his acceptance obligations, VIVA shall be entitled to demand ten percent of this sum as compensation without proof, unless the customer can prove that the damage is lower. Higher damages for VIVA are also not excluded, provided that VIVA can prove higher damages. The customer shall be responsible for any necessary disposal of the delivered goods and packaging at VIVA’s expense.

If neither of the contracting parties demands a formal acceptance or if the acceptance date demanded by one of the parties does not materialise, the contractual service of VIVA shall be deemed to have been accepted at the latest upon use by the customer.

7. Invoices are payable net cash immediately after receipt of the goods or provision of the service. In the case of continuing obligations (e.g. rent, hosting, support, etc.), invoices are payable in advance at the beginning of the period (month or year). In case of doubt, the invoice date shall be deemed to be the delivery date or the date of service provision.

Payment shall only be made on time if the means of payment (e.g. cheque) is available to us for encashment within seven days of the invoice date. Cheques or bills of exchange are accepted subject to final crediting.

If a term of payment is granted, payment shall only be deemed to have been made on time if the means of payment (e.g. cheque or bill of exchange) is available to VIVA for encashment on the day the term expires or the agreed invoice amount is credited to our account by bank transfer.

The debtor is responsible for providing proof of timely receipt. The purchase price has been calculated on the basis of absolute compliance with the agreed payment deadline. If payment is not received on time, the parties agree that the purchase price will be increased by five per cent. We shall utilise bank credit. Unless we can prove higher damages caused by default, interest on arrears shall be charged at a rate of one per cent per month. If the purchaser defaults on payment, we shall be entitled to demand immediate payment of all outstanding claims, including those for which bills of exchange have been issued, and to make outstanding deliveries only against advance payment, with the payment term being cancelled. Insofar as VIVA does not demand the return of the goods, selections (loaned items) that are not received by us within the specified period shall be deemed to have been purchased on the day on which the period expires. The selection invoice shall become a fixed invoice after expiry of the deadline.

Agreements deviating from this are only valid if they are specifically noted for each individual delivery on the order confirmation and invoice.

The customer is not entitled to offset claims against VIVA or to assert rights of retention unless the customer’s claims against VIVA are undisputed or have been recognised by declaratory judgement.

8. The customer must inspect delivered goods/services immediately after delivery for any material defects, quantity deviations or incorrect delivery. The customer must notify us in writing of any defective delivery in whole or in part immediately after discovery, at the latest within one week of delivery. Any defects must also be documented in a meaningful way, in particular by logging any error messages. The customer is obliged to first analyse the problem and rectify the fault in accordance with the user manual before reporting the defect. The notification period for defects that were recognisable during the careful inspection required for the type of goods shall be no longer than one week. Other defects must be reported immediately after their discovery. If the customer is a merchant and fails to notify the defect immediately and in due time or form, the goods shall be deemed to have been approved in view of this defect. Any missing or ambiguous definitions/agreements, for example with regard to the object of performance, scheduling, execution or processing, shall not constitute a defect and shall be borne by the customer. Changes in this respect require the express and specific consent of VIVA in each individual case. Incorrect notifications of defects, which are based, for example, on a problem of understanding or a user error, shall be charged to the customer at the applicable hourly rate, but at least at the hourly rate of 130 euros/hour.

In the event of justified complaints, VIVA shall, at its discretion, deliver additional quantities, exchange the goods, take them back or grant the customer a price reduction. In principle, VIVA has the right to repair the delivered goods twice.

Claims for damages of any kind whatsoever shall be excluded in such cases. However, if VIVA is guilty of gross negligence, it is agreed that claims for damages can only be made up to the amount of the purchase price of a rejected part within a delivery of goods or services within a period of time.

We will charge the customer a processing fee of at least Euro 50 for returns after the warranty has expired. This also applies if the item is irreparable or was not purchased from us.

9 Returns will only be accepted subject to our inspection. In any case, the return shipment, including accidental loss, shall be at the risk of the customer. In the case of returns for which the customer is responsible, in particular – but not exclusively – in the case of refusal of acceptance, we shall charge a flat-rate restocking fee.

10. Unless expressly agreed otherwise, our individual customer demonstrations are free of charge. However, customer demonstrations are automatically subject to a charge if it transpires that the customer has no intention of using the goods or deliberately misleads VIVA about his true intentions or leaves VIVA in the dark. This is particularly the case if the customer is a direct or indirect competitor or a customer who acts quasi on behalf of or as a front man for a competitor. Unless VIVA proves higher damages, the customer must compensate the damages incurred at the full daily rate.

