Introduction to MasterPlan

MasterPlan from Circular Software is simple yet powerful software that connects everyone involved in creating, producing and distributing your illustrated publications.

MasterPlan Online

Allows authors, creatives and production coworkers as well as marketing and sales staff to see and securely share a single page overview of a publication then also open a retina quality, up-to-date view of every spread of every title as they evolve and are produced.

New MasterPlan jobs can easily be created from any PDF or EPUB.

MasterPlan Desktop App‍

Users can automatically update the MasterPlan Online pages whilst they work in InDesign.

Client Page‍

The Client Page is a top level view of all jobs that can be viewed directly in any modern browser. From this one page you see the title, job info, cover image and status of all the spreads within the publication.

Job Page

In WORK mode, the Job Page is a living flat plan that shows spread status count and an up-to-date thumbnail view of all spreads for a MasterPlan WORK job. Hovering or tapping on a spread thumbnail shows information on when the spread was last updated and a button to Viewing & Commenting.

In LIVE mode, the Job Page shows a thumbnail preview of every spread in the publication available publicly or to the current logged-in user.

Spread Statuses

Each spread of a MasterPlan WORK job has a colour coded status applied. Use your own agreed statuses to indicate the position of your spread in your workflow such as “Text Editing” or “Proofed”.

Status bars are shown at the top right of the MasterPlan WORK Job Page, and also on the Client Page, showing the status name, colour and a total and percentage of spreads that have that status for the job.

Spread Thumbnails

Retina quality thumbnails for each spread are displayed on the Job Page. The spread number is shown in bottom left corner of each spread. In WORK mode, other quick visual information is also added. A coloured line on the left of the thumbnail indicates its status.

Spread Info

In WORK mode, hovering over a thumbnail in the Job Page (or tapping on a touch screen device) reveals more information about that spread.

Job Admin

Job Admin Users can specify Publication and Viewer Type, control access and sharing options for the publication, create and add cover files, enable watermarking and more.

Client Admin

Client Admin Users can manage jobs and users centrally in the admin area of MasterPlan Online.

Clients can easily invite new users, including freelancers, to join them in MasterPlan without the end user needing to arrange their own subscription.

Client Admin users also have extra power to manage users, choose who can view and comment, alter status labels, create Embed Codes and more.