ALS for Magazines is an automated ad layout solution built specifically with magazines in mind. In just a matter of seconds, you can have a fully paginated, accurate and functional ad dummy that can be opened in QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign.

Go digital
If you are like most magazine publishers today, your magazine is produced in a computer-to-plate workflow, and your ads are all digital. You build your editorial pages with desktop software applications. So why are you still drawing your ad maps on paper? Or worse, drawing all those little boxes with your page layout program?

ALS for Magazines fits right into today's new workflows, providing tools for electronic issue planning and ad mapping that eliminate laborious, manual processes and provide automatic integration of digital advertising to editorial pages. With ALS for Magazines you can eliminate ad placement errors and make-goods, reduce production time, and streamline digital workflows.

Keep your magazine moving
When you need to make critical changes and still consider competitive conflicts, placement commitments, color locations, ad-to-edit ratios, form breakdowns, editorial requirements, binding issues, and printing costs, ALS for Magazines is the tool you need. With its extensive feature set and high degree of accuracy and flexibility, ALS for Magazines saves time, cuts costs and increases the overall efficiency of your workflow.

• Easy ad list importing from any front-end system, or from a spreadsheet or database.
• Robust ad information management, such as color, type, size, zone, product code, market code, and much more.
• Creates documents of multiple sizes and page counts.
• Easy management of forms and inserts, from the color, size and placement of each signature, to the exact position of each insert.
• Cost calculator for monitoring the cost of setup and press runs as forms are added or changed.
• Gets ads to pages using automation tools and/or drag-and-drop placement.
• Automatic links to file paths for digital ads.
• Quick display of unplaced ads and conflict reports.
• Editorial planning tools to manage and balance editorial and advertising requirements.
• Advanced color support for managing spot, process, and custom issue colors.
• Easy editioning for placement of zoned ads.
• Built-in statistical reports, which can also be exported to spreadsheets or business system.
• Work with bleed ads: Set a bleed value and all bleeds are added automatically when opening your issue in QuarkXPress and InDesign.
• Control double-truck placement with user-defined preferences.

Macintosh computer with PowerPC G4, PPC G5 or Intel processor

• Macintosh OS X 10.4 ("Tiger"), 10.5 ("Leopard") or 10.6.2 ("Snow Leopard")
• 1 GB RAM

Click here for a QuarkXPress/Adobe InDesign product compatibility chart.

Opening the ALS for Magazines issue in QuarkXPress requires the installation of ALS XT, and Adobe InDesign requires the Ad Import plug-in. All compatible plug-ins and XTensions, for Macintosh and Windows, are included on the ALS for Magazines installation disc.

ALS XT is available for QuarkXPress versions 6.5 through 8.1; Ad Import is available for InDesign CS2, CS3 and CS4.

For more information about ALS for Magazines and to arrange to see a demonstration, fill out the form below.

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