Professional Pagination and Typesetting Services

Precision Page Layout for Global Publishers.

Our dedicated team in our India delivery centre provides perfect page layout, design, typesetting and digital production for all publishing projects. We provide typesetting services through InDesign and LaTeX for both books and journals.

Transforming Manuscripts into Polished Publications

Siliconchips Services is a premier provider of professional typesetting services and pagination solutions for the global publishing industry. With our operational headquarters in London, UK, and a dedicated, high-capacity delivery centre in India, we offer the perfect balance of British quality assurance and offshore cost-efficiency. This strategic global model ensures we deliver world-class quality at a scale and price point that meets the commercial demands of modern publishing houses.

We specialise in transforming raw manuscripts into beautifully composed, print-ready pages and error-free digital formats. The pagination process is the critical moment where your editorial investment meets the final aesthetic and technical requirements of your channel partners. Whether you require intricate LaTeX typesetting services for complex mathematical journals or creative InDesign XML automation for high-volume trade books, our team delivers a perfect page layout that enhances readability, upholds your brand’s prestige, and future-proofs your content for multiple formats. We are dedicated to ensuring that the technical presentation of your content matches its scholarly or narrative quality.

Comprehensive Typesetting and Layout Capabilities

Our typesetting and layout division manages the entire production lifecycle, ensuring absolute adherence to design and technical specifications from the first page of the front matter to the last page of the index. We understand that professional book formatting is not just about placing text on a page; it is about establishing visual hierarchy, maximising readability across devices, and maintaining strict technical compliance with your design specifications.

1. Advanced Book Typesetting Services

We provide end-to-end composition for all book genres, from fiction and non-fiction to complex educational and reference textbooks. Our services are designed to handle every variable a book presents, ensuring a consistent and pleasant reading experience.

Standard Composition: We execute clean, aesthetic layout for trade books and monographs using the most current, industry-standard Adobe InDesign workflows. Our typesetters focus on micro-typographic details, managing hyphenation, kerning, tracking, and leading to eliminate visual inconsistencies (rivers) and maintain a clean grey page.
Complex Text Formatting: We specialise in the highly demanding layouts required for educational materials and reference works. This includes expert handling of multi-column layouts, integrated sidebars, marginal notes, complex running heads, and the seamless integration of integrated graphics and call-outs. We ensure instructional elements are clearly differentiated from core narrative text, aiding learner comprehension.
Front and Back Matter Integration: A successful book requires precise formatting of the ancillary content. We meticulously format title pages, copyright pages, dedications, tables of contents, and indices. Crucially, we integrate the final index files, ensuring every page reference is accurate and links correctly within the digital output, providing a final, cohesive product.
Template Creation and Standardisation: For publishers managing extensive book series or multi-volume reference sets, we develop robust, reusable master templates. These templates are built with efficiency and flexibility in mind, allowing for rapid application while ensuring visual consistency across your entire series or imprint.

2. Specialist Journal and STEM Pagination

As a recognised scientific publishing company, our technical team excels where others struggle. We embrace the complexity of scholarly publishing, and our team possesses deep, proven expertise in STEM Publishing Services.

LaTeX Document Formatting: We are genuine industry leaders in LaTeX composition. This is essential for managing heavy mathematical formulae, scientific notation, and chemical structures with absolute precision. We handle raw TeX files, clean up complex author-generated code, and apply consistent style to ensure all equations and symbols compile and render perfectly across both print and web proofs.
Journal Design and Rapid Turnaround: We provide fast, accurate pagination for academic journals, a format where rapid turnaround times are crucial for time-sensitive research. Our workflows are optimised to reduce the time between acceptance and online publication, supporting the demands of immediate Open Access and subscription models. We also manage complex continuous publication models.
Table and Figure Management: The integration of visual and tabular data is a common point of failure. We perform meticulous placement and styling of complex tables and figures, ensuring they appear as close as possible to their textual reference while maintaining a clean, balanced page composition. We verify all captions and source lines comply with copyright requirements.

3. Automated and XML-First Workflows

To support the modern demand for multi-format, simultaneous publishing, we utilise cutting-edge publishing workflow systems built on structured content principles.

InDesign XML Automation: We strictly implement XML-first or XML-early workflows. Our InDesign templates are built to ingest tagged XML data automatically. This allows us to generate distinct outputs (Print PDF, Web PDF, ePub, HTML) from a single source file, significantly reducing errors, manual formatting time, and overall production costs.
Smart Pagination and Scripting: We leverage proprietary scripts and advanced automation tools to handle highly repetitive or rule-based tasks with speed and accuracy. This includes the automated generation of running heads, footers, folios, and the initial placement of index entries. By automating these tasks, we free our senior typesetters to focus exclusively on aesthetic adjustments and final visual quality, enhancing overall efficiency.

The Siliconchips Advantage:
Technology Meets Design

Our approach to book layout design services combines the artistic eye of a professional designer with the rigour of a software engineer. This hybrid capability is our strategic advantage.

Digital Production and Accessibility

Pagination is no longer a print-only discipline. Our content production services ensure your final layout translates perfectly to the screen while adhering to global standards for inclusivity.

Accessible PDF Creation: We are experts in creating “born-accessible” content. We integrate accessibility checks directly into the pagination process, adding the necessary logical tag structure, metadata, and reading order information to ensure the final PDF is fully compliant with Section 508 and WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) standards. This makes your content immediately navigable for screen readers and other assistive technologies.
Ebook Integration and Consistency: Because we use structured data during the typesetting process, we can seamlessly export to ePub conversion services (e.g., ePub 3.0) without creating ‘forked’ versions of your content. This guarantees that the final appearance of your content, from print to fixed-layout digital, remains consistent, eliminating costly version control issues.

