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I'd like to encourage the users of this community to participate and attend our LiveWorx 2016 conference. It will take place in Boston, MA from June 6-9, 2016.   The call for participation is now open: LiveWorx : Contribute Your Story to LiveWorx 2016. ‌   Please select "Service Lifecyle Management" as the category for submitting anything related to Arbortext, Creo Illustrate, Service Information Manager etc.. We are very interested in hearing from you, and having you share with us and your peers about how you use the products, how you benefit, what advice you have for the rest of us! This will be a great opportunity to network, and we want to focus on you- the users!! So help me to make this happen- and plan on presenting and/or attending. (Presenters receive complimentary registration for the event).   If you have any questions- feel free to reach out to me directly and I'll try to help out.   Thanks again! Pushpinder

Arbortext 6.1 M070 is now available for download from the ptc.com Support site.For more details regarding this maintenance release, please check out the release notes:For Arbortext Editor/Styler/ArchitectFor SPR Fixes in the release

The PTC SLM Solution Management Team invites you to our upcoming PTC Technical Information Solutions User Community Webcast Series! We are hosting a monthly webcast to active support customers to keep you informed on the latest solution roadmaps, tips & tricks and best practices.On

Hello all-Arbortext 6.1 M060 is now available for download from the PTC support site.Some changes include:new environment variable allowing you to designate Styler as the default application when opening content from Windchillnew ACL set command for auto updating of gentextstripping

Unhappy Customers are Just the Beginning.A perennial question in the technical communication community is how to justify our work in financial terms that management will understand. One partial answer is to consider potential consequences of putting insufficient resources into technical

The advent of electronic media and particularly the Web has profoundly changed how people seek and use information. Information seeking today is dominated by search, and not by search of individual works, but search of the whole: whole sites, whole doc sets, and, in particular, the

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

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)

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 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