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PTC ArbortextEditor

PTC Arbortext Editor, the industry’s most adopted XML authoring software, helps you create contextual, up-to-date, product-centric content.

Author Reusable, Structured Content to Deliver HighQuality Product and Service Information

PTC Arbortext® Editor™

Author Reusable, Structured Content to Deliver High-Quality Product and Service Information

PTC Arbortext Editor, the industry’s mostadopted XML authoring software, helps youcreate contextual, up-to-date, product-centriccontent.

As the importance of service excellence in drivingproduct success becomes widely recognized, moreand more companies are relying on ArbortextEditor to generate high-quality, accurate and up-to-date product and service information. WithArbortext Editor, authors create contextual,product-centric content for support organizationsand end-users. This content is provided in themedia format desired – including interactiveservice manuals, eLearning materials, mobile-optimized parts catalogs, operator manuals, web-based training programs and installation guides.

Structured authoring with Arbortext Editorenables the creating and editing of XMLcomponent-based content and assemblies, foreasy reuse enterprise-wide – so users don’t wastetime re-inputting text or applying identicalchanges to multiple versions of the same copy.Integration with Windchill®, PTC’s leading ContentManagement System, provides contextualinformation aligned with the original productdefinition – to ensure information accuracy,timeliness and consistency. Arbortext Editorsupports industry standards like DITA and S1000D,and allows authors to incorporate interactive,CAD-driven 2D/3D technical illustrations.

In short, by enabling the creation of product-centric, topic based content, Arbortext Editorallows users to generate high-quality product andservice information that helps optimize theoperation, service and repair of productsthroughout their lifecycles.

Arbortext Editor enables easy editing of XML content whileincorporating illustrations.

Key Benefits

Create high-quality, media-neutral product andservice content

� Leverage content across multiple media for-mats to meet the needs of various organizationsand end-users

� Automate the delivery of multi-language andmultichannel product and service information,including the use of interactive 2D and 3Dillustrations

� Leverage out-of-the box applications to pro-duce detail-rich information in compliance withcomplex industry standards –with minimalprogramming

� Provide single instances of approved productand service information – including translations– for reuse throughout the authoring process,thereby eliminating duplication costs

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� Automate the production process through out-of-the-box integration with Windchill, a leadingContent Management System

� Accelerate solution deployment andmanagement with the industry’s only fullyintegrated, end-to-end dynamic publishingsolution

Improve product and service informationaccuracy

� Leverage up-to-date engineering data andmaintain associativity throughout the authoringprocess to reduce product and serviceinformation inconsistencies

� Mark any portion of content for a specificpurpose or audience, to produce informationthat meets the specific needs of each individual

� Minimize manual effort required to produceand deliver product and service information

Increase author productivity

� Create reusable XML component-based content

� Free authors from manually designing contentby leveraging Arbortext’s automatic formattingcapabilities

� Reuse information easily by linking content to itsoriginal source instead of copying and pasting

� Eliminate the time wasted applying the samechanges to multiple copies of the sameinformation

� Reduce the cost of updating information

� Save time by not having to constantly reformatcontent based on output requirements

Features

Exceptional usability

� Re-use of content across multiple mediaformats

� Robust table handling, including table borderssupport and table customization

� Ability to perform advanced searches, includingfind and replace attributes

� Extensive language support for spell checking

� Integrated functionality for contentmanagement

� Extensive preferences to allow each user apersonal working environment

Arbortext Editor’s Preferences allow each user an easilyconfigurable environment.

Schematron support

� Leverage an industry standard

� Identify business rules and help authorsrecognize user errors


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Comprehensive support for DITA

� Support for the latest DITA 1.3 specification

� Highly versatile DITA Resource Managerprovides quick access to Windchill content

� Support for key references to simplify workingwith links

� Preview images before inserting into content

� Fast, simple authoring of maps and topics

Structured editor with real-time validation

� Familiar, intuitive user interface with commonword-processing capabilities, such as changetracking, drag-and-drop and keyboard macros

� Simple copy/paste from MS Word® and MS-Excel

Interactive and illustrative content

� Incorporate intelligent graphics into any type ofcontent, including product and serviceinformation

� Easily link to different views stored within anintelligent graphic

� Support for creation and publishing of hotspotlinks

� Embed animations and illustrations – 2D, 3D,animations or mixed – to support Web,interactive and page-based content

Dynamic content support

� Produce customized publications usingconditional text for specific audiences from amaster document

Global collaboration

� Provide over 25 languages of content, charactersets and spelling dictionaries

Standards support, with native support for XML

� Robust standards support, including XML,SGML, XSL, XML Schema, Schematrons, XPath,XInclude, DOM and other next-generation webstandards for sharing content, data andapplications

� Supports OASIS, CALS, HTML and Arbortexttable models

Out-of-the-box applications

� Technical Information Application

� Toolkit for Aerospace & Defense SpecificationS1000D available separately

Highly configurable and customizable

� Create and customize dialogs and toolbarsthrough XML configuration files and embeddedActiveX controls

� Access majority of Arbortext Editor’s capabilitiesusing its APIs either directly or through COM

