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INFOCON is now offering special pricing for all draft publication processing services offered to DOD organizations during the first quarter of 2009. This offer includes fully AFI 33-360 compliant document tagging and integration for as low as $10 per page!

INFOCON offers these services on an ongoing basis and will provide quotes for document tagging and integration to any organization within the US Air Force. We accept draft documents in Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF, and other formats, and return fully formatted, structured, and integrated XML, SGML, and PDF files.

INFOCON was the sole provider of the contracted service responsible for all tagging and integration of US Air Force documents and publications from August 2000 to September 2008, and produced over eight hundred thousand pages of XML, SGML, and PDF documents for the Air Force Departmental Publishing Office.

Some of the key benefits of our draft publication processing services include: (click each bullet point to expand)

• Proper Formatting and Structuring

  Our document specialists convert your Microsoft Word draft publications to properly formatted Adobe PDF and valid XML and SGML documents. We ensure that your documents comply with the most recent version of Air Force Instruction 33-360.

  • Formatting standardization including:
    • Standardized front matter conforming to AFI33-360
    • Standardized page headers
    • Justified text alignment
    • Section, Chapter, and Part formatting
    • Proper Signature Block placement
    • Proper indentation of sub-paragraphs
  • Returned XML and SGML documents will conform to the USAF Document Type Definition and the DOD mandate for XML and SGML
  • Linked internal cross references and external URLs
  • Proper numbering of document elements
  • Table of Contents added for all documents over twenty pages
  • Returned PDFs are fully bookmarked
• Supplement Integration and Interim Change Incorporation

  Supplements will be fully integrated into core documents, with full and correct structure, numbering, tables of contents, cross references, front matter, and bookmarks. INFOCON can return stand-alone supplements as well, if required by the OPR. In addition, we can integrate multiple levels of supplements (supplements to supplements).

  Interim Changes (ICs) will be fully and properly incorporated into core documents. As with supplements, structure, numbering, tables of contents, cross references, front matter and bookmarks are added to all incorporated ICs.

• Limited Requirements on Document Authors

  We place very few requirements on document authors. Our tools allow us to process documents that have essentially no formatting. Authors should concern themselves with content, not with making documents look pretty.

  • There is no need to learn or use new templates for each document type. Create your Word documents the way you want; we will return properly formatted PDFs.
  • We work with the images that are embedded in your Word documents, so we do not require separate image files in order to process AF documents.
  • No special formatting needs to be applied to the front matter, tables, figures, etc. in your draft documents. Our tools ensure that returned PDFs are properly formatted and have complete front matter.
  • We search for and create all internal cross-references during our process. Authors are not required to mark cross-references by bolding text, applying special character formats, etc.
  • We add fully linked Tables of Contents to all documents longer than twenty pages, as required by AFI 33-360, and can add them to any document as needed.
• One Business Day Turnaround

  Documents of any type not exceeding 500 pages will be fully processed, integrated, and returned to the customer in one business day. Longer documents will be returned within 3 business days. INFOCON offers priority processing if needed by OPRs.

• Manual Review of Every Document

  INFOCON prides itself on the level of service we provide our customers. Our Air Force Document Specialists review every document we produce to ensure their completeness and correctness. We perform a page by page visual comparison between each source and completed document. In addition, we use tools developed specifically for Air Force document processing to check for:

  • Correct paragraph numbering
  • Valid cross-references and web links
  • Correct and complete front matter
  • Properly linked and correctly numbered tables of contents
  • Formatting according to the latest Air Force guidelines

For more information, please contact us:

          Phone: 302-239-2942
          Email: afpubs@infocon.com