Releases by Managing Editor Inc.:

May 25, 2012 - Industry-leading software and custom scripting make it easy for popular entertainment magazine to repurpose print content for tablets. MEI announced that it provided the production software behind the brand-new Us Weekly iPad app, US Weekly Magazine 1.0. With the Us team's expertise in the Adobe tools, adopting vjoon K4 and DPS for tablet production was a logical evolution, users can access content locally and make changes just as they would for print.

May 17, 2012 - Managing Editor Inc. today is pleased to announce continued growth for the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. MEI has worked closely with Adobe on DPS and is the leading Adobe DPS reseller worldwide. DPS Enterprise customers can create and configure customized, dynamic landing views and storefronts using MEI Portico, the company's new DPS add-on solution. Adobe DPS provides a robust end-to-end publishing solution for creation, distribution, commercialization and analysis of high-value content.

May 08, 2012 - Managing Editor Inc. (MEI) today announced that MEI Portico, a branded landing view and custom storefront solution for apps built using the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, is now available for purchase. Portico makes it easy for tablet-app publishers to configure multiple gateways for showcasing user-targeted content, organizing issues for easier navigation and purchase, presenting dynamic news or social media feeds, and much more. MEI Portico is available for purchase now.

May 01, 2012 - Managing Editor Inc. today announced that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is now using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to produce the iPad edition of its quarterly magazine, the HHMI Bulletin. HHMI hired MEI's design and production team to help create upcoming tablet issues of the magazine as well as to rebuild existing iPad issues using Adobe DPS. MEI also enhanced the folios with new features, including social-media linking and sharing.

Apr 01, 2012 - Managing Editor Inc. (MEI) congratulates Bloomberg Businessweek on its recent website redesign, which went live earlier this month. New York-based Bloomberg L.P., one of the world's leading providers of financial information and analysis, uses version 6 of the vjoon K4 Cross-Media Publishing Platform for managing and delivering content to the site, as well as several of its other output channels. MEI is the exclusive distributor of vjoon K4 in the Americas.

Mar 25, 2012 - Managing Editor Inc. (MEI) congratulates Mexico City's Excelsior for being named one of the World's Best Designed Newspapers by the Society for News Design. An MEI customer since 2006, Excelsior uses the vjoon K4(TM) Cross-Media Publishing Platform and MEI's Page Director Ad Layout System (ALS) in its daily production workflow. The World's Best, part of SND's 33rd annual Best of News Design competition, were announced in February. Excelsior was placed at the top of the category's 230 entries.

Mar 16, 2012 - The Internet comedy juggernaut that is Funny Or Die has a new interactive iPad magazine, and MEI helped. "The Occasional," available now by single issue or subscription on the iTunes Newsstand, expands the Funny Or Die brand with magazine-style original content, multimedia, games and other interactive components. The app was built using the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, the preeminent solution for Adobe InDesign-based tablet publishing.

Mar 10, 2012 - MEI has announced Software expert Stephen Arbour will showcase techniques for automating and accelerating cross-media publishing with XML at XTech 2012 on Friday, March 16. The educational seminar, hosted by IDEAlliance, will be held at the Embassy Suites O'Hare in Rosemont, Ill., and can also be attended virtually via real-time webcast. Arbour will be speaking at 9:30 a.m. Central Time on Friday, March 16. He has 15 years experience in software product leadership and development.

Feb 25, 2012 - MEI has announced the appointment of Dave Gillespie as senior account director. Gillespie will focus on winning new markets in the western United States and Canada. Gillespie previously was a senior corporate account manager for Adobe Systems, where he oversaw Fortune 500 accounts in the media and entertainment market. As an accomplished graphic designer and a multiple winner of Adobe's #1 Account Manager award, he brings both a production and business perspective to his client engagements.