Looking for questions to ask in Arbortext training

[Dan Dube (DocZone)]

I'd be concerned about the back-end publishing component.

Arbortext Editor is fine for authoring XML, and is competitively priced
for that piece of functionality. However, their publishing technology
has traditionally been obscenely overpriced (in my opinion), slow, and
based on old technology and standards (FOSI). You don't state how you
are going to compose the long documents, but it would be best to
probably feed it to a good XSL-FO rendering tool, such as Antenna House
or RenderX. These are much more affordable than any publishing tool sold
by PTC/Arbortext, and based on modern standards. (You will need to build
or have someone else set up FO stylesheets for you.)

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Castro [mailto:thejavaguy at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 7:56 PM
To: Pinkham, Jim
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Looking for questions to ask in Arbortext training

On 9/6/06, Pinkham, Jim <Jim.Pinkham at voith.com> wrote:
> What kind of publication environment will you be using this in?

Good point. I'll be using this as an employee of a government
subcontractor. I believe that this will only be used for new long
documents (user manuals, system administrator guides, installation
guides), though it may be used for new versions of existing documents.
We will be using the S1000D DTD, and will generate PDFs to be sent out
(primarily) to the fleet.

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-David Castro
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