� Supporting many different programminglanguages, including C/C++, Java, JScript,JavaScript, Visual Basic, VBScript and PerlScript

Broaden Arbortext Editor usage

� Integrated with Arbortext IsoView® and Creo®View

� Embed Arbortext Editor as an ActiveX control ina browser or install as a stand-alone clientapplication

� Launch Arbortext Editor directly within Windchillfor fast XML authoring and management

� Simpler deployment of Arbortext Editor acrossthe enterprise with the use of its deploymentdirectory and its compact version, which offers asmaller install footprint for situations wherenetwork bandwidth is important


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FlexNet licensing

� Same licensing utility used across all PTCsoftware, to allow user flexibility with softwarelicensing configurations

� Licenses available for use on any machinewithin a network

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PTC ArbortextStyler

PTC Arbortext Styler is an innovative stylesheet tool that enables designers to configure stylesheets for automatic publishing of structured content using a single source of style. The stylesheets you create support one or multiple output media, with-out programming, enabling you to improve the quality and consistency of your information.

Create stylesheets to automatically deliver predictable, high-quality product infor-mation in multiple languages and media output

PTC Arbortext® Styler™

Create stylesheets to automatically deliver predictable,high-quality product information in multiple languagesand media output

PTC Arbortext Styler is an innovative stylesheettool that enables designers to configurestylesheets for automatic publishing ofstructured content using a single source of style.The stylesheets you create support one ormultiple output media, with-out programming,enabling you to improve the quality andconsistency of your information.

Stylesheets created in Arbortext Styler are used byArbortext publishing software to transform XMLcontent into output for print, PDF, HTML and Webpages, HTML Help, Microsoft® Word® and wire-less devices. Arbortext Styler also provides foreignlanguage support including Right to Left, enablingyou to easily and automatically layout and publishlocalized product information.

Benefits

Ensure consistent, high-quality productinformation

� Develop and enforce stylesheets to automateinformation layout and delivery

� Publish complex product information to one ormultiple media–from the same stylesheet–with-out programming

� Automate layout tasks for multiple languagecontent and regional • formatting specifications

Increase designer productivity and value

� Provide a single, easy-to-use interface for yourcomprehensive product information deliveryrequirements

� Simplify stylesheet creation across media tominimize programming

� Update stylesheets easily when requirementschange

� Configure stylesheets to support multiple mediatypes and formats automatically

Reduce publishing production costs and cycletimes

� Create a single-source of style to eliminate thedevelopment, maintenance and disparity ofmul-tiple stylesheets

� Eliminate desktop publishing costs fordocument production

� Extend stylesheets by writing styling criteria forspecific output media through source-codeedits

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Arbortext Styler provides a single, easy-to-use interface for allproduct information layout requirements to consistently publishhigh-quality information across multiple media typesautomatically

Features

Rapid Stylesheet Creation

� Simplify initial setup with style wizards

� Intuitive user interface

� Page layout controls include page-size,margins, columns, footnotes and pagenumbers

� Tabbed panels for elements, page sets, sizedefinitions, headers and footers, andcombined fonts

� Tabbed sections for applying textformatting for elements, element contextsand conditions

� Simply create additional contexts andconditions without needing to write XPathexpressions or testing code

� Highlight source-code edits

� Enable multiple levels of undo and redo

� Use and track ‘property sets’ to group togetherformatting properties into reusablecomponents

� Add comments to stylesheet components tohelp development and maintenance

Multichannel Support

� Support for multiple output types, such as print,PDF, Web, Microsoft Word and HTML Help, froma single stylesheet

� Define styles for all output types or for a specificoutput

� Preview content for print, PDF and Web media

� Support for configuring PDF bookmarks andpopulating PDF document properties

� Enable HTML ‘chunking’

� Split documents during publishing intological chunks based on documenthierarchy

� Define chunk boundaries and configuretables of contents for chunked outputs inArbortext Styler

� Support for DITA by using input file orcontent management object structure todefine the initial chunk boundaries

� Output file metadata for inserting metadata intoHTML, chunked HTML, and PDF outputs

Conditional Formatting

� Set up conditional styling based on elementcontext, attribute values and content tests

� Base styling on multi-level conditional tests


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Standards Support

� Import of existing FOSI stylesheet

� Export of multiple stylesheet formats, includingXSL-HTML, CSS, XSL-FO, and FOSI, and ArbortextAdvanced Print Publisher composition engine

Automatically Generated Content

� Format tables of contents, indexes and otherautomatically generated lists, such as table listsand figure lists

� Enable automatically generated text, including:bullets and list numbers; text preceding orfollowing an element; header/footer content;repeating titles; cross-references; and indexeswith language-specific collation rules

� Edit generated content for each entry level tofine tune output

� Add a new section between AutomaticallyGenerated Content and Modular.

