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hibrahim1-Visitor
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February 23, 2015
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  • February 23, 2015
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Greetings;

This is my first time here in the community, we working in academic publishing,

I just want to know who could help us to decide if APP will help in the current workflow of our company or not ?

Thanks in advance.

Best answer by TimPhelps

There are 2 products here that we could be discussing.

I am not sure which you are speaking about.

Are you speaking about using Arbortext Editor, Arbortext Styler and the Arbortext Publishing Engine,

or are you speaking about Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher?

Both systems handle graphics, tables, large indexes, landscape and portrait pages and large 1000+ page documents well.

Your best bet would be to speak with a PTC sales representative, so that you can define your current applications, flow process and desired goals.

Tim

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TimPhelps12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
February 23, 2015

Are you working with Arbortext Products, Arbortext Editor, Arbortext Publishing Engine?

Are you using either of the other composition forms, FOSI, XSL-FO?

Are you using Arbortext Styler?

Are you think of using the Arbortext Advanced Publishing Enterprise product?


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hibrahim1-VisitorAuthor
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February 23, 2015

‌From what i understod (after watching your videos) that APP could have start point of an XML file of the article (correct me if it's wrong), we currently use MS word to mark up the document, and then transform it to archival XML file, the real problem we currently face is the manual layout changes (columns balancing, floats placing etc.) in the PDF.

Regarding your main question, we don't use any of Arbortext products.

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TimPhelps12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
February 23, 2015

Arbortext Editor works with XML documents.

It uses document type files, .dtd, or schema files, .xsd, to define the structure of the XML documents.

Authors create or edit XML documents using Arbortext Editor.

The stylesheets are used for defining the look of the document in PDF, HTML or other output forms.

The styling can be done for an APP compostion engine, a FOSI composition engine or an XSL-FO composition engine.

The default composition engine is the APP composition engine.

The publishing is done with either Arbortext Publishing Engine, Arbortext Styler or a print compose license.

Arbortext Editor, Arbortext Publishing Engine and Arbortext Styler are licensed products.

To compose an XML document one needs to have

1) a dtd or schema that defines its structure

2) a .dcf file to define certain element functionality. Which elements are considered graphics, which are defining bold, italic, etc., which are paragraphs, etc.

3) a stylesheet that defines the page layout, the headers and footer layout and content, element styling, vertical space between elements and its flexibility, etc.

4) Arbortext Publishing Engine, Styler or print composer license to perform the composition

This is a small description of just the output process.

There is much more available for larger solutions, like content managment systems, translation, graphic creation, service information managment, and more.

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TimPhelps12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
March 10, 2015

Hesham,

Did you get the assistance that you needed?

Tim

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