About me

For over 15 years I have been providing freelance publishing support services to a variety of clients including: publishing companies, design agencies, corporate publishing including manufacturing, translation companies and small business.

My services include:

- design, dtp, typesetting

- template design, workflow

- database publishing, XML publishing

- technical authoring and illustration

- web design and pdf production

- localisation

- training

I work on the Mac and PC Windows platform which enables me to provide a wide range of dtp and graphic support services. Current supported software include: the full Adobe CS2 suite on Mac and PC including Macromedia Studio, QuarkXpress from version 4 to 7.3, Adobe Framemaker, Corel Ventura, Coreldraw and Designer, MS Office including Publisher.

I specialise in designing and producing long technical documentation or technically demanding publishing projects such as publishing data stored on databases. Over the last four years this has increasingly included publishing XML data.

I provide technical authoring services to create user guides, installation and maintenance manuals and have many years experience in ATEX and working with translation companies.

I provide conversion of designs into templates with training if required. Some example template designs include: conversion from Quark into Indesign, graphic files into HTML/CSS, dtp designs in MS Word or Publisher, XML into Quark or Indesign or Framemaker.