Composition

key benefits Integrate with document creation tools Improve speed and flexibility with multiple user access and simultaneous input Eliminate potential for discrepancies using a single-source file system Create style intensive documents required by mutual fund documents

Exceeding your composition requirements

Authoring a financial document is usually a prelude to printing or a step in the SEC EDGAR filing process. You want the content to be typeset and potentially stylized (as commonly seen in mutual fund documents). The composition process must be fast, accurate and allow for revisions.

The output must be available in multiple formats, such as PDF or HTML. And ideally, the entire project would integrate seamlessly with the system you used for document creation, quickening the pace of the project and minimizing potential transcription errors.

Merrill’s composition services meet and exceed all of these requirements. Our systems excel because they do integrate with document creation tools like QuarkXPress® or Microsoft® Word. They allow large projects to be parsed and worked on simultaneously, providing tremendous speed and flexibility to clients.

They keep to a single source, meaning that all changes happen to one file and one file is output to many formats (SEC EDGAR, typeset, PDF, HTML, XML). In addition, our enhanced desktop production group uses a variety of tools to create style-intensive documents and handle color and font requirements typically seen in mutual fund documents.