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MartyRoss1-Visitor
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April 8, 2011
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Arbortext Architect - what is it?

  • April 8, 2011
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It's become clearer I need Styler for some of the work I'm doing (create new doctypes, support some existing ACL connected to existing doctypes, offline composition for this development, etc.) so I just downloaded / installed it after uninstalling Editor. But, I became aware we have a license available to me for Architect.


But, what is Architect? Specifically:



  2. What can I do with Architect I can't do with Styler?; and,

  4. What

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    ptc-9539261-Visitor
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    April 8, 2011
    You do not need an Architect license to use Styler. I've been using Styler for a couple of years now and we've never had Architect - even for our FOSI work. Whether Architect can replace Styler, someone else can answer.

    Dave
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    ClayHelberg18-Opal
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    April 8, 2011
    Hi Marty-



    The short answer: no, Architect can't replace Styler. You can do some
    stylesheet work in Architect for FOSI stylesheets, but it won't help you
    with Styler stylesheets (*.style files).



    Architect does have some tools that are helpful for editing and
    configuring doctypes. I would see the two tools as being complementary,
    where you use Architect to work with the doctypes and use Styler to work
    with the stylesheets.



    FWIW, just about everything you can do in Architect can also be done in
    straight Arbortext Editor and/or a good programmer's text editor, e.g.
    editing various doctype configuration files (DCF, PCF, etc.), and even
    FOSI stylesheets if you're brave. But if you have a license for it,
    Architect does make some of that easier.



    Also, Styler is not going to help you at all with managing doctype files
    or ACL scripts. It's really just for working with Styler stylesheets.



    Finally, you shouldn't need to worry about authors needing Styler
    licenses in general. They would only need a Styler license if they were
    a) doing test composition on their local machine rather than through PE,
    or b) making changes to stylesheets (or both). Neither of those should
    be the case if you are publishing standard documents through PE, so I'm
    not sure why authors would need the Styler license.



    --Clay



    Clay Helberg

    Senior Consultant

    TerraXML


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    SindyYoung1-Visitor
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    April 8, 2011
    Well said Clay!
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    steve.thompson41-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    April 8, 2011
    Now that's interesting. David's reply never made it to my Inbox. The original and Clay's response just fine, but not David's.

    Curious.

    Steve Thompson
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