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For more information about how our library science background (and our love of all things metadata) guides the way we catalog information, see the Techcomm and Arbortext Resources page.

Is Arbortext DITA Pure DITA? YES!

Is Arbortext pure DITA?  Yes. Arbortext is pure DITA, pure XML. We are always surprised when we get this question because: Arbortext was the software IBM was using when they developed DITA. What does it mean to be “pure DITA”?DITA is…

These are a few of our favorite things

Liz Fraley shares the top features they use and the their best methods for teaching #XML authoring and single-source #publishing (via the #Arbortext tool suite) About the presenter Liz Fraley, Single-Sourcing Solutions, is a serial entrepreneur. She's founded two companies,…

Arbortext Publishing Engine

Is Arbortext DITA Pure DITA? YES! Arbortext Publishing Engine is a server-based, single system that provides the end-to-end ability to intelligently aggregate, profile and assemble content automatically to provide accurate, relevant product information, fully prepared for publishing to one or…

Publish High-Quality, Print-Ready DITA in less than a day

b Post Summary Everyone says, “Publishing DITA is Hard!” But the truth is you can publish DITA content for ePub and Print output with very little work. The promise that vendors (like us) have been giving for 20 years is…

Common Questions: Language Support in Arbortext

This week’s topic: Language support in ArbortextXML publishing systems makes translation less expensive all-around. The biggest cost of translating content produced in traditional tools is the DTP that must be done on the content once it's been translated. Some languages…

Common Questions: Publishing

This week’s topic: Publishing! When it comes to “publishing content” in Arbortext, you're talking about a big subject. There's Arbortext Publishing Engine (PE), which produces multi-channel output.  There's Arbortext Digital Media Publisher (DMP), a component of Publishing Engine which enables you to distribute content on multiple types…

Under-the-hood multimedia publishing

Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 1, Episode 7 If you are like most companies, you want to stand out in the crowd. You want your company image to make an impact and be remembered. You want your customers to be able…

Podcast posted: Interview with Todd Nowlan, “Benefits of XML and single-sourcing”

When we were getting ready for the CMS DITA/NA 2010, we reached out to long-time Arbortext customers to find out where they were now, what they did originally, and how they got from point A to point B. Just what…