Arbortext Tips

Do you have content in both DocBook and DITA? Are you worried that it has to be one or the other? Two doctypes means two stylesheets, right? It's not as bad as you think! If you've been following the teachings at the Dojo and using best practices, you're already using

Today's exercises in video conversion remind me of the browser wars in the 1990s. There is no end to the pain of figuring out formats that will play well in everyone's browser on everyone's OS. Especially if you want to host the videos yourself. When you do as many videos

Windchill PartsLink enables the construction of a hierarchy of classification nodes but applies this to WTParts.  This functionality would be very powerful if applied to Dynamic Documents to support reuse of information... helping users find what already exists and is available for

Last week I wrote about the Creo Illustrate 2.0 Part 1 video.  Did you have a chance to take a look? If not I encourage you to do so when you have a moment. Today I would like to highlight part 2 in the Creo Illustrate 2.0 video series.Creo Illustrate 2.0 provides you with 3D Technical

Have you heard about the latest Arbortext Video Series found right here on the PTC Community? These short videos from product experts review the newest features, functions and enhancements included in Arbortext products and our Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) solutions. You will

An article on the technical and product evolution of Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher (formerly the 3B2 Publishing System)English / Italian(Article content as published in the UK ISTC Communicator Journal 2010)

Today's Service Lifecycle Management and Arbortext sessions theme has been around poor service performance. Everyone has a poor service experience. If you want to start a conversation at lunch tomorrow with the person sitting next to you bring it up. Service experiences can be

Today at 2:30 Mike Sundquist, PTC is presenting on the topic of  Product-Centric Technical Information in Gatlin A-3. I asked him what his presentation will cover, take a look and I hope you can join us. Video Link : 3047

I just arrived in Orlando for PlanetPTC 2012. This is my 6th PlanetPTC conference and as always it is still honor to attend.  This year brings new excitement with new role marketing for PTC’s Service Lifecycle Management Solutions. I am excited to meet some new faces and of course

Great news, with the upcoming release of the Arbortext Aerospace and Defense (AAD) software, 4.4 M030, users will be able to publish Creo 3D to the IETP viewer!  In the prior maintenance release, AAD 4.4 M020, a new enhancement allowed CSDB users  (through Arbortext Authoring Interface)

You get it. You understand the value for having your content in XML. Perhaps you are already there or on your way. Now you have all of your content tagged and structured for optimal reuse. You breathe a sigh of relief.  Then you get the request to produce high quality designed outputs

Not quite...There are not only different levels or versions of PDF, but there are also standards of PDF which are required for different consumers of the document. Each have their own specific requirements and each present their own challenges. I'm going to have a look at some

Recently, I been asked a few times about the Advanced Print Publisher's integration with Styler and the Publishing Engine. I have also heard some incorrect discriptions of how things work, so I thought I would take this opportunity to clear things up and give you some extra information

This is the third and final posting from me on the new functionality coming in the M020 release of Styler 6.0. This time I look at some work we've been doing to improve the accessibility of HTML and PDF output from Styler.Anyone familiar with document requirements for governmental

This is the third posting on the new functionality coming in the M020 release of Arbortext Styler 6.0. This time I'm looking at EPUB which, over the past year or so has been an increasingly populer request to output from Styler. I guess some of this is generated by the smart phone

Read Simon Taylor's column (it's really the "Styler" tag, but he's the main contributor so far).He's just getting started, but he's got a lot of good information going in there about what's coming down the road for Arbortext Styler. So far it's

It seems as though I've earned the "Bill Shakespeare" badge for...as I was told...For starting your own blog and writing 10 blogs posts related to CAD, PLM or PTC products in general, here is your “Bill Shakespeare” badge. Feel free to display it proudly on your PlanetPTC

This is the second post giving updates on Styler 6.0 M020, this time looking at the indexing enhancements we’re making available in this release.Historically, Styler has only had the ability to create a single index. From M020 you will be able to have lots! So, if you want a general

In the next two or three weeks I’ll be posting some more information about the forthcoming features provided in Styler in the M020 release of Arbortext 6.0.There were a lot of new features we wanted to provide in 6.0 and we managed to fit a lot it, but some features had to wait. So

For those of you who frequently attend conferences and seminars, I wanted to provide you with a list of upcoming events where Arbortext is either sponsoring or exhibiting. We are constantly adding to this list and I will try to update as needed. Keep in mind we have Arbortext representation

We get a lot of questions about whether you can use Arbortext with the Open Toolkit.  The answer is, "Yes, of course," but any further details are difficult unless you know what the questioner means by that: "Arbortext" is a portfolio of products that includes an editor,