DITA is Hard

There's a trope that says, if you want to do good content delivery, you have to advocate for methodology, not tools. (This is often said in despair by someone dealing with a team of writers determined to find a way…

• Key Concepts: best practices, dita, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing
• Filed under: Blog
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

How to find the PTC Product Calendar

Last updated: September 2017Please Note: The PTC website changes frequently and the specifics of this article may not be completely representative at any given time. That said, the Product Calendar is always on the Support Site and available to customers….

• Key Concepts: best practices, release notes, techcomm tools
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions, Release Details
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DITA style in Arbortext. It’s easy!

Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 1, Episode 5 Did you know with Arbortext, Specializations require no additional programming? Did you know Arbortext ships with easily customizable stylesheets to support output to multi-channel output formats (HTML, PDF, RTF, etc.)? Did you know…

• Key Concepts: best practices, dita, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing
• Filed under: Blog
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Want to keep track of the latest release?

Over the years, we've had questions from customers asking about the latest release. What's in it? Should they upgrade? Was my bug fixed? Is the enhancement I requested in there? It can be hard to convince yourself to read the…

• Key Concepts: arbortext content manager (windchill), arbortext editor, arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext publishing engine, arbortext styler, best practices, techcomm tools
• Filed under: Blog, Release Details
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

How to find out whether a version of Arbortext is supported on a particular OS version

This is the one of the most-asked questions on the PTC forums. If you want to know whether any particular version of Arbortext is supported on any particular version of Windows, check the Software Compatibility Matrix. How to Find the…

• Key Concepts: arbortext content manager (windchill), arbortext editor, arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext publishing engine, arbortext styler, best practices, release notes, techcomm tools
• Filed under: Blog, Release Details
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Common Questions: How to turn off Arbortext Processing Instructions

This is the second-most asked question. It's one of the most common questions we get. Problem On save, Arbortext Editor adds processing instructions, like <?Pub  Caret?>. How do I remove processing instructions (PIs) ? Solution Turning off the PIs is…

• Key Concepts: arbortext editor, best practices, techcomm tools, xml authoring
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
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Synchronize Product Information with Product Development

Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 1, Episode 2 It's all about managing content. Learn how synchronizing your product information with your product development can enable you to: Minimize risks by reducing errors and implementing fail safe controls Maintain control of valuable…

• Key Concepts: arbortext content manager (windchill), arbortext editor, best practices, workflow and process
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 1

Show Me the Demo!

That's the cry of the aspiring information architect. Unfortunately, success isn't about the technology A techpubs department is a techpubs department and one is not so unlike another. At a certain level that's true, but the devil's in the details…

• Key Concepts: best practices, techcomm tools
• Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks
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