Arbortext Tips

Here at Single-Sourcing Solutions, we always talk about the ease of use and the out-of-the box advantages to Arbortext suite of products. We don’t always talk about the sizable API that opens the entire application to developers. Yet, for many of us, this was one of the primary advantages

Recently, Dave Lorenzoni wrote a post about the cost of Arbortext. In it he says, "There’s a lot of confusion, bad information, old information about Arbortext floating around out there."Over the last year, we've come to that same realization from a completely different

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The last two weeks have been really busy, but I wanted to take this opportunity to stress that it's time for all the Arbortext users out there to submit a proposal for presentation at the annual user conference, PlanetPTC Live, in 2010.Like others who have made this solicitation,

If you have  information about your company’s product or services  that needs to be  delivered to customers, whether it’s in print or  electronic form,  chances are you have heard of XML.  Are you finding yourself in the position of having to explain to others or have you wondered:What’s

We answer a lot of questions about Arbortext, in a lot of different places.  This is only one of them. Why? Because we're one of the few qualified PTC-Arbortext partners. Because we've been working with the Arbortext solution for more than a decade.Arbortext is not simply

Check the Arbortext PTC/User Group page for a list of upcoming virtual meetings and webinars. Lots of good product information, tips, and feature-focus sessions headed our way.Here's a short list:August 28    User Meeting: Deploying and maintaining a large single-sourcing solution:

Over the years, we've had questions from customers asking about the latest release. What's in it? Should they upgrade? Was my bug fixed? Is the enhancement I requested in there?It can be hard to convince yourself to read the release notes. After all, it's locked in a PDF.

This is the second-most asked question on the forums. It's one of the most common questions we get. It's so common, there's a post about it on the Adepters Code Archive.From the article: Those Pesky PIsProblemOn save, Arbortext Editor adds processing instructions, like

I notice there are a lot of unanswered questions here, especially Arbortext-related questions. I'm not really surprised: Seasoned Arbortexters don't look for questions here. Usually, Arbortext folks hang out on the Adepters Mailing List. (For more information about the mailing

Looking through the forums, only one question appears more often than this one. It seems a good time to write this up.If you want to know whether any particular version of Arbortext is supported on any particular version of Windows, check the Software Compatibility Matrix.For example,

I'm a lot of places. It seems that every community wants you to play in their sandbox... it's so backwards. If you're looking for insight, your best bet is to follow me on our corporate blog. I'm one of many posters.Here's the official bio:Before founding Single-Sourcing