Self-Publishing Services

We are driven to create a long-term strategic partnership with our clients by helping them build strong content online, offline, multimedia or print. From highly technical, client-specific content to creatives, from product manuals to websites, advertisements to text books. Quadrant has the talent, systems and processes to deliver cost-effectively while adhering to the most aggressive timeframes.

Editing - We provide developmental editing, substantive editing as well as copyediting services to our customers.

Developmental Editing - Developmental editing includes writing, rewriting and editing of the manuscript provided by the author/client such that the original purpose and the author's intent will be adhered to or enhanced.

Substantive Editing - Substantive editing includes writing or rewriting segments of text to improve the manuscript.

Copyediting - Copyediting services include correcting spelling, grammar, punctuation, syntax, and word usage while preserving the meaning and voice of the original text.

The purpose of good design is not to call attention to itself but to enhance usability. Every little thing matters - which font, how the pull quotes appear, the image on the cover, the line illustrations, how the tables enumerate the content. Attention to details makes a good book more readable and more usable.

Our Book design services include
- Layout Design
- Book cover design
- Line drawings and artwork

We prepare the steps required to turn a design into final form, ready for final printing on a printing press. This may include preflight, color correction, color trapping, imposition, color separation, proofing, and image setting.

Formatting/typesetting - Using our design team's or clients specifications, the typesetting team creates templates (fonts, leading, indentation, paragraphs, quotations, etc.) and then prepares the final pagination (page margins, headers, footers, folio numbers, footnotes/endnotes references, etc.