Understanding Arbortext Publishing Engine

Arbortext is a content publishing system that streamlines and automates your information publishing process and eliminates costly inefficiencies. Leveraging XML authoring, technical illustration creation, content and process management, and dynamic enterprise publishing capabilities of Arbortext, you can improve your publishing processes and help your organization gain significant competitive advantage and lasting differentiation.

Key Benefits

  • Increase Authoring Productivity

  • Free authors from manually designing documents by taking advantage of Arbortext's automatic capabilities

  • Easily reuse information by linking to its original source instead of copying and pasting

  • By making it easy to reuse information, eliminate the need to find and apply the same changes to multiple copies of the same information

  • Reduce the cost of updating your information

Improve Information Accuracy, Consistency and Relevance

  • Eliminate inconsistencies by creating content components that authors can reuse in multiple documents and multiple types of media

  • Mark any portion of your content for a specific purpose to produce publications that meets the specific needs of each individual

  • Eliminate nearly all of the manual effort required to publish

Reduce Translation Costs

  • Create modular information so you translate only the components that have changed

  • Translate reused information once rather than in each location it is used

  • Automatically layout and format publications in each language

Reduce Publishing Costs

  • Automate the publishing process through out-of-the-box integration with Windchill, Arbortext Content Manager, and other leading content management systems

  • Ease deployment and management with the industry's only complete, fully integrated, end-to-end dynamic publishing solution for DITA

Improve Publication Quality

  • Leverage out-of-the box applications for producing industry- standard service manuals and S1000D publications

  • Incorporate in your publications interactive 2D and 3D graphics and animations through integration with industry-leading technical illustration solution

The Arbortext Publishing Engine is a server-based system that pulls XML and SGML content from a file system or content management system, assembles that content for different audiences and different types of documents, and automatically publishes the assembled content in both print and electronic forms, all with high-quality layout and formatting. Because Arbortext Publishing Engine offers an integral connection to PTC's Windchill, there are particular efficiencies to be gained through its use on the context of PTC's Product Development System.

Because Arbortext Publishing Engine operates in an unattended mode, it forms the foundation of a dynamic enterprise publishing system to deliver publications on demand to multiple types of media, both print and electronic. Arbortext Publishing Engine allows you to:

  • Deliver more accurate, more timely and more consistent publications

  • Dynamically deliver publications that are customized to the needs of each user

  • Immediately produce updated publications across all of your target media

  • Automatically publish on demand; pull content from your file system or content management system, assemble that content for different audiences, and publish the assembled content automatically to print, Web, PDF, Microsoft Word, HTML Help, wireless devices and other media formats

Key Benefits

  • Reduce publishing costs by its support of multiple types of media that helps you reduce or eliminate the cost of supporting a separate publishing process for each different media type

  • Speed time to market by automating the publishing process that reduces publishing time from weeks or months to minutes

  • Eliminate nearly all of the manual effort required to publish

  • Increase productivity by automating publishing. This liberates authors from the responsibility of page layout and design, leaving them free to spend more time creating and updating content.

  • Strengthen customer relationships by allowing you to instantly assemble and publish content that is tailored to specific audience requirements and delivered in the media format that best suits their needs

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