A key component of the PTC’s dynamic publishing software, Arbortext Editor (formerly Epic Editor) features an integral connection to Windchill and provides the starting point for creating publications out of reusable components. Arbortext Editor enables you to:

• Create and edit XML and SGML content
• Work with content both as components and as compound documents
• Reuse content across your organization
• Improve the accuracy, consistency and flexibility of your information

Increase Authoring Productivity

• Frees authors from the responsibility of designing documents by hand through automatic formatting
• Easily reuse information by linking to its original source instead of copying and pasting
• Eliminate the need to find and apply the same changes to multiple copies of the same information
• Reduce the cost of updating your information

Improve Information Accuracy, Consistency and Relevance

• Eliminate inconsistencies by creating content components that can be reused in multiple documents and media types
• Mark any portion of your content for a specific purpose to produce publications that meets the specific needs of each individual
• Eliminate nearly all of the manual effort required to publish

Reduce Translation Costs

• Create modular information so you translate only the components that have changed
• Translate reused information once rather than in each location it is used

Arbortext Editor’s familiar word processing interface makes it easy for authors to create structured content for reuse and automated publishing.

Arbortext Editor looks and works like familiar word processing software–yet provides all the power and flexibility you need. Arbortext Editor lets authors build compound documents out of reusable components, attach audience information to content for producing customized publications, and embed data from databases, business systems and other data sources.

Authors can use Arbortext Editor to author business, technical and reference documents. Arbortext Editor lets authors create components of content, aggregate those components into publications, and make those publications dynamic and personalized.

Familiar Word Processing Interface

• Change tracking
• Real-time spell checking
• Multiple levels of undo/redo
• Cut and paste
• Drag-and-drop
• Keyboard macros
• Dockable Word-like toolbars

Structured Editing

• Viewing, navigation and editing functions that are specific to structured XML/SGML content

Compound Document Support

• Controls for assembling content from multiple contributors
• Inline editing of document components in compound documents

Dynamic Content Support

• “Profiling” feature lets authors create master documents to be automatically customized to specific audiences
• Automatically merge data from corporate business systems
• Configure dynamic or variable elements

Integration with Content Management Systems

• Supports PTC Windchill and other leading CMS solutions

Global Collaboration

• Supports over 25 languages in content, character sets and spelling dictionaries

Standards Support

• Arbortext supports XML, SGML, XSL (XSL-FO and XSLT), XML Schema, XPath, XInclude, DOM and other next-generation Web standards for sharing content, data and applications
• Supports HTML, CALS, OASIS and Arbortext table formats

Highly Configurable and Customizable

• Create and customize dialogs and toolbars through XML configuration files and embedded ActiveX controls
• Over 95% of Arbortext Editor’s capabilities are exposed through its APIs which your application code can access directly or through COM using many different programming languages including C/C++, Java, JScript, JavaScript, Visual Basic, and VBScript. TCL and Perl are supported through additional customization.