Stop Laying Out Books by Hand. Start Composing Them Automatically.
Mediawide turns manual book layout into an automated production line. Define a publisher’s typesetting rules once, then compose finished, print-ready pages straight from your InDesign templates and content – fitted to an exact page count, on-brand, and consistent across every title.
No page-by-page tweaking. No missed deadlines. No rebuilding the same book design over and over. Just print-ready pages, whenever you need them.
Why Choose the Mediawide Publishing Platform?
Publishing demands efficiency and precision. Relying on manual, page-by-page layout leads to overspending, missed deadlines, and inconsistent results across a list. The Mediawide Publishing Platform solves these challenges by combining a rules-based Book Spec engine with Adobe InDesign Server automation – so your team defines the standard once, and every title that follows meets it automatically.
- Rules Defined Once, Applied Everywhere – Set your house rules once in the Mediawide Book Spec, then reuse them across every title, series, or imprint. No re-briefing designers, title after title.
- Fit Text to an Exact Page Count – Lock in a target page extent so every title lands on a fixed number of pages – for predictable signatures and tighter, more cost-efficient print runs.
- Automatic Widow, Orphan & Runt Fixing – Decide how widows, orphans, and runts are caught and corrected, and apply those rules consistently, without a designer checking every spread by hand.
- Powered by Adobe InDesign Server – The plug-ins drive Adobe InDesign Server – the same professional engine as desktop InDesign, running headless and programmatically, so output quality never drops for the sake of automation.
- Time-Saving Automation – Meet tight production deadlines without expanding headcount. What used to take page-by-page manual intervention now runs as an automated job.
How It Works
Define Your Spec
Set your house rules once in the Mediawide Book Spec. Decide how widows, orphans, and runts are caught and corrected, map each paragraph style to the right master page, and list the paragraphs to exclude from global fitting. Lock in the target page extent so every title is laid out to a fixed number of pages. Specs export to JSON, so the same rules can be reused, duplicated, and migrated across imprints and environments.
Compose & Fit
Turn templates and content into real pages automatically. The InDesign plug-ins drive Adobe InDesign Server, pulling in your templates, data feeds, and assets. Your fitting rules are applied as part of the layout, adjusting text to hit the exact page count while preserving full InDesign typographic quality – no manual, page-by-page intervention required.
Render & Deliver
Produce print-ready pages at scale. Run multiple InDesign Server instances in parallel to push high volumes of titles through to finished, on-spec output. Submit and track jobs centrally through the Mediawide Rendering Manager, with per-job status, history, and detailed error reporting for support and operations teams — so the same standard of quality applies across the entire list.
Product Highlights
Global fitting specifications
Define how widows, orphans, and runts are identified and corrected, and apply those rules consistently across an entire title.
Fixed page-extent control
Flow text to an exact number of pages for predictable signatures and tighter, more cost-efficient print runs.
Style-to-master-page mapping
Map each paragraph style to the correct master page so layout stays consistent and fully automated.
Paragraph exclusion lists
Exclude specific paragraphs from global fitting where the standard rules shouldn’t apply
Adobe InDesign Server composition
Plug-ins drive the same engine as desktop InDesign — headless, programmatic, and built for automation
Template-driven generation
Compose pages from InDesign templates plus XML/JSON data and assets, with no manual layout
Reusable, duplicable specs
Duplicate an existing spec as the starting point for a new imprint, series, or list.
Export & migrate specs
Export fitting rules as JSON for backup, transfer, and reuse across titles and environments
High-volume throughput
Run multiple InDesign Server instances per machine for parallel, large-list output and resilience
Centralised rendering
Submit and track InDesign rendering jobs through the Mediawide Rendering Manager REST API
Job monitoring & reporting
Review per-job status, history, and detailed error and debug information from a single reporting view
Enterprise deployment & security
Runs on Windows Server and Kubernetes, with API-key–secured access and network-level controls