Quality Control and Proofing: The Three-Point Assurance

Every page we produce undergoes a multi-layered quality check at our India delivery centre, governed by strict procedures and overseen by our UK management team. This assures near-perfect outputs before the files ever reach the author or press.

Visual Checks: Our first-tier proofing focuses on typographic excellence, meticulously examining pages to eliminate visual defects such as rivers (gaps in text), widows (single lines at the top of a page), orphans (single lines at the bottom of a page), and stacks (hyphenated words running down several lines).
Technical Validation: Before export, every file undergoes rigorous pre-flight checks. We verify that all fonts are correctly embedded, all images are high-resolution (300dpi+) and correctly linked, and that colour spaces are compliant (e.g., CMYK for print, RGB for web proofs).
Design Compliance Check: A dedicated Quality Assurance manager performs a final audit against the approved design brief, verifying margins, page numbers, heading styles, and the overall integrity of the layout against your brand standards.

Why Choose Siliconchips Services:
Our Global Differentiators

We offer a strategic partnership model that leverages the best of global talent to deliver superior end to end publishing services.

Cost-Effective India Delivery Centre

Our large-scale, dedicated operations team in India allows us to offer highly competitive rates for high-volume typesetting services and pagination projects. This structure provides you with unparalleled scalability, allowing you to easily absorb production spikes during peak seasons without the burden of increasing your fixed overhead costs. This model delivers significant long-term cost savings without compromising on the quality of the final output.

Unrivalled LaTeX and Technical Expertise

We don’t just “handle” math; we are experts in it. Our team is proficient in the most complex latex document formatting, managing the intricacies of scientific journals and textbooks with precision. This deep technical mastery makes us the preferred partner for mathematics, physics, and engineering publishers who cannot afford notation errors or structural failures.

Hybrid Workflow Capability

Unlike vendors who restrict you to a single proprietary toolset, we are platform-agnostic. We work fluently in Adobe InDesign, LaTeX, 3B2, and MSP, adapting our workflow to suit your specific project requirements, file formats, and design preferences. This flexibility ensures maximum compatibility and minimum disruption to your existing publishing systems.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Technical Capabilities

Q: Do you use automated pagination or manual typesetting?

We use a hybrid approach. For standardised layouts (like legal texts or simple journals), we utilise InDesign XML automation to handle 80-90% of the layout instantly. However, skilled typesetters always perform the final page composition and review to ensure aesthetic quality, manually adjusting elements like line breaks, tracking, and image placement to achieve a perfect page layout.

Q: Can you handle complex mathematical equations?

Absolutely. This is a core strength and one of our key differentiators. We provide specialist LaTeX typesetting services for STEM publishers. Our team is rigorously trained to code and verify complex equations, ensuring that mathematical hierarchy and symbols are rendered correctly, which is often difficult to achieve in standard word processors.

Q: What input formats do you accept?

We accept a wide range of inputs including Microsoft Word, raw LaTeX files, raw XML, and even hard copy (for content conversion services). We will clean, standardise, and prepare these files for tagging before moving them into the layout environment, ensuring data integrity from the beginning.

Process and Delivery

Q: How do you handle author corrections?

We have a streamlined, auditable workflow for handling corrections. We can accept marked-up PDFs, tracked Word files, or inputs through your proprietary online proofing systems. We incorporate changes rapidly and generate a revised proof for verification, ensuring full version control and accountability is maintained throughout the process.

Q: What are your typical turnaround times?

Our India delivery centre operates across multiple shifts, allowing us to offer industry-leading turnaround times. For a standard academic journal article, we can often turn around first proofs within 24-48 hours. Full book projects are scheduled according to complexity, but our scalable team ensures we meet even the most stringent publication dates and time-to-market targets.

Q: Do you offer design services if I don't have a template?

Yes. We offer comprehensive journal and book design services. Our creative team can design a bespoke master template for your book series or journal, defining fonts, margins, heading styles, and colour palettes that reflect your brand identity and production needs.

Standards and Formats

Q: Do you provide accessible PDFs?

Yes. We are experts in creating "born-accessible" content. During the pagination process, we add the necessary tags, alt-text (which we can help write), and reading order structure to ensure the final PDF is fully compliant with Section 508 and WCAG standards. This ensures your content is inclusive and future-proof.

Q: Can you produce eBooks alongside the print layout?

Yes. Because we use publishing workflow systems that are often XML-based, we can simultaneously output the print PDF and the ePub/Mobi files. This ensures that the content in your eBook matches your print book exactly, eliminating manual conversion and version control issues while significantly speeding up your digital distribution cycle.

Q: Is my content secure at your offshore facility?

Data security is paramount. We operate under strict ISO-certified security protocols, ensuring global best practice is followed. Our India delivery centre is a highly secure environment with controlled access, and all data transfer occurs via encrypted channels. As a UK-headquartered firm, we maintain full compliance with European and global data protection regulations like GDPR.

We thrive on challenges

We’re known for our experience with complex and technical text. Our talented programmers welcome challenging typefaces, fonts, symbols, languages, formulas, graphs and tables.

You can trust our expertise, diligence, and professionalism to make your project a seamless operation.