One of the principal problems in the transmission of ONIX files is without a doubt the transmission of external files which should accompany the titles: extracts from books in PDF format, pictures of the authors, the cover page, the back cover and flaps, video and audio interviews, etc.; in short, all the promotional material designed to support sales. Of course it is easy to transmit the ONIX file to your business partner by email or using an FTP program. But what becomes of these media files? How can you be certain that everything has been sent? How can you be sure that the images are the right size? Or that there aren’t two files with the same name, which would lead to frustrating errors? How will your business partner be able to locate things if you send him all in one an ONIX file of a hundred titles with all the pictures, illustrations, and book extracts? Is this a problem that worries you?


ONIXEDIT offers you a simple and effective solution! Each ONIXEDIT PRO user (optional with the regular version) has a private space on our web portal. This is your Media Space. In this media space, ONIXEDIT standardizes and classifies your media files associated with your titles, no matter from what source, and does it in two simple steps.


1- You associate the title with your media files found on your hard disk, or from a server accessed from your computer:


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2- When you have finished the data entry for your titles and the association of the external files accompanying them, you use the ONIXEDIT function “Upload Media Files”:


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Once transferred, local references to your media files are automatically transformed to URL references, pointing to a corresponding object in your private media space. This space is a kind of website which is reserved for you, and which has only one function: making your standardized media files available on the Internet. Your trading partners, who receive your ONIX files, will be able to easily and rapidly recover these files directly from your media space which is accessible twenty-four hours a day. Further, you don't even have to worry about the name given to your media files. There is no danger that two files having the same name could be mixed because the files are adopted by the system and if necessary a unique name will be given to each one. A simple solution which will save time for you and your partners!