Orbital has completed prepress projects for the Government, Publishing (medical books and journals, newspapers, manuscripts), Academic, and Chemical industries. While many previous clients have had an STM focus, Orbital has the skill set and resources to service virtually any industry.

Orbital is a leader in providing end-to-end content processing and conversion for publishers worldwide. Orbital has worked with a wide range of composition deliverables, including books, journals, reference works, magazines, directories and catalogs. We are experts in LaTeX, Quark XPress, and InDesign. We provide a front-end XML workflow (XML Publish) that provides simultaneous delivery of high-quality content in both print and digital formats. Illustration rendering, scanning, and correction in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Macromedia Freehand and other graphic applications are tightly integrated with our composition workflows. Orbital's composition service provides an innovative and cost-effective solution for publishers seeking to reduce costs and ensure style consistency in batch production runs.

Copy editors at Orbital are proficient in:

• Working with both UK and US English
• Correcting grammatical errors if authorized by the publisher to compensate for the language skills of non-native authors
• Maintaining the source document's native tone and style, strictly and consistently adhering to the project's style guidelines
• Raising queries to authors and production editors to resolve any ambiguities
• Working on MS-Word as well as LaTex online platforms for both journals and books
• Maintaining consistency in word usage, spelling, and abbreviation as per project-specific checklist
• Indicating location of tables, figures, and footnotes as per callouts, and raising queries for missing floating elements
• Ensuring permission for materials taken from other sources
• Use of software such as Math Typefor mathematical editing

Experienced indexers at Orbital provide services for:

• Construction of subject index
• Construction of author index
• Folio searching (or renumbering) for upcoming editions

We strictly adhere to the client's guidelines, if provided, or The Chicago Manual of Style (latest edition).

Orbital's highly-skilled and experienced team can:

• Write descriptive and informative abstracts for scientific, technical, medical, and legal publications
• Adhere to word count limitation and other client guidelines

The writers at Orbital can create easy-to-read, appealing blurbs that capture the attention and curiosity of buyers, bringing out the flavor of the book or source document.

Orbital's graphic design team can convert image files from a wide variety of source formats into almost any required format. We provide split TIFF and PDF along with coded data. The following processes are performed for artwork and graphic design:

• Conversion of author-supplied files into EPS/TIFF or other formats as per requirement
• Image retouching as per requirement
• Relabeling of images
• Scanning of images
• Recreation of images from author-supplied rough sketches or concepts