PTC Arbortext

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

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

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PTC Arbortext® Editor™

Author Reusable, Structured Content to Deliver High-

Quality Product and Service Information

PTC Arbortext Editor, the industry’s most

adopted XML authoring software, helps you
create contextual, up-to-date, product-centric
content.

As the importance of service excellence in driving

product success becomes widely recognized, more
and more companies are relying on Arbortext
Editor to generate high-quality, accurate and up-
to-date product and service information. With
Arbortext Editor, authors create contextual,
product-centric content for support organizations
and end-users. This content is provided in the
media format desired – including interactive
service manuals, eLearning materials, mobile-
optimized parts catalogs, operator manuals, web- Arbortext Editor enables easy editing of XML content while
incorporating illustrations.
based training programs and installation guides.

Structured authoring with Arbortext Editor Key Benefits

enables the creating and editing of XML
component-based content and assemblies, for Create high-quality, media-neutral product and
easy reuse enterprise-wide – so users don’t waste service content
time re-inputting text or applying identical
� Leverage content across multiple media for-
changes to multiple versions of the same copy.
Integration with Windchill®, PTC’s leading Content mats to meet the needs of various organizations
Management System, provides contextual and end-users
information aligned with the original product
� Automate the delivery of multi-language and
definition – to ensure information accuracy,
timeliness and consistency. Arbortext Editor multichannel product and service information,
supports industry standards like DITA and S1000D, including the use of interactive 2D and 3D
and allows authors to incorporate interactive, illustrations
CAD-driven 2D/3D technical illustrations.
� Leverage out-of-the box applications to pro-
In short, by enabling the creation of product- duce detail-rich information in compliance with
centric, topic based content, Arbortext Editor complex industry standards –with minimal
allows users to generate high-quality product and programming
service information that helps optimize the
� Provide single instances of approved product
operation, service and repair of products
throughout their lifecycles. and service information – including translations
– for reuse throughout the authoring process,
thereby eliminating duplication costs

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� Automate the production process through out- Features

of-the-box integration with Windchill, a leading
Content Management System Exceptional usability

� Accelerate solution deployment and � Re-use of content across multiple media

management with the industry’s only fully formats
integrated, end-to-end dynamic publishing
solution � Robust table handling, including table borders
support and table customization
Improve product and service information
accuracy � Ability to perform advanced searches, including
find and replace attributes
� Leverage up-to-date engineering data and
maintain associativity throughout the authoring � Extensive language support for spell checking
process to reduce product and service
information inconsistencies � Integrated functionality for content
management
� Mark any portion of content for a specific
purpose or audience, to produce information � Extensive preferences to allow each user a
that meets the specific needs of each individual personal working environment

� Minimize manual effort required to produce

and deliver product and service information

Increase author productivity

� Create reusable XML component-based content

� Free authors from manually designing content

by leveraging Arbortext’s automatic formatting
capabilities

� Reuse information easily by linking content to its

original source instead of copying and pasting

� Eliminate the time wasted applying the same

changes to multiple copies of the same
information

� Reduce the cost of updating information Arbortext Editor’s Preferences allow each user an easily
configurable environment.
� Save time by not having to constantly reformat
content based on output requirements Schematron support

� Leverage an industry standard

� Identify business rules and help authors

recognize user errors

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Comprehensive support for DITA Standards support, with native support for XML

� Support for the latest DITA 1.3 specification � Robust standards support, including XML,
SGML, XSL, XML Schema, Schematrons, XPath,
� Highly versatile DITA Resource Manager XInclude, DOM and other next-generation web
provides quick access to Windchill content standards for sharing content, data and
applications
� Support for key references to simplify working
with links � Supports OASIS, CALS, HTML and Arbortext
table models
� Preview images before inserting into content
Out-of-the-box applications
� Fast, simple authoring of maps and topics
� Technical Information Application
Structured editor with real-time validation
� Toolkit for Aerospace & Defense Specification
� Familiar, intuitive user interface with common S1000D available separately
word-processing capabilities, such as change
tracking, drag-and-drop and keyboard macros Highly configurable and customizable

