Editor

The ability to edit in a variety of ways is an absolute necessity for publishers. The WFDM allows content editing at almost any point along the publishing chain. With a few practical exceptions (i.e., it does not always make sense to fully recreate downstream versions for minor alterations), authorized users of the Well-Formed Document Manager (WFDM) can always edit the content.

The primary ways to edit content are:

Microsoft Word

Most publishers work using Microsoft Word. The WFDM allows you to export to Word and will ingest copyedited files. This allows you the flexibility to utilize a more typical workflow, while producing content. And, materials can be brought in an out of the WFDM at any stage, allowing for editing at any stage, or round-tripping of publications

WYSIWYG Editor

The WFDM incorporates a WYSIWYG editor in order to provide the variety of editorial levels necessary to make the WFDM successful. From the WFDM, you can produce multi-staged, multi-authored, multi-edited, peer-reviewed publications, or simple monographs.

InDesign

While InDesign is not an ideal program in which to copyedit, it is typical that ther are alterations to content in the typesetting phase. Using the WFDM and the WFDW, publishers can ingest content from InDesign. This means that you may maintain one publication stream and never lose an alteration.