Multi-language Formatting

� Easily support Right to Left languages bymirroring page lay out definition

� Use multiple numbering schemes to complywith regional numbering rules

� Define combined fonts for getting clearerresults when mixing multiple types of characters

� Generated text can be exported as a separatefile for easy translation to create multi-languagestylesheets

Modular

� Use named property sets for modularity andreuse

� Support for modular stylesheets for sharingcommon formatting definitions betweenmultiple document types

Extensible

� Modify the style code directly for specializedapplications using an extensive mechanism

� Use source edits to provide tight control of out-put for specific media

� Embed JavaScript custom functions for HTMLoutput



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PTC Arbortext

Publishing engine

Automate your publishing processes in order to customize information, lower production costs,accelerate information time-to-market, and ensure information consistency.

Automatically Assemble and Publish Tailored Information to Multiple Audiences in Interactive and Page-based Formats

PTC Arbortext® Publishing Engine™

Automatically Assemble and Publish Tailored Informationto Multiple Audiences in Interactive and Page-basedFormats

Automate your publishing processes in order tocustomize information, lower production costs,accelerate information time-to-market, andensure information consistency.

The PTC Arbortext Publishing Engine is a server-based, single system that provides the end-to-endability to intelligently pull XML and unstructureddata from content management systems andother business applications, profile that contentfor targeted audiences and different types ofdeliverables, and automatically generate serviceinformation and publications. ArbortextPublishing Engine assures that you deliver thehighest-quality, consistent product and serviceinformation throughout a product’s lifecycle.

Arbortext Publishing Engine automatically pulls relevant productinformation from your business applications, and assembles andpublishes the customized content to one or multiple mediaformats.

Benefits

Deliver customized and consistent technicalinformation

� Reduce the amount of time and effort yourcustomers spend finding the relevantinformation for their needs

� Deliver the appropriate media for enhancingyour customer’s experience with yourinformation

� Increase first-time repair rates and reducetechnician’s errors, with up-to-date, model-specific service information

Minimize publishing costs

� Automate output to multiple media to eliminatedisparate, manual publishing processes

� Eliminate expensive, labor-intensive layout anddesign tasks associated with multiple documenttypes, languages and media formats

� Reduce costs associated with printing anddistributing paper-based product information

Decrease time to deliver information

� Automate the publishing process to reducepublishing cycle time from weeks to minutes

� Deliver updated, accurate technicaldocumentation in real-time across all of yourtarget media

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Features

Manipulate, aggregate and profile content

Convert and merge content automatically to provideconsistent, tailored and valid information, fullyprepared for publishing

� Profiling — Filter content for specific audiences,geographies, product models, etc. based onintelligence added to the content during theauthoring process

� Content Pipeline — Further customize yourdocument assembly and compositionprocesses by using the content pipelineinfrastructure

Professional publishing

Ensure high quality, automated information deliveryin the format, language and output required tocomplete one or several parallel publishing jobs

Enforce stylesheet rules

� Automate the layout process, so you can quicklyand consistently produce publish-ready contentfor delivery

� Format every document type to a specificdesign configuration automatically regardless oftext length, language or intended output –without human intervention

� Ensure information consistency across mediatypes automatically

� Publish using stylesheets created in ArbortextStyler™

� Apply styling rules from DITA®, S1000D® orother standards

� Layout localized content, automatically, toeliminate manual desktop publishing

� Apply document flow and spacingconsiderations

� Enable publishing for Chinese, Japanese,Korean, Arabic, Hebrew and Thai, as well asall western European alphabets

Professional Print Output

� Enable fast, flexible formatting for printeddocuments

� Multiple document layouts

� Single- or two-column formats with columnspanning and balancing, fold-out pageformats, automatic generation of front andback matter and white space balancing,widow and orphan controls

� Tables of contents at document-level andchapter-level, lists of figures, indexes andseven levels of keeps priority

� Long-document support for table of contents,indexing and chunking

Multichannel delivery

� Generate one or several outputs simultaneouslyto Web, interactive and page-based formats

� Dynamic information delivery

� Output to all media formats dynamicallybased on document stylesheet orconfiguration

� Transform technical illustrations andanimations for the appropriate media,automatically

� Publish from a single-source content tomultiple output formats

� Publish all valid XML files, automatically

� Deliver interactive content, including 2D and 3Dtechnical illustrations or animations

Administration

� Access administration tools for configuring andmaintaining the publishing environment andmonitoring publishing requests

� Job management

� Error-reporting

� Capacity reservation management


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Standards support

Ensure support for the following standards:

� XML, SGML, XSL, XPath, XInclude, SVG, and thedocument object model (DOM)

� Java Web Services and HTTP

Related products

Arbortext Styler™

A unique stylesheet design tool, providing designerswith the capability to create XML-based stylesheetsthat automate publishing, without labor-intensiveprogramming. Stylesheets created in ArbortextStyler can be used by Arbortext Publishing Engine totransform XML content into localized HTML and Webpages, print or PDF.

Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher™

A standalone print composition application whichcompliments the embedded version in ArbortextPublishing Engine. The standalone product is usedfor template development, WYSIWYG documentfinishing as well as desktop publishing tasks. Itprovides a powerful, flexible and highly configurableset of tools to deliver high quality paged output inboth automated and manual workflows.

Arbortext Architect™

A development tool providing configuration,development and prototyping capabilities to helpbuild Arbortext applications. This developedapplication is then used within the Arbortextsolution for creating, publishing and deliveringdocumentation and publications.



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