Maarten van Vulpen

Customer Success Manager at Fonto - Passionate runner and Dad

Fonto 8.18: Taking control of comments, and output that looks right the first time 

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Review cycles shouldn’t slow your team down, and publishing shouldn’t mean fixing formatting by hand. Fonto 8.18 gives reviewers real tools for handling large volumes of feedback, and delivers faster, more Word-faithful output with support for redline documents.  Fonto Review: Handle feedback at scale  Large documents attract large numbers of comments. Two new features in

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The path from unstructured​ documents to structured data

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At Frankfurter Buchmesse, the story that resonated most was not about technology. It was about transformation. When Peter Portela, Director of Standards Product Development at the American Welding Society (AWS), took the Innovation Stage alongside Lars Schlatermund from Ebcont and Maarten van Vulpen from Fonto, he described a challenge that many standards organizations, associations, publishers

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Fonto 8.17: Smarter reviews. Better publishing. Greater confidence.

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Every content team wants the same thing: a publishing process they can trust. Reviewers need clear feedback, authors expect their content to appear exactly as intended, and organizations rely on seamless integrations to keep critical workflows moving.  Fonto 8.17 strengthens every step of that process. This release delivers a smoother review experience, more accurate and consistent publishing output, and deeper

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SES Annual Conference 2026: from documents to decisions, the new life of a standard 

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For most of their history, standards have had a clear destination: the PDF. Write the content, reach consensus, and publish the document. Job done.  But the world that consumes standards has changed. Compliance is no longer primarily a human reading a document and making a judgment call. It is engineers’ querying requirements across a portfolio. It is procurement

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From documents to decisions: how structured authoring is changing what a standard can do 

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 There is a question that sounds almost too simple for a professional conference: what is a standard, actually? Not in a formal, definitional sense. In a practical one. What is it that a standards organization produces and hands to the world?  The instinctive answer is a document. A carefully structured, rigorously reviewed document. The result of months or

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A new season, a new balance: Sven Roosen on the road to the European Championships in Birmingham

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For decathlete Sven Roosen, 2026 feels like a fresh start. Not because his ambitions have changed, they remain sky-high, but because the way he views his sport has fundamentally shifted. After a year marked by physical setbacks and mental lessons, he begins the new season with a clear focus: build, enjoy, and trust the process.

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Fonto 8.16: Built for better collaboration and consistent output 

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Fonto 8.16 focuses on what matters most in day-to-day content creation: reliability, smooth collaboration, and a more intuitive review experience. This release builds on recent innovations like Suggestion Mode, refining them with real-world feedback to make workflows more predictable and efficient.  At the same time, we’re strengthening the foundation of the Fonto platform, from more robust concurrent editing and improved

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From documents to actionable knowledge: standards adoption in an AI-first world

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In a world where everyone feels compelled to put AI on the first slide, Patrice Canonne opened his recent webinar with a wink, and then got very real, very fast: standards are changing, and the organizations behind them need to modernize how standards are authored, structured, and delivered if they want to stay relevant (and useful).  “The

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Fonto 8.15: Suggest, Review, and Perform at Scale

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Fonto 8.15 is a milestone release that brings reviewing and collaboration to the next level, while continuing to strengthen the performance, stability, and cohesion of the Fonto platform. Fonto Editor & Review  We are beyond excited to announce the initial release of Suggestion Mode. We have worked tirelessly for over a year to add a new mode that

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Maarten van Vulpen presenting at the Innovation stage at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2025

Structured content and AI: get your publications out better and faster

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Last Thursday at the Frankfurter Buchmesse, Maarten van Vulpen presented on the Innovation Stage about how structured content and AI together can transform the way publishers create, manage, and distribute content. This well-received talk built on last year’s presentation, Feeding AI Models with Structured Content: The Power of XML ,but this time went further, showing

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