11. Should provisions of these General Terms and Conditions and/or the contract be or become invalid, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions. Instead, each invalid provision shall be replaced by a provision that corresponds or at least comes close to the purpose of the agreement, as the parties would have agreed in order to achieve the same economic result if they had been aware of the invalidity of the provision. The same applies to incompleteness. The latest version of the Terms and Conditions of Sale shall apply.

12. Place of fulfilment for delivery and payment is Koblenz/Germany. The exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this contract shall be Koblenz if the customer is a merchant, a legal entity under public law, a special fund under public law or has no place of jurisdiction in Germany. VIVA is also entitled to sue the customer at his general place of jurisdiction. For the contracts concluded by VIVA on the basis of these General Terms and Conditions and for claims arising from them, regardless of their nature, the law of the Federal Republic of Germany shall apply exclusively, excluding the provisions of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

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General Workflows and Processes with VIVA Publishing Solutions

VIVA Publishing Solutions offer you many possibilities for creating documents:

  • You can create and edit documents in the same quality on the desktop or in the web.
  • You can create and edit documents manually (“Creative Process”) or with individual limitations (“Limited Creative Process”).
  • You can create and edit documents manually in a team (“Creative Team Process”) or with individual limitations (“Limited Team Process”).
  • You can create and edit documents manually using a database (“Database Publishing” Process by Drag & Drop) or with individual limitations (“Limited Database Publishing” Process by Drag & Drop).
  • You can create and edit documents semi-automatically using a database (“Database Publishing” Process with “creative” or “intelligent” forms).
  • You can create documents fully automatically using a database or forms.
  • You can edit all documents that were created semi-automatically or fully automatically, with or without limitations.
  • With ALL processes/workflows, you can edit the documents created with VIVA in third-party programs (e.g. Adobe® InDesign®).

Thus completely new possibilities arise for the structuring of processes/workflows for the creation, editing and management of documents. In all cases, VIVA documents can be saved as PDF, JPG, XML or IDML files for InDesign®.

1. “Creative” Process
In the creative process, a user has all the functionalities of a professional typesetting and layout program, irrelevant of whether he uses the program on the desktop or in the Web. With this process, the user constructs the document completely on his own, uses existing VIVA documents or imports templates from third party programs (e.g. Adobe® InDesign®). As an additional option, you can edit the documents created with VIVA in third party programs (e.g. Adobe® InDesign®).

This process is suitable for the manual production of all print documents for which no automation is necessary.

Product: VivaDesigner (Desktop and Web Edition)

2. Limited “Creative” Process
In the limited creative process, a user has reduced editing functions, irrelevant of whether he uses the program on the desktop or in the Web. This process is useful if users should only edit certain parts of a document. In this process, a user can for example only edit the image crop, edit text and only assign predefined style sheets. The limitations can be defined individually for each document, and in the Web Edition they can also be assigned to specific roles. The creation of a suitable template takes just a few minutes.

This process is suitable for the manual editing of documents where the Corporate Design must be adhered to and when the users don’t want to learn any new software.

Product: VivaDesigner (Desktop and Web Edition)
Product: Distributed Publishing with VivaDesigner

3. Creative “Team” Process
In the creative “team” process, many users can work simultaneously on “one” document on the desktop or in the Web, without a special database or management software being necessary. For this purpose, appropriate tasks are created, whereby each task is represented by a separate file. a task file contains all the objects that a user must edit. He can however also insert his own objects.

This process is suitable for the production of complex documents like magazines, newspapers or business reports.

Product: VivaDesigner (Desktop and Web Edition)
Product: Team Publishing with VivaDesigner

4.Limited “Team” Process
With the limited “team” process, the editing functions are reduced in the same way as with the limited creative process.

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5. Database Publishing Process by Drag & Drop
With the Database Publishing Process by Drag & Drop (“Easy Publishing”, “EP” for short), a document is linked to a data source (database, CSV file, etc.). On the basis of this data source and predefined layout rules, the user can create documents semi-automatically on the desktop or in the Web by Drag & Drop. A layout rule consists of a series of instructions as to how for example images and text should be displayed or formatted. Here the user drags the content from the data source to the required text or image objects in the document to which a layout rules has been assigned. The images and text are displayed automatically according to the layout rules. The user can also add his own content that is not part of the data source.

