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COSIMA Scripting: Achieve more with fewer clicks – from Excel to XML

Welcome to our new “COSIMA Scripting” blog series! With the help of scripting, COSIMA users with basic programming experience can create new and very specific functionalities on their own. We will be presenting various examples from our customers to show the exciting possibilities that are out there.

“You aren’t getting in here”: The image check feature in DOCUFY COSIMA

We have adopted a “doorman policy” in DOCUFY COSIMA as part of a customer project with specific requirements for checking images. Our customer only wants graphics and images that meet certain quality criteria to be allowed in the content management system. To this end, DOCUFY COSIMA automatically checks the image’s colour space, resolution and pixel size during import. Files can only be imported and used if they pass this image check, ensuring high quality requirements for print and online use are met from the outset and maintained throughout the entire process chain.

Evaluate design data, reduce production costs – Spühl GmbH relies on DOCUFY CAx Analytics to do this

You’ve made your bed, now you have to lie in it – and if you’re lying on a mattress from Spühl, you’ll have the best sleep of your life! The company based in Wittenbach, Switzerland, has made huge strides in the quality of its design data and uses big-data analysis in DOCUFY CAx Analytics to resolve problems and optimise processes. The manufacturer of wire forming machines has a soft and comfortable – or rather efficient and high-quality – basis for its future.

Better Data Quality with DOCUFY CAx Quality Manager – A GRIMME Group Success Story

The DOCUFY CAx Quality Manager has been in use at GRIMME Landmaschinenfabrik for one and a half years – a success story.

News from DOCUFY Layouter

DOCUFY Layouter allows you to easily design output layouts yourself, save them, and customize them as desired. The new release now offers even more layout options.

My everyday life as a working student at DOCUFY or: Is it a bug or a feature?

This is a question I often ask myself when testing. During my mandatory internship I was able to get a good impression of the company and of course I did not hesitate to accept the offer of the working student position.

“Complicated layouts with right-to-left fonts and book spines are ready in no time and information will soon be available on mobile devices via TopicPilot”.

So far:

Operating manuals in 30 languages – including right-to-left fonts
Cover pages and spines were created manually in a complex process
Three-column design in DIN A5 landscape format sets high demands on the layout tool

Now:

User manuals are now created with COSIMA enterprise and DOCUFY Layouter
DOCUFY Layouter automatically calculates the thickness of the covers spine based on the paper thickness that is used
Mobile garage documentation via TopicPilot in planning

MAN Truck & Bus launches COSIMA and DOCUFY Layouter – A success story

MAN Truck & Bus (MAN) is one of the leading european commercial vehicle manufacturers and providers of transport solutions with annual sales of around eleven billion euros (2019). The product portfolio includes vans, trucks, buses, diesel and gas engines as well as services for passenger and freight transport. MAN Truck & Bus is a company of TRATON SE.

TopicPilot 4.0 – More usability, better design, faster search function

With the software release 4.0 DOCUFY extends the functional range of the mobile publication platform TopicPilot. New functions are now available in the web interface and mobile applications. Numerous improvements and requirements have been implemented.

COSIMA 8.0 – New features, better usability

Do you want “clean”, error-free content in your editorial system? With the new Schematron feature, XML content can now be validated even more precisely in COSIMA 8.0, and the gradation “Info / Warning / Error” helps to correctly categorize your check results. Included rules check in COSIMA go! for layout errors and: you can even add your own rules. But that’s not everything – the new COSIMA 8.0 offers numerous new features and usability improvements.

IGEL – Translatable texts, CD-compliant lines and numbers

Thanks to IGEL, you can add position lines and numbers to pictures and illustrations quickly, easily and without any additional graphics program. In addition, the administrator can specify all the display options for lines, areas and frames in advance in accordance with corporate design.

Thanks to the intelligent text/image reference, IGEL automatically generates the appropriate image legend from your assigned position numbers. Where editors have previously dispensed with text in images in order to avoid the difficult translation process that would have been required, IGEL now makes it easy to localize text in images. In this way, multilingual display texts, legend texts and part numbers in pictures can be easily converted.

DOCUFY Layouter: Extensions

Not only the content of a documentation is important – its visual appearance also indicates the quality & professionalism of the document. With DOCUFY Layouter 2.0 you can now customize layouts even more individually: There are new parameters for lists and warnings/safety instructions and different text contents can be flexibly combined and placed in the layout. Another new feature is printing company information, which the DOCUFY Layouter uses to provide the information required for professional printing, such as bleed, registration marks or color wedges. Companies with a high export share can look forward to the new right-to-left fonts such as Arabic and Hebrew: For right-to-left fonts, DOCUFY Layouter not only rotates the text direction, but automatically also all other parts of the designed layout that need to be adjusted.

Into the digital future with COSIMA

It is our goal to constantly simplify your work in technical documentation (the most important department in the company) with our software solutions and to automate processes in a meaningful way. At the same time, we would like to pave the way for companies into the age of digitalization and Industry 4.0. Because technical documentation is facing new challenges: Standardized products produced in large quantities are being replaced by individually configured products. This makes the document-oriented editing process increasingly laborious. With our software solutions, you define an information space that allows you to precisely address individual information units and their variants. Product-specific information can be created ad hoc and automatically and then published in various media with TopicPilot. In this way, you can be sure that with COSIMA you continue to work efficiently and in conformity with the law even with a high number of variants and that you are equipped for the challenges of digitization and Industry 4.0.