� Simple copy/paste from MS Word® and MS- � Create and customize dialogs and toolbars
Excel through XML configuration files and embedded
ActiveX controls
Interactive and illustrative content
� Access majority of Arbortext Editor’s capabilities
� Incorporate intelligent graphics into any type of using its APIs either directly or through COM
content, including product and service
information � Supporting many different programming
languages, including C/C++, Java, JScript,
� Easily link to different views stored within an JavaScript, Visual Basic, VBScript and PerlScript
intelligent graphic
Broaden Arbortext Editor usage
� Support for creation and publishing of hotspot
links � Integrated with Arbortext IsoView® and Creo®
View
� Embed animations and illustrations – 2D, 3D,
animations or mixed – to support Web, � Embed Arbortext Editor as an ActiveX control in
interactive and page-based content a browser or install as a stand-alone client
application
Dynamic content support
� Launch Arbortext Editor directly within Windchill
� Produce customized publications using for fast XML authoring and management
conditional text for specific audiences from a
master document � Simpler deployment of Arbortext Editor across
the enterprise with the use of its deployment
Global collaboration directory and its compact version, which offers a
smaller install footprint for situations where
� Provide over 25 languages of content, character network bandwidth is important
sets and spelling dictionaries

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FlexNet licensing � Licenses available for use on any machine

within a network
� Same licensing utility used across all PTC
software, to allow user flexibility with software
licensing configurations

© 2019, PTC Inc. (PTC). All rights reserved. Information described herein is
furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and
should not be taken as a guarantee, commitment, condition or offer by PTC. PTC,
the PTC logo, Product & Service Advantage, Creo, Elements/Direct, Windchill,
Mathcad and all other PTC product names and logos are trademarks or
registered trademarks of PTC and/or its subsidiaries in the United States and
other countries. All other product or company names are property of their
respective owners. The timing of any product release, including any features or
functionality, is subject to change at PTC’s discretion.

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

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.

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PTC Arbortext® Styler™

Create stylesheets to automatically deliver predictable,

high-quality product information in multiple languages
and media output

PTC Arbortext Styler is an innovative stylesheet Increase designer productivity and value
tool that enables designers to configure
stylesheets for automatic publishing of � Provide a single, easy-to-use interface for your
structured content using a single source of style. comprehensive product information delivery
The stylesheets you create support one or requirements
multiple output media, with-out programming,
enabling you to improve the quality and � Simplify stylesheet creation across media to
consistency of your information. minimize programming

Stylesheets created in Arbortext Styler are used by � Update stylesheets easily when requirements
Arbortext publishing software to transform XML change
content into output for print, PDF, HTML and Web
pages, HTML Help, Microsoft® Word® and wire- � Configure stylesheets to support multiple media
less devices. Arbortext Styler also provides foreign types and formats automatically
language support including Right to Left, enabling
you to easily and automatically layout and publish Reduce publishing production costs and cycle
localized product information. times

Benefits � Create a single-source of style to eliminate the

development, maintenance and disparity of
Ensure consistent, high-quality product mul-tiple stylesheets
information
� Eliminate desktop publishing costs for
� Develop and enforce stylesheets to automate document production
information layout and delivery
� Extend stylesheets by writing styling criteria for
� Publish complex product information to one or specific output media through source-code
multiple media–from the same stylesheet–with- edits
out programming

� Automate layout tasks for multiple language

content and regional • formatting specifications

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� Highlight source-code edits

� Enable multiple levels of undo and redo

� Use and track ‘property sets’ to group together

formatting properties into reusable
components

� Add comments to stylesheet components to

help development and maintenance

Multichannel Support

� Support for multiple output types, such as print,

PDF, Web, Microsoft Word and HTML Help, from
a single stylesheet

� Define styles for all output types or for a specific

output

� Preview content for print, PDF and Web media

� Support for configuring PDF bookmarks and

populating PDF document properties

� Enable HTML ‘chunking’