This process is suitable for semi-automatic production of very individual catalogs based on a database, whereby the layout of the data may be freely chosen by the user.

Product: VivaNWP Designer (EP Edition)

6. Limited Database Publishing Process by Drag & Drop
With the limited Database Publishing Process by Drag & Drop, the editing functions are reduced in the same way as with the limited creative process. In this case, the user can for example only drag the database content to existing objects and not add his own content.

Product: VivaNWP Designer (EP-Edition)
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7. Database Publishing Process with “creative” forms
With the Database Publishing Process with “creative” forms (“Creative Publishing”, “CP” for short), a graphic template is created on a special page. These pages are called “Forms”, the document is called a “Template”. For setting up the template and the forms, the user has all the functions of a layout and typesetting program at his disposal. Forms can also be combined with master pages as backgrounds. The master pages may be assigned either manually or by using a rule. Picture objects are linked to the database via appropriate settings. In the text objects, variables for database fields are inserted.

The user can test the data source with the form on the desktop. Here the content from the database is linked automatically to the objects in the forms. an extensive set of rules enables the manipulation of data. In this way, content may be adapted based on the rules or typographic decisions may be taken as to how the content should be displayed, depending on certain parameters.

The templates created can also be linked with content from a database fully automatically by using a server process.

Since templates with creative forms generally have no clear layout rules, this process is suitable for semi-automatic and fully automatic production of very individual catalogs on the basis of a database, which also defines the order of the data.

Product: VivaNWP Designer (CP Edition)
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8. Database Publishing Process with “intelligent” forms
With the Database Publishing Process with “intelligent” forms (“Intelligent Publishing”, “IP” for short), a schematic template is created on a special page. These pages are also called “Forms”, the document is called a “Template”. While in the process with creative forms the objects have fixed positions, objects in the process with intelligent forms may be positioned dynamically. This means that the position of an object may change in connection with another object. If for example an image and text share the same area, an image must become larger or smaller if the amount of text becomes smaller or larger. Intelligent forms can consist of a whole page or also part of a page (e.g. 1/2, 1/4 page, etc. In this case, pages my be built dynamically with several different forms and combined in any way. As well as text and picture objects, complex tables, charts/graphs and bar codes can be created dynamically.

The user can test the data source with the form on the desktop. Here the content from the database is linked automatically to the objects in the forms. an extensive set of rules enables the manipulation of data. In this way, content may be adapted based on the rules or typographic decisions may be taken as to how the content should be displayed, depending on certain parameters.

The templates created can also be linked with content from a database fully automatically by using a server process.

Since templates with schematic forms have very clear layout rules, this process is suitable for semi-automatic and fully automatic production of price lists or catalogs on the basis of a database.

Product: VivaNWP Designer (IP Edition)
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9. Form-based Process
In every VIVA document, you can store manual or automated XML data in XMP format, which can be imported or analysed from another desktop or Web application. This technology is frequently used to apply individual and freely definable Meta data to documents. This can for example be Meta data for further editing such as information about the paper type to be used, the binding type or a pricing structure.

With a VIVA template with creative and/or schematic forms, the XML data may for example define a form that is analysed and displayed by a Web application. In this way a VIVA template with creative and/or schematic forms may be created not only on the basis of a separate data source, but also for individual entry.

This process is particularly suited for automated production of business cards, invitations and other printed matter that are not produced from a database.

General Production Types with VIVA Publishing Solutions

VIVA is one of the leading technology companies worldwide in optimizing marketing processes. Hardly any other manufacturer of standard software offers more options for optimizing marketing processes. VIVA offers four different types of publishing productions:

  • Fully automatic production,
  • Semi-automatic production,
  • Manual production, or
  • Combined production

Option 1: Fully automatic production

With a fully automatic production using VIVA publishing servers, the employees normally don‘t have to learn any new software: The VIVA publishing servers can be integrated into every workflow, so that many users create the marketing documents with a keystroke straight from SAP, MS Navision or other applications such as Excel, Access or Web portals.

For this reason too, the installation of special software on the employee’s workstation is usually unnecessary.

Since the documents are produced in real time, long delays have become a thing of the past. The employee receives the results within just a few seconds. Therefore a document can generally be produced much more cheaply, since with this method all manual tasks become superfluous. A positive side effect: Thanks to the integrated rule system, sources for errors are reduced considerably. The cleft between print and databases or enterprise resource planning (ERP) is closed. Incorrect information such as article numbers, prices or descriptions and technical data in printed matter is finally brought to an end.

