Arbortext PTC/User Blog

Update: unfortunately no video is available for this meeting due to technical errors during the event. Sometimes those are the breaks. Attend and you’ll be sure to see everything.

Please join us online for our next meeting:

“Real-Time, Mission-Critical Publications with Digital Media Publisher”

Presented by Paul Nagai, Nagai Resources

Date: Saturday, 27 February 2010, 9:00-10:30 AM Pacific/US

Location:  Online via GoToMeeting. You must Register to receive the GoToMeeting invite.

Cost: Free and open to all who wish to attend.

Registration Web Link: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/462827346

Topic

Come see how a financial company has used Arbortext Digital Media Publisher to reduce time-to-market for publication deliveries to worldwide processing centers from one month to near real time. Leveraging existing Arbortext investments and expertise in XML and related technologies, the system provides an end-to-end electronic publishing solution fully supported by a single vendor.

About the Speaker

Paul Nagai has over 19 years professional experience in electronic publishing development, sales, training, and evangelism. He serves as lead developer on several XML authoring / Content Management projects for his employer, a large financial.

Paul Nagai

Note

This meeting will be held online. You must RSVP to receive the GoToMeeting invite: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/462827346. After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Acknowledgements

This meeting is brought to you by the SF Bay Arbortext PTC/User Group.

We want to thank Wolters Kluwer for supporting our organization and community-focused programs.

We want to thank Single-Sourcing Solutions for coordinating our meeting logistics, administration, and for providing access to their GoToMeeting resources and conference bridge facilities.

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This video goes with the meeting notice posted here. This video is a recorded version of

“Get Globally Fit — Reduce the Waste-line
and get to a better Bottom (line that is).”
Presented by Ben Martin, Flatirons Solutions
July 2009 Arbortext PTC/User Group Meeting

Again, we’ve had some trouble getting the video recordings of the user meetings posted.  Rather than delay further, we’re going to post as is — with a bit of an explanation.

This is a recorded version of a live Go2Meeting webcast. So far, we still haven’t been able to edit the video after it was recorded. I can recapture the audio with Camtasia, but Camtasia has issues with Go2Meeting recordings and reimporting the original video as an audio-only track.

So we’re posting the video as is.

There may be black screen in the beginning. We’ve discovered that Go2Meeting doesn’t record the Go2Meeting “stuff”. While all the participants may see the startup screen, the Go2Meeting recorder ignores it.  Result?  Black screen during the introduction.

If you’ve got the skills to edit this recording, we’d love to have a volunteer fix it or suggest to us how to do so.

In the meantime, you may want to skip forward a bit in the recording and you should go read Ben’s biography here.  The rest of the video is all live. There is at least one break where we stopped the recording so our attendees could ask and answer questions without going out on the recording. Otherwise, every last bit is completely live.

Access the video here. You may need the Citrix Go2Meeting codec which is available here.

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“All about Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher”
Presented by Lawrie Stevens, Global Publishing Solutions

For the first time in probably 5 years, APP (formerly 3B2) got center stage as Lawrie Stevens performed a demo — all live, nothing canned — that not only put the product through it’s paces but really showed what it can do. As with all live demos, technology can get the best of you at times, but GPSL always does things live. This way the product can really exhibit itself.

Those of us in attendance were treated to a spectacular exhibit:  APP is a fast, flexible, highly capable production engine.  By the end of the presentation, we were all left wondering: where has Arbortext and PTC been hiding this product? And, when will 5.4 be out so we can play with it?

As moderator, I gathered up the questions asked during the presentation and have reproduced them here. Answers were provided and reviewed by Lawrie before posting.

And, by the way, Arbortext 5.4 was released today.  Enjoy!

Questions and Answers

Q: Does APP guarantee page integrity?

Lawrie: Yes – we can `guarantee’ page integrity in an environment like Boeing (depends, of course, on the integrity / design of the whole solution). As I showed, we are able to take care of LOEP, changes and printing changes (leafs) rather than using external pre-processing. The integrity of pages was a `must have’ and we would not have achieved acceptance without it.

Q: Is the right hand pane searchable?

Lawrie: Yes. The Edit Area (yellow bar) is searchable with simple or regular expression mode (search & replace too). This is also scriptable.

Q: Can I search with xpath?

Lawrie: Yes, using scripts and other tools

Q: Has it been integrated into Styler yet?

Lawrie: APP is integrated with Styler in 5.4 release

Q: Does APP support HAT (Hebrew, Arabic and Thai)?

Lawrie: Yes – As seen. [*]  Thai is a particular language and does present certain challenges. All other languages are fully supported – Arabic, Hebrew and all the major non-Latin languages have been in the system since about 1990. CJK was added in the late 90’s.

[* Ed note: Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and Greek were all demonstrated live.]

Q: How many pages per minute can APP do?

Lawrie: APP/3B2 is fast. Format/print speed depend on the complexity of the incoming XML and also the complexity of the output eg. complex tables breaking over pages (horiz and vert) can affect formatting speed). Certainly for a well-constructed template the publishing speed far exceeds FOSI

[Ed note:  APP has a counter visible in the bottom window pane, one boeing doc of nearly 1200 pages was processed at a speed of 130,000 pages per hour. That's right. 130,000.]

Q: If you’ve got data that is deeply nested, complicated xml, does this slow it down?

Lawrie:  “No”!  The XML depth will not slow us down. Although 3B2 has a plethora of XML/XPath tools, it also has an underlying logic set which enables us to remove the tree mode where we use simple format counters instead of the XML hierarchy.

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