About Mekon
Mekon Ltd. based in south London is the market leader in the publishing technology including single source content creation to multiple output delivery; Web, CD and hard copy. The Mekon services and solutions offer industry a cost effective, time saving answer to critical document delivery, ensuring fast accurate output of information essential in today's business environment. The benefits of single source publishing come from creating the content once and then processing the information into the different output formats. This saves time and ensures accuracy in the delivered media. Mekon's portfolio of major clients in industry, aviation and government combined with their partnership with Adobe has made them the principal solution providers in publishing technology.

Subsystem AIP
The AIP provides the following functionality:

• Creation and modification of AIPs,
• Generation of AIRAC Amendments, Non-AIRAC Amendments, Supplements, AICs,
• Database connectivity allowing linked data from AIP database to the document,
• AIP Management allows an AIP to be added to the database. The AIP Manager is then used to manage files, security and workflow,
• Insertion of change bars at the point where a document has been modified,
• Creation of PDF (Portable Format Files) files of the AIP,
• Report generation of all changes and tracking information.

FrameAPS
FrameAPS for Windows NT/2000 works exclusively with Adobe FrameMaker providing all the necessary enhancements usually not found in DTP tools which are specific to AIS documentation. In addition to detailed proven templates, advanced functions include: document version control, AIRAC and non-AIRAC amendment tracking, change bar generation and AIXM based database connectivity.

The fundamental principle behind FrameAPS is that AIP sections are maintained in an Oracle database called the AIP Manager. Text changes and adjustments to these sections are recorded with an effective date and all critical data is generated by links to the SDO Database.

FrameAPS generates a new version of the AIP by synchronisation with the Oracle-based SDO database running on an HP Unix System, automatically inserting change bars while producing a detailed report on all changes.

Once a new version is approved, a new List of AIP Pages and a Table of Contents can be generated across all three sections (GEN, ENR and AD). The changed pages are now ready for publishing for the next AIRAC or non-AIRAC issue of the AIP which are automatically printed to PDF.

The principal difference between the FrameAPS COTS product and the version to be used for EAD is that EAD provides its own SDO database, which is validated and maintained, independently to FrameAPS.