Option 2: Semi-automatic production

Even with semi-automatic production, the employees don’t have to learn any new software: With Database Publishing® tools from VIVA, your employees will, after a brief training, create documents that conform to your CD by Drag and Drop. The software can be used on the desktop or even in the Web.

Option 3: Manual production

Even with manual production using VivaDesigner, the employees don’t have to learn any new software: With this software, your employees will immediately create documents that conform to your CD. With the “Distributed Publishing” technology, the program functionality can be steered or reduced in individual stages for every single document. Therefore an employee with basic knowledge of word processing or photo books can work with a complex layout program without training. The company decides the extent of the layout functions that the employee will receive. Furthermore: VIVA is the only supplier worldwide to offer a professional layout program with the same functionality both on the desktop and also in the Web. Through the unique functionality of embedding fonts in an open document, no fonts need to be installed on the employee’s computer. Last but not least: With the “Team Publishing” technology, several employees can even work simultaneously on one document. Even the graphic designer doesn’t need to learn any new software or create documents from scratch, as VIVA products can exchange documents with Adobe InDesign in an excellent quality.

Option 4: Combined production

All types of production can also be combined with one another. Thus a document that has been produced fully automatically can be edited in a manual process at any time.

Publishing solutions and concepts for software developers, IT and service companies

Easily integrate VIVA Publishing applications into your desktop, server or Web application and design/create perfect PDFs, VIVA, XML, or InDesign® documents manually or even fully automatically.

VIVA Publishing applications are the perfect solution for all Web-to-Print, Shop, PIM, CRM, ERP, MIS, MAM, DAM developers, IT consultants, SAAS & Cloud providers, System Houses, etc.

It doesn´t matter if you are a beginner or already work with other libraries to create open documents or PDFs: The VIVA Publishing products and technologies considerably reduce your developer workload and at the same time provide an open system, which offers you and your customers completely new workflows and technical possibilities.

Design manually or create fully automatically:

Optimize your publishing and marketing processes according to your requirements: Design manually, with full or even restricted editing rights, with the desktop or Web edition of VivaDesigner directly in your application. Create documents fully automtically based on templates from databases or other data sources directly in your application.

Manage documents in your application:

VivaDesigner can open and save documents in all supported formats (VIVA, IDML, XML, etc.) directly in databases, Intranet or Internet applications. Thus you can for example ensure that users cannot save your documents locally on their own computers.

Read your parameters from the documents:

VIVA programs support the XMP format for standard information (page preview, document information, etc.) and enables the individual extension of user information in XMP format.

Write or read VIVA documents:

Write or read parts or complete documents in your application, as VivaDesigner documents can be saved completely in XML format.

Transform text into any designs:

With a simple XSL transformation you convert formatted text to HTML on the basis of a “CSS”.

Work with Adobe® InDesign® documents:

With the IDML support module, you can edit and save Adobe® InDesign® documents (from CS4) in your applications.

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VivaDesigner Marketing/Publishing Workflows and Solutions for Corporations

“For us VivaDesigner is the best layout program for Web & desktop that has ever been developed for corporate users?!”

Why? It is demonstrably the only professional layout application that despite its complexity can be used immediately both by professionals and beginners without training, worldwide in all languages, and at the same time guarantees the Corporate Design (CD) of your company:

  • Hardly any other layout program can guarantee the creation of documents within the framework of your Corporate Design (CD)!
  • Hardly any other layout program can be used immediately by beginners without any training!
  • Hardly any other layout program offers more possibilities in the creation of workflows between colleagues within the company, service providers, partners or even customers!
  • Hardly any other layout program is available both on the desktop and in the Web!
  • Hardly any other layout program offers a better data exchange with competitors’ products!
  • Hardly any other layout program offers inherently more possibilities in the creation of documents!
  • Hardly any other layout program offers more functions in free of charge and licensed program versions!

Do you still work with traditional layout programs, word processing, PDF, E-Mail, FTP, CMS, publishing systems, photo book or “Web-to-Print” software to organize your publishing processes?

If you want to exchange designs with your customers today, you have to put in a lot of effort:

  • You supply the appropriate PDFs either by fax, post or email, on which the colleague can “comment”.
  • Your colleagues supplies you with “MS-Word®” or “MS-PowerPoint®” files as templates, which you must rebuild from scratch in your layout program.
  • You supply a Web-to-Print software to your colleagues and partners that is expensive, and whose templates must be built from scratch and are only suitable for just a few print products.
  • You would never dream of giving your colleagues or partners an open document! If you did, you would have to fear for your work and Corporate Design (CD).

