How DITA Transformed Content at Nikon Precision [Arbortext User Meeting]

Nikon Precision Inc (NPI), located in the United States, serves as the sales and service support arm for the Nikon semiconductor manufacturing tools. All design and manufacturing occurs in Japan; therefore, all technical information originates in Japanese. Since NPI is…

• Key Concepts: case study, community, dita, make your business case, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: PTC Arbortext User

An ACL Tool to Find and Replace XML Attribute Values [Arbortext User Meeting]

Legal publishing uses a lot of attributes, and CCH publications are some of the richest legal reporting available. When we converted to SGML nine years ago, one of the first things our users requested was a way to modify attributes…

• Key Concepts: case study, community, dita, make your business case, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: PTC Arbortext User

Podcast Posted: Interview with Bob Thomas, Tagsmiths

This month's interview on the PubWright podcast is Bob Thomas, from Tagsmiths. Bob started in SGML/XML in the mid-to-early 90s at Lucent. He transformed from a technical writer to data modeler, DTD writer, legacy data conversion specialist, and stylesheet developer….

• Key Concepts: community, dita, xpath xslt xsl-fo
• Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

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…

• Key Concepts: arbortext publishing engine, case study, community, make your business case, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, xml authoring
• Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Combining Projections to Create Enhanced Lineart Images [Arbortext User Meeting]

In this demonstration, we explore a series of steps that can be used to create a title cover page images comprised of a continuous tone image (Photograph) and lineart. This technique is ideally suited for title cover page illustrations for…

• Key Concepts: case study, community, dita, make your business case, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: PTC Arbortext User

Adepters Code Archive Expands to Include IsoDraw Macro Code Contributions

Today, the Adepters Code Archive expanded to include IsoDraw code for the first time. Thanks to Trevor Hendricks from Kohler, last month's speaker for the Arbortext PTC/User Group.  Trevor Hendricks is the expert in all things IsoDraw at Kohler —…

• Key Concepts: community, illustrations and graphics, news
• Filed under: Blog
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

A Developer's Guide to IsoDraw Customization, Macro Coding, and the Associated Benefits

This presentation is focused on the customization of IsoDraw. It will consist of general examples of how macros can be used to simply common tasks, benefits of setting preference files, and advantages of using custom toolbars. The session will be…

• Key Concepts: case study, community, dita, make your business case, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: PTC Arbortext User

Arbortext User-to-User Panel

We covered questions of all types from users on subjects ranging from Legacy Data Conversion to the best way to format web and page layout. This was a round-table, panel discussion with moderator. All but one of the panelists are…

• Key Concepts: case study, community, dita, make your business case, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: PTC Arbortext User