Adobe InDesign & Adobe InDesign Server
Adobe InDesign is a professional page-layout software applicationpublished by Adobe. The server version of InDesign named InDesign Server can be used to automate page layout and document generation.

Adobe Digital Publishing Suite
Adobe Digital Publishing Suite - DPS - is a solution used to create, produce, monetize, analyze and view publications for tablet devices. J2S can help with the integration of this solution in your environment.

AIR
Developed by Adobe, AIR is an engine used to execute Flex-based applications. This makes it possible to smoothly develop applications for the MacOS and Windows platform.

Flex
Flex is an Adobe multi-platform library used to create applications running on MacOS and Windows workstations, over the web or on mobile devices.

Template
Template is used in DTP to indicate an InDesign or QuarkXPress document which will be used as a model. It usually contains all style information required to lay out variable items in a page. In J2S solutions, we take this concept further so we prefer to talk about modules.

J2S Layout Toolbox
J2S Layout Toolbox is a solution designed and developed by J2S to automatically layout database or structured data. The designer creates layout modules with InDesign and the J2S Module Editor application. Data are usually provided as an XML file. The designer specifies the XML file and the module to be used ; J2S Layout Toolbox automatically lays out the information in the document.

J2S Module Editor
J2S Module Editor is an AIR application designed and developed by J2S to make it easier to create J2S Layout Toolbox modules that will be used to automatically generate Adobe InDesign documents.

Meta-data
Meta-data are pieces of information which are attached to the media which they describe. For example, the date of a photo and the name of the photographer which are written at the back of a photo. Metadata are most often written in accordance with a standard: IPTC, XMP, Exif, Dublin Core, DICOM…

Module
A module, for J2S, is an InDesign file which describes how to create a layout. This file is usually created using the J2S Module Editor application. A module is a set of operations. Most often, an operation triggers the placement of a block. Operations are hierarchically organized : blocks can contain other blocks which themselves can contain other blocks, etc. Some operations can be used to create blocks, insert the text extracted from a database field. Other operations are used to act upon blocks that are created by children items : for example, an operation could be set to align horizontally the blocks created by its child operations.

Plug-in
A plug-in is a programme which is inserted in host application to add new features. This is a way to add new tools in the user interface, new processes, etc. J2S is a leading company when it comes to designing and developing plug-ins for the Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat).

QuarkXPress
QuarkXPress is a professional page layout software application published by Quark.

Tag
A tag is a mark, an item used to identify information units in modules. Tags can be placed in document using the InDesign XML structure panel or ad hoc tools offered by J2S.

XML
XML is a markup language which can be extended at will (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Markup_Language). XML data are structure and stored in text files which can be opened using any text editor.

XTension
An XTension is a programme which is inserted in QuarkXPress to add new features. This is a way to add new tools in the user interface, new processes, etc.