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Pupil Edition Textbook Product Creation: 
Electronic File Flow Chart

• Market Research
• Writing- Out of house Authors
• Editing/Revising
• Editorial/Design Collaboration
  • Involves are selection/creation color palette choice, phot research, obtaining the rights of third party materials
• Page composition/1st pass
• Includes photo shoots, scanning of images
• Editorial/Design Revision
• Page composition - 2nd pass
• Ship to Film Supplier
• Film/Proofs generated
• Proofs checked and revised, files revised at outside supplier
• Final film/plates generated
• Printing-additional changes may be made on press and not reflected in final electronic file
• Files shipped back to publisher, On-press changes incorporated
• Final Product - 1st printing Pupil Edition (used for submission purposes
• State Submission
• State requests changes and publisher submit a list of changes
• changes incorporated into electronic files
• shipped to film Supplier
• Final film/plates generated
• Printing- additional changes may be made on press and not reflected in final electronic file
• Files shipped back to publisher. On-press changes incorporated.
• Final Product for classroom use

Developed from flowchart provided by AAP Oct. 2, 1999

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