Depending on the source material - subject matter, media, formatting, language, and presence of non-standard characters or handwritten annotations - and the customer's accuracy requirements, a comprehensive solution is appropriately adopted, in offering Typesetting and Composition outsourcing services.

Our specialists in typesetting and composition outsourcing services, are familiar with a broad range of content and layout complexities, the formats, fonts, and special characters as well as high-end pagination software to digitally merge text, illustrations and tabular constructs into complex pages.

Chevron's hands-on experience in QuarkXPress, InDesign, TeX, LaTeX, PageMaker, FrameMaker along with our unique customized sequential tool, has enabled accuracy in structure of the document, speed of turnaround, and finally speed to market, for several publishers in US and Europe. This essentially explains the success of our typesetting & composition, e-publishing and document conversion outsourcing services across the globe.

Our Typesetting and composition work flow process involves:
   Page composition
   Copy editing and document structuring
   Content capture and conversion
   Reference linking and Indexing

QuarXpress
 We use Quark for magazines and books that are heavily designed and illustrated. We also have extensions for tables and mathematical/formula settings on Quark. The range of projects for which we use Quark: Plain text - novels, social science books, etc. Columnar format periodicals - text jobs with 2 or more columns involving significant design work School textbooks, color books and children's books that are design-intensive and involve substantial special effects
Conventional books/journals with simple imaging and graphing manipulation.

TeX-LaTeX
We are specialized in handling complex mathematical & scientific composition using TeX/LaTeX. We can undertake jobs in TeX or LaTeX with customer provided style/class files; alternatively, we can develop style/class files based on your specific needs. This is ideally suited for heavy mathematical and scientific sets. TeX offers the versatility of being platform-independent.

Our in-house production team with Latex2e is a high speed and versatile auto pagination and conversion system that can paginate from source SGML/XML files - an ideal solution for clients publishing in different media with full-text of SGML/XML.

Since we specialize in handling heavy mathematical/complex sets using Latex2e features, as part of production support we have developed a big range of style/class files.

In case of electronic files provided by the customer, after checking your work for spelling, punctuation, and stylistic errors we'll send you sample pages, with different design elements for you to choose from.

Error free text with embedded tags received from the production department is loaded in the relevant page make-up software to begin formatting of the book. Next we'll send you complete formatted galleys for you to proofread and mark up, or the formatted pages are then printed and moved to the Quality Assurance department for proofreading.

Finally we will inspect the blue line before your book is printed.

MS Word
A credible solution for simple text in the humanities, medical, legal, commercial and popular press fields. A popular platform for most authors, it is often easier to typeset documents in Word and it serves as an effective pre-process tool when all the features of the software are utilized. This platform offers several advantages: Strong backward compatibility; large number of conversion filters and OLE technology, all permit near-seamless conversion of manuscripts into typeset files with high levels of complexity. Supports Unicode consisting of nearly 40,000 characters used in almost any language in the world, and right-to-left scripts like Hebrew and Arabic .High degree of automation which can reduce laborious tasks like generating and updating front and back matter content with a single mouse click
Reduced turnaround times  Word can be manipulated as a .COM object to produce XML, thereby enabling high versatility in e-Publishing.