Arbortext Tips

Everyone wants a great cover on their documents. Creating cool covers and nice-looking title pages don’t need to be done in another tool, you can do that right in Styler! In this session, we’ll show you how to break down a page and create the regions you need to create the cover you

PTC Arbortext 6.1 M090 and APP 11.0 M110 are now available for download. Please refer to Release notes and documentation for more details.Documentation for Arbortext 6.1 M090Release NotesCustomer SPR Fixes in 6.1 M090Software Compatibility MatricesDownloadPTC Software download siteDocumentation

In July, I released my first book: Arbortext 101. It's an accumulation of 12 years of hard earned experience and a response to customers coming to us Arbortext environments that were configured more to keep the customer dependent on the consultant than the benefit of the customer

In this session, we’re going to talk about tables. Want to change the table from a simple block of tabulated data into something pretty and easy to scan? Want alternating colored rows? Want a fancy border around the table? With Arbortext Styler, you have access to the APP Engine for

In this session, we'll show you some tricks for setting up headers and footers and the content contained in them. Add a rule above or below? Simple! Add a compound page number? A breeze! Make your header stand out with a different font or different size? Piece of cake! Want to

Key Functional HighlightsDebugger improvementsAdditional controls – page up/down, run current script, reformat, saveManage tags – create, rename, change type, deleteTabbed tag editor – open multiple tags at onceImproved console – JavaScript and formatting errors, user logOpacityPDF

We are excited to announce the availability of PTC Windchill Service Information Manager (SIM) & PTC Windchill Service Parts (SP) 11.0 M010 for immediate download!Key Functional HighlightsSupport for ordering in Information StructuresManage Applicability dialog support for multiple

We are excited to provide Arbortext 7.0 M030 for immediate download!Some key features:Arbortext Editor user interface for authoring inline applicabilityAbility to open IsoDraw or Creo/Illustrate Graphics stored in Windchill from Arbortext EditorAbility to use xpath in graphics location

One of the most powerful mechanisms available to you as a stylesheet developer is the creation and use of property sets. Property sets help you abstract formatting needs into reusable components. Want consistent level 1 headers? Create a property set that you can use every time your

In this session, we’re going to talk about the Side-By-Side panel in Styler. We’ll talk about what it means, how best to use it, and how to make it work for you. We’ll show you how to make it look like you’ve got a graphic embedded in a paragraph, with text spilling around it, through

One of the last things that gets localized is your stylesheet. Stylesheets have generated text and that generated text needs to be translated too. (After all it isn't "Table of Contents" in Japanese.) In this session, we'll show you how to set your stylesheet up for

Hi All,I am pleased to announce that PTC Arbortext Editor/Styler/Architect/Publishing Engine 7.0 M020 and PTC Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher 11.2 M020 are now available for customer download from the PTC Software Download page under “Order or Download Software Updates”. For more

Using workspaces in Arbortext Content Manager (or Windchill) can be a bit confusing. How do you keep it clean? When should you create one? How long should you keep a workspace? How do you know which one to us (if you have several)? And, hey, while we're at it, why might you have

Hello all-The PTC Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher 11.0 M100 release is now available for customers to download.  The release is available from the PTC Software Download page under “Order or Download Software Updates”.  It is located under the “Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher”

I am pleased to announce that PTC Arbortext Editor/Styler/Architect/Publishing Engine 6.1 M080 is now available for customer download from the PTC Software Download page under “Order or Download Software Updates”. For more details regarding this maintenance release, please check out

To kick off our TC Dojo Arbortext Edition, we took your requests and decided to jump right in to Styler. In this first session, we will show you how to build your foundation for your first Arbortext Style Sheet using the Single-Sourcing Solutions’ method. This is how we create new

In Arbortext 7.0, creating, editing, and manipulating DITA maps is easy to do! In this session we show you the basics for how it works.This session is accessible to Beginners just getting started with Arbortext and DITAView the RecordingThe video is now available for viewing from

If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area (or within a short flight), TC Camp is coming up in 23 January 2016.If you haven't been to an unconference, you should know these aren't like regular conferences. There are no juried presentations. No powerpoint. No waiting through

We go to XML publishing for a lot of reasons. One of which is to achieve reusability of our information: Write it Once, Use it Anywhere. Often, beginning stylesheet developers will do a lot of repeated style coding to achieve desired output results. This style duplication, like information

In this webinar, we demonstrate the DITA feature keyrefs and conkeyrefs in Arbortext. The keyref and conkeyref mechanisms allow you to easily switch variable content. We will demonstrate how to create keys and key references; how to combine keys with maps for easier manageability;

I am pleased to announce that the following are now available for customer download!PTC Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher 11.1 M010Release NotesPTC Arbortext Editor/Styler/Architect/Publishing Engine 7.0 M010 Editor/Styler/Architect Release NotesSPR Fixes