Enterprises need to produce a lot of digital docume nts: from internal reports to official documentatio n, from confidential data to public advertisements, fr om customers' letters to worksheets, and so on. The process of editing and publishing typographically sophisticated documents is difficult and very often outsourced. The production of such documents, in fa ct, still requires competencies and resources that only professional typesetters can provide. In this paper we present a flexible architecture designed e ither to improve professional publishing processes or to make it easier authoring and publishing for inexper t users: combining automatic content extraction with advanced formatting techniques, we automatically produce high-quality documents, in particular PDF f iles. Actually, both input and output documents can be expressed in different data formats. IsaPress is a java implementation of such architecture, based on a set of format-specific smart parsers, XSLT meta-stylesheets and an improved version of FOP.