Arbortext Styler provides a single, easy-to-use interface for all
� Split documents during publishing into
product information layout requirements to consistently publish
high-quality information across multiple media types logical chunks based on document
automatically hierarchy

Features � Define chunk boundaries and configure

tables of contents for chunked outputs in
Rapid Stylesheet Creation Arbortext Styler
� Simplify initial setup with style wizards � Support for DITA by using input file or
content management object structure to
� Intuitive user interface define the initial chunk boundaries
� Page layout controls include page-size, � Output file metadata for inserting metadata into
margins, columns, footnotes and page HTML, chunked HTML, and PDF outputs
numbers
Conditional Formatting
� Tabbed panels for elements, page sets, size
definitions, headers and footers, and � Set up conditional styling based on element
combined fonts context, attribute values and content tests
� Tabbed sections for applying text � Base styling on multi-level conditional tests
formatting for elements, element contexts
and conditions

� Simply create additional contexts and

conditions without needing to write XPath
expressions or testing code

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Standards Support � Use multiple numbering schemes to comply

with regional numbering rules
� Import of existing FOSI stylesheet
� Define combined fonts for getting clearer
� Export of multiple stylesheet formats, including results when mixing multiple types of characters
XSL-HTML, CSS, XSL-FO, and FOSI, and Arbortext
Advanced Print Publisher composition engine � Generated text can be exported as a separate
file for easy translation to create multi-language
Automatically Generated Content stylesheets

� Format tables of contents, indexes and other Modular

automatically generated lists, such as table lists
and figure lists � Use named property sets for modularity and
reuse
� Enable automatically generated text, including:
bullets and list numbers; text preceding or � Support for modular stylesheets for sharing
following an element; header/footer content; common formatting definitions between
repeating titles; cross-references; and indexes multiple document types
with language-specific collation rules
Extensible
� Edit generated content for each entry level to
fine tune output � Modify the style code directly for specialized
applications using an extensive mechanism
� Add a new section between Automatically
Generated Content and Modular. � Use source edits to provide tight control of out-
put for specific media
Multi-language Formatting
� Embed JavaScript custom functions for HTML
� Easily support Right to Left languages by output
mirroring page lay out definition

© 2019, PTC Inc. (PTC). All rights reserved. Information described herein is
furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and
should not be taken as a guarantee, commitment, condition or offer by PTC. PTC,
the PTC logo, Product & Service Advantage, Creo, Elements/Direct, Windchill,
Mathcad and all other PTC product names and logos are trademarks or
registered trademarks of PTC and/or its subsidiaries in the United States and
other countries. All other product or company names are property of their
respective owners. The timing of any product release, including any features or
functionality, is subject to change at PTC’s discretion.

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Publishing engine

Automatically Assemble and Publish Tailored Information to Multiple Audiences

in Interactive and Page-based Formats

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

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PTC Arbortext® Publishing Engine™

Automatically Assemble and Publish Tailored Information

to Multiple Audiences in Interactive and Page-based
Formats

Automate your publishing processes in order to Benefits

customize information, lower production costs,
accelerate information time-to-market, and Deliver customized and consistent technical
ensure information consistency. information

The PTC Arbortext Publishing Engine is a server- � Reduce the amount of time and effort your
based, single system that provides the end-to-end customers spend finding the relevant
ability to intelligently pull XML and unstructured information for their needs
data from content management systems and
other business applications, profile that content � Deliver the appropriate media for enhancing
for targeted audiences and different types of your customer’s experience with your
deliverables, and automatically generate service information
information and publications. Arbortext
Publishing Engine assures that you deliver the � Increase first-time repair rates and reduce
highest-quality, consistent product and service technician’s errors, with up-to-date, model-
information throughout a product’s lifecycle. specific service information

Minimize publishing costs

� Automate output to multiple media to eliminate

disparate, manual publishing processes

� Eliminate expensive, labor-intensive layout and

design tasks associated with multiple document
types, languages and media formats

