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Java support in Arbortext as of January 1, 2019
In October of 2018, PTC announced that:Starting in January 2019, customers of these products will now need to obtain and install Java as a prerequisite for installing or re-installing their PTC products. As before, customers of these products will need…
- Key Concepts: configuration and implementation
- Filed under: Common Questions, Release Details
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Top Books for Children and New Parents
My niece is having a baby and as I realized that I have a list of carefully curated books that I give to new parents. The last couple of years I've written about my reading lists, and I write a…
- Key Concepts: configuration and implementation
- Filed under: Common Questions, Release Details
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Top Authors and Books from My 2017 Reading Challenge
After all the books I read in 2016, I'd planned on reading more non-fiction in 2017. As it turned out, we had a busy year here at Single-Sourcing Solutions and escapist reading was the order of the day. 2017 was…
- Key Concepts: configuration and implementation
- Filed under: Common Questions, Release Details
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Arbortext: The First DITA Editing and Publishing System
The first mention of public DITA support for Arbortext dates back to a press release by Arbortext onĀ April 20th, 2004. In less than a year (June 2005), DITA was first approved as an OASIS standard. But the earliest mention of…
- Key Concepts: configuration and implementation
- Filed under: Common Questions, Release Details
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Techcomm magnets, buttons, and bookmarks
What's your favorite giveaway? Mine is a backpack that I got at the very last Arbortext User Conference in 2005. This backpack had perfect balance and is great for bicyclists as well as pedestrians. Even though it's 13 years old,…
- Key Concepts: news
- Filed under: Blog
- Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive
What training do I need to use Arbortext well?
Dear Liz I am starting to work with the PTC Arbortext Editor using SGML. I need to know if I can get training on the editor? What would it take to get the training to use it well? Would I…
- Key Concepts: configuration and implementation
- Filed under: Common Questions, Release Details
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Problems upgrading your Arbortext Styler stylesheets from 6.1 to 7.0?
Quite by accident, we noticed that some stylesheets can have issues when upgrading to 7.0 from 6.1. A day or so ago, Liz was working with some stylesheets that hadn't been touched since mid 2016 when she published her books….
- Key Concepts: configuration and implementation
- Filed under: Common Questions, Release Details
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Always be learning: Lessons for writing instructions
You can learn interesting things that apply directly to you…from a totally different discipline. Recently, I was reading a story about Board Game Designers. I may be a board game geek, but that's not why the story was interesting. The…
- Key Concepts: best practices, soft-skills, usability and user experience
- Filed under: Blog
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