Method and system for publishing electronic media to a document management system in various publishing formats independent of the media creation application

A computer program to publish electronic media having a set of instructions that when executed by a computer causes the computer to:

• identify a command from a user to manage an electronic media;
• access the electronic media;
• initialize a media publisher independent of a media creation application and configured to control publication of the electronic media, wherein the media publisher is further configured to transform the content of the electronic media into at least one publication format;
• receive a media control instruction from the user to transform the content of the electronic media into at least one publication format;
• and
• publish the content of the electronic media in accordance with the received media control instruction.

A printer driver embodying a sequence of instructions that when executed by a processor causes the processor to:

• (A) access an electronic data file;
• (B) display a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to facilitate user selection of a number of publication commands;
• (C) receive a user selection of at least one publication command;
• (D) route the electronic data file to a converter configured to convert the electronic data file into at least one of a number of publication formats;
• and
• (E) transmit the converted data file to at least one publication system capable of publishing the converted data file in the at least one publication format.

A system for publishing documents to a document management system comprising:

• a computerized network
• a readable memory electronically linked to the network;
• a plurality of computers connected to the network, wherein at least one of the plurality of computers, displays electronic data to a user in the form of a graphical user interface (GUI);
• a processing unit programmed to call the GUI on demand and enable a user selection of one or more publication formats, wherein the one or more publication formats include publication formats non-native to a creation document format;
• and
• wherein the processing unit is further programmed to convert a document to at least one of the publication formats.