The quality and appearance of your documentation can influence a potential client’s decision to purchase. Quality document design occurs not only by using professional information design tools, but also by having a clear plan for your project and engaging an experienced, professional service to execute that plan.

AVS partners with you to work through the goal definition, planning, and execution of your project, together developing an understanding of the final deliverable, a schedule, and definition of relevant standards.

The AVS information design team will create your documentation professionally and accurately, recommending the most-appropriate design tools for your project. Based on your defined goals, we prepare an overall project plan and recommend any necessary additional elements such as writing, editing, or graphics creation.

Your new, professionally constructed documents will be more readable, more accurate, and most importantly, more appealing to your clients.

Our information design services include

• New document design and layout
• FrameMaker®
• QuarkXPress®
• PageMaker®
• InDesign®
• Microsoft® Publisher
• Microsoft® Word
• Web
• Legacy document conversion
• Print production

AVS uses professional document-design software to put your information content into an appealing package. We work with diverse projects that can involve sales-promotion materials, technical manuals, special-event flyers, catalogs, assembly instructions, and so on.

The AVS information design team interfaces with in-house graphic-design experts, writers, and copy editors—experienced with various software programs on multiple platforms—who edit content and oversee the preparation of illustrations, photographs, and other visual collateral material.

AVS projects often include requirements for expanded services such as video, presentations, interactive media, instructional design, or Web design. AVS has in-house experts in these and other disciplines to meet your needs.

Legacy documents that have been created using a word-processing program, such as Microsoft® Word, can be converted by AVS into professional documents that utilize the inherent additional features offered by document-creation tools.

The information design team can provide final native and PDF files for your internal print management. Or, if you prefer to receive printed documents as the final deliverable, AVS maintains working relationships with regional print vendors.

The AVS writing team is an integral part of the information design process, providing primary writing and copy editing services along with over 25 years of engineering experience. AVS often works directly with client engineers to prepare documentation for both technical audiences and general readership.

The AVS information design team includes FrameMaker specialists with many years of documentation design know-how. We are experienced with using FrameMaker’s advanced capabilities to effectively handle the more-complex entities—and at multiple levels.

• Cross-references
• Tables of contents
• Indexing
• List generation
• Autonumbering
• Mathematical equations
• HTML exporting
• And much more...