� Reduce costs associated with printing and

distributing paper-based product information

Arbortext Publishing Engine automatically pulls relevant product Decrease time to deliver information
information from your business applications, and assembles and
publishes the customized content to one or multiple media
� Automate the publishing process to reduce
formats.
publishing cycle time from weeks to minutes

� Deliver updated, accurate technical

documentation in real-time across all of your
target media

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Features Professional Print Output

Manipulate, aggregate and profile content � Enable fast, flexible formatting for printed
documents
Convert and merge content automatically to provide
consistent, tailored and valid information, fully � Multiple document layouts
prepared for publishing
� Single- or two-column formats with column
� Profiling — Filter content for specific audiences, spanning and balancing, fold-out page
geographies, product models, etc. based on formats, automatic generation of front and
intelligence added to the content during the back matter and white space balancing,
authoring process widow and orphan controls

� Content Pipeline — Further customize your � Tables of contents at document-level and

document assembly and composition chapter-level, lists of figures, indexes and
processes by using the content pipeline seven levels of keeps priority
infrastructure
� Long-document support for table of contents,
Professional publishing indexing and chunking

Ensure high quality, automated information delivery Multichannel delivery

in the format, language and output required to
complete one or several parallel publishing jobs � Generate one or several outputs simultaneously
to Web, interactive and page-based formats
Enforce stylesheet rules
� Dynamic information delivery
� Automate the layout process, so you can quickly
and consistently produce publish-ready content � Output to all media formats dynamically
for delivery based on document stylesheet or
configuration
� Format every document type to a specific
design configuration automatically regardless of � Transform technical illustrations and
text length, language or intended output – animations for the appropriate media,
without human intervention automatically

� Ensure information consistency across media � Publish from a single-source content to

types automatically multiple output formats

� Publish using stylesheets created in Arbortext � Publish all valid XML files, automatically
Styler™
� Deliver interactive content, including 2D and 3D
� Apply styling rules from DITA®, S1000D® or technical illustrations or animations
other standards
Administration
� Layout localized content, automatically, to
eliminate manual desktop publishing � Access administration tools for configuring and
maintaining the publishing environment and
� Apply document flow and spacing monitoring publishing requests
considerations
� Job management
� Enable publishing for Chinese, Japanese,
Korean, Arabic, Hebrew and Thai, as well as � Error-reporting
all western European alphabets
� Capacity reservation management

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Standards support Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher™

Ensure support for the following standards: A standalone print composition application which
compliments the embedded version in Arbortext
� XML, SGML, XSL, XPath, XInclude, SVG, and the Publishing Engine. The standalone product is used
document object model (DOM) for template development, WYSIWYG document
finishing as well as desktop publishing tasks. It
� Java Web Services and HTTP provides a powerful, flexible and highly configurable
set of tools to deliver high quality paged output in
Related products both automated and manual workflows.

Arbortext Styler™ Arbortext Architect™

A unique stylesheet design tool, providing designers A development tool providing configuration,
with the capability to create XML-based stylesheets development and prototyping capabilities to help
that automate publishing, without labor-intensive build Arbortext applications. This developed
programming. Stylesheets created in Arbortext application is then used within the Arbortext
Styler can be used by Arbortext Publishing Engine to solution for creating, publishing and delivering
transform XML content into localized HTML and Web documentation and publications.
pages, print or PDF.

© 2019, PTC Inc. (PTC). All rights reserved. Information described herein is
furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and
should not be taken as a guarantee, commitment, condition or offer by PTC. PTC,
the PTC logo, Product & Service Advantage, Creo, Elements/Direct, Windchill,
Mathcad and all other PTC product names and logos are trademarks or
registered trademarks of PTC and/or its subsidiaries in the United States and
other countries. All other product or company names are property of their
respective owners. The timing of any product release, including any features or
functionality, is subject to change at PTC’s discretion.

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