With “Distributed Publishing” VivaDesigner offers you a completely new, simple, safe and above all affordable solution for communication between colleagues within the company, service providers, partners or even customers!

What is “Distributed Publishing”?

“Distributed Publishing” is a new technology with which corporations prepare and provide an open layout document to their colleagues or employees. The editing rights that a user may have can be defined individually for every document.

When do I need VivaDesigner with “Distributed Publishing”?

You need “Distributed Publishing” as an optional extension to or replacement for your layout program if you can answer one or two of the goals listed below with Yes.

Goals for companies:

  • You receive from your colleagues text or word processor files, PDFs, faxes, E-Mails and want to put an end to this flood of data and manual tasks?
  • You want to save the costs for an editing system or a “Web-to-Print” solution, because these are too expensive and/or are not suited for small print runs?
  • You want to keep full control over the document even with small print runs and still offer your colleagues extensive freedom of content?
  • You need a solution that gives your colleagues and partners world-wide the possibility of translating into ALL languages without changing your design?
  • You want ONE software without any language exceptions? For Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew and Arabic?

Goals for employees/end users:

  • You want to enter your text straight into the final layout, instead of writing in text or word processing programs or E-Mail programs?
  • You want to define image cropping and image size directly in the final layout, instead of describing your requirements in great detail to the graphic designer?
  • You don’t want to make proofing corrections in PDFs or send text by E-Mail any more?
  • You want a user interface with a genuine print preview (WYSIWYG) that is simpler than “MS-Word®”?
  • You don’t want to be obliged to buy the layout software of your graphic designer including all updates and upgrades?
  • You don’t want to exchange data constantly with the graphic designer until both parties are satisfied?
  • You want to provide your overseas partners in the Middle East or Asia with documents in your CD and the relevant translations? You want ONE software for all languages, NO exceptions?

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VivaDesigner Publishing Solutions for the Media Branch

“For us VivaDesigner is the best layout program for Web and desktop that has ever been developed for printers, typesetting and media service providers and agencies!”

Why? Because VivaDesigner is the world’s only layout application that protects your investment in customers, design and documents in a lasting way:

  • Hardly any other layout program protects the investment made by service providers and corporations in the design and the documents in such a lasting way from misuse or incorrect usage by third parties/customers!
  • Hardly any other layout program enables the establishment of such a high customer loyalty!
  • Hardly any other layout program offers more possibilities in the creation of workflows between service providers and customers!
  • Hardly any other layout program is available both on the desktop and in the Web!
  • Hardly any other layout program offers a better data exchange with competitors’ products!

Do you still work with traditional layout programs, word processing, PDF, E-Mail, FTP, CMS, publishing systems, photo book or “Web-to-Print” software to organize you publishing processes?

If you want to exchange designs with your customers today, you have to put in a lot of effort:

  • You supply the appropriate PDFs either by fax, post or email, on which the customer can “comment”.
  • Your customer supplies you with “MS-Word®” or “MS-PowerPoint®” files as templates, which you must rebuild from scratch in your layout program.
  • You supply a Web-to-Print software to your customer that is too expensive, and whose templates must be built from scratch and are only suitable for just a few print products.
  • You would never dream of giving your customer an open document! If you did, you would have to fear for your work.

With “Distributed Publishing” VivaDesigner offers you a completely new, simple, safe and above all affordable solution for communication between media service providers and your customers or colleagues!

What is “Distributed Publishing”?

“Distributed Publishing” is a new technology with which media service providers prepare and provide an open layout document to their customers, colleagues or employees. The editing rights that a user may have can be defined individually for every document.

When do I need VivaDesigner with “Distributed Publishing”?

You need “Distributed Publishing” as an optional extension to or replacement for your layout program if according to your user group you can answer one or two of the goals listed below with Yes.

Goals for designers/service providers:

  • You receive from your customers/colleagues text or word processor files, PDFs, faxes, E-Mails and want to put an end to this flood of data and manual tasks?
  • You want to save the costs for an editing system or a “Web-to-Print” solution, because these are too expensive and/or are not suited for small print runs?
  • You want to keep full control over the document even with small print runs and still offer your customers extensive freedom of content?
  • You want to ensure that the customer does not move to other suppliers with your templates?
  • You need a solution that gives your customers and their partners world-wide the possibility of translating into ALL languages without changing your design?
  • You want ONE software without any language exceptions? For Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew and Arabic?

