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About 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 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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Key Benefits

Ensure Consistent, High-Quality Product Information

  • Develop and enforce stylesheets to automate information layout and delivery
  • Publish complex product information to one or multiple media–from the same stylesheet–without programming
  • Automate layout tasks for multiple language content and regional formatting specifications

Increase Designer Productivity and Value

  • Provide a single, easy-to-use interface for your comprehensive product information delivery requirements
  • Simplify stylesheet creation across media to minimize programming
  • Update stylesheets easily when requirements change
  •  Configure stylesheets to support multiple mediatypes and formats automatically

Reduce Publishing Production Costs and Cycle-Times

  • Create a single-source of style to eliminate the development, maintenance and disparity of mul-tiple stylesheets
  • Eliminate desktop publishing costs for document production
  • Extend stylesheets by writing styling criteria for specific output media through source-code edits
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Arbortext 8.3

Key Features

RAPID STYLESHEET CREATION

  • Simplify initial setup with style wizards.
  • Intuitive user interface.
  • Page layout controls include page-size, margins, columns, footnotes and page numbers.
  • Tabbed panels for elements, page sets, size definitions, headers and footers, and combined fonts.
  • Tabbed sections for applying text formatting for elements, element contexts and conditions.
  • Simply create additional contexts and conditions without needing to write XPath expressions or testing code.
  • 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’
    • Split documents during publishing into logical chunks based on document hierarchy.
    • Define chunk boundaries and configure tables of contents for chunked outputs in Arbortext Styler.
    • Support for DITA by using input file or content management object structure to define the initial chunk boundaries.
  • Output file metadata for inserting metadata into HTML, chunked HTML, and PDF outputs.

CONDITIONAL FORMATTING

  • Set up conditional styling based on element context, attribute values and content tests.
  • Base styling on multi-level conditional tests.

STANDARDS SUPPORT

  • Import of existing FOSI stylesheet.
  • Export of multiple stylesheet formats, including XSL-HTML, CSS, XSL-FO, and FOSI, and Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher composition engine.

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED CONTENT

  • Format tables of contents, indexes and other automatically generated lists, such as table lists and figure lists.
  • Enable automatically generated text, including: bullets and list numbers; text preceding or following an element; header/footer content; repeating titles; cross-references; and indexes with language-specific collation rules.
  • Edit generated content for each entry level to fine tune output.
  • Add a new section between Automatically Generated Content and Modular.

MULTI-LANGUAGE FORMATTING

  • Easily support Right to Left languages by mirroring page lay out definition.
  • Use multiple numbering schemes to comply with regional numbering rules.
  • Define combined fonts for getting clearer results when mixing multiple types of characters.
  • Generated text can be exported as a separate file for easy translation to create multi-language stylesheets.

MODULAR

  • Use named property sets for modularity and reuse.
  • Support for modular stylesheets for sharing common formatting definitions between multiple document types.

EXTENSIBLE

  • Modify the style code directly for specialized applications using an extensive mechanism.
  • Use source edits to provide tight control of output for specific media.
  • Embed JavaScript custom functions for HTML output.