Goals for companies/end users:

  • You want to enter your text straight into the final layout, instead of writing in text or word processing programs or E-Mail programs?
  • You want to define image cropping and image size directly in the final layout, instead of describing your requirements in great detail to the graphic designer?
  • You don’t want to make proofing corrections in PDFs or send text by E-Mail any more?
  • You want a user interface with a genuine print preview (WYSIWYG) that is simpler than “MS-Word®”?
  • You don’t want to be obliged to buy the layout software of your graphic designer including all updates and upgrades?
  • You don’t want to exchange data constantly with the graphic designer until both parties are satisfied?
  • You want to provide your overseas partners in the Middle East or Asia with documents in your CD and the relevant translations? You want ONE software for all languages, NO exceptions?

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Innovative Workflows and Processes with VivaDesigner (Desktop and Web Edition)

Experience with our innovations a new dimension in designing and optimizing the marketing, publishing and communication workflows and processes between you and your customers:

Innovation 1: Protection
For the first time you can with just a few mouse clicks provide complex documents to users who only have basic “MS-Word®” or photo book knowledge and define for each document which editing and output rights these users should have. Here it is NOT necessary to change the document structure or make complicated conversions!

Innovation 2: Functionality
Compared to other programs, VivaDesigner offers functions that considerably simplify smooth transfer and processing of documents, and above all dramatically reduce the effort involved for the service provider.

Step 1: Structuring and preparation of documents

  • You can import ready-made layouts directly from InDesign® or XPress®, or you create your documents in the desktop or Web edition of VivaDesigner.
  • You can optionally embed all fonts used in the document so that a font installation of the customer’s computer is unnecessary.
  • You can optionally embed all used and newly imported images in the document.
  • You can optionally define access rights to limit the customer’s editing possibilities.
  • You can optionally predefine parameters for further editing.
  • With notes you can provide non-printable information and tips for other users.
  • You can optionally define tasks so that several users can work simultaneously on one document.

Step 2: Document supply

  • You can send documents by E-Mail or provide them as downloads from your Website or shop.
  • With the definition of virtual drives in VivaDesigner, you can force your customer to open the document from your database or via the Internet.

Step 3: Editing by the customer

  • The customer sees only the program functions that you have released to him in this document.
  • The customer only has access to the layers that you have released to him in this document.
  • The customer only has access to the text, picture and table objects that you have released to him in this document.
  • The customer sees the program functions in his language. This also goes for all standard colors and even for style sheets!
  • With the visual Preflight, the customer can recognise immediately whether images are printable or not.
  • Using change tracking you can establish who has made which changes to text in a document.
  • With notes you can provide non-printable information and tips for other users in text and objects.

Step 4: Transfer to service provider (desktop version)

  • The customer can send the documents to the service provider fully automatically from VivaDesigner without needing an FTP or E-Mail program.
  • You can ensure that transferred documents are displayed directly in the shopping basket of your Web shop with a document preview.
  • With the optional definition of virtual drives in VivaDesigner, you can force your customer to save the document directly in your database or in the Internet.

Innovation 3: All Platforms
For the first time, you can edit documents both on the desktop on Windows, Mac OS X and even Linux as well as in the browser LOSS-FREE and WITH ALMOST THE SAME FUNCTIONALITY. NO font installation, NO Browser PlugIns, NO Java and NO Flash are needed!

  • You can construct pure desktop workflow processes for your customers, where both you and your customers create and/or edit the documents on a desktop.
  • You can construct mixed “Desktop/Web” workflows/processes for your customers, where you create the documents on a desktop or in the Web, and your customers create or edit documents exclusively in the Web.
  • You can construct mixed “Web/Desktop” workflows/processes for your customers, where you create the documents on a desktop or in the Web, and your customers create or edit documents exclusively in the Web.

Innovation 4: Variable costs

VivaDesigner opens completely new possibilities in the distribution of documents. Taking into account your own concepts and customer requirements as well as the financial side, you can define for yourself how the workflow/process should be structured:

  • You can decide yourself whether your customers should work with a free of charge or licensed version of VivaDesigner.
  • As a service provider you can buy “Floating Licenses” for the desktop that you can give to other customers successively if the functionality of the free of charge version is not sufficient.
  • Your customers can buy or rent their own licensed versions directly from us or through your company.
  • You can also opt to make the VivaDesigner Web Edition available to your customers.