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The PTC Dynamic Publishing System

Deliver Higher Quality Information Faster, and at a Lower Cost

Organizations produce many types of documents such as product sheets, operating instructions, user guides, service manuals, training courses, scientific/technical/medical journals, regulatory submissions, textbooks, reference publications, catalogs, policies and procedures. The quality of these publications has a direct impact on the overall success of the business. The task of creating and maintaining these publications in multiple languages and for multiple types of media, both Web and print, can be daunting.


PTC recognized the deficiencies in traditional publishing systems and built the Dynamic Publishing System to be a significant step forward. Compared to desktop publishing tools, this dynamic enterprise publishing system introduces three key innovations that revolutionize the publishing process.

Component-based authoring
By breaking documents into small components, the Dynamic Publishing System enables users to reuse information across publications, assemble different combinations of components, both text and illustrations, for multiple purposes, and automatically update components across many documents with a single click.
High-Quality Interactive Illustrations
By providing integral technical illustration design and viewing tools, the Dynamic Publishing System enables organizations to embed in publications high quality interactive illustrations and animation and thus improve the quality and readability of product or service information.
Process automation
The Dynamic Publishing System eliminates the low-value; labor-intensive processes of traditional publishing software by automating the assembly of information in multiple combinations, and the formatting and publishing of those combinations in multiple forms, both print and electronic.

The result: better information delivered faster and at a lower cost. And by enabling information reuse, automation, and on-demand personalization, the Dynamic Publishing System helps you deliver more accurate and relevant information.

The Dynamic Publishing System is a fully automated integral system, consisting of Arbortext Editor, Arbortext IsoDraw, Arbortext Content Manager, Arbortext Publishing Engine, and Arbortext IsoView, that enables users to address all phases of the publishing process:

  • Create - Author reusable content, components, including text and graphics, and enable the assembly of compound documents from those components.
  • Collaborate - Enable teams to work together regardless of system or geographic boundaries.
  • Control - Manage content across its lifecycle, enforce access control, and set up and monitor automated processes.
  • Configure - Configure compound documents and manage versions, configurations, and formats.
  • Communicate - Dynamically publish your information for different users and audiences in a variety of formats.

The Dynamic Publishing System optimizes the entire publishing process and provides end-to-end support through a broad set of capabilities. The system can be deployed incrementally, in order to deliver value quickly. Furthermore, all components of the Dynamic Publishing System have been designed to work together to reduce risk and lower total cost of ownership.

Learn more on how the Dynamic Publishing System is optimizing information publishing in your industry.

PTC offers the only integral, end-to-end publishing system. The Dynamic Publishing System helps you improve your information quality while reducing costs and time-to-market. The Dynamic Publishing system is targeted at organizations in a variety of industries that offer products or services with multiple options or configurations, serve customers in multiple geographies, or frequently update their product, service, or marketing documentation. Because this high-value solution comes from a single vendor, and because all system components have been designed to work with each other, the Dynamic Publishing System delivers the added benefits of lowest deployment and maintenance costs, reduced risk, and lowest total cost of ownership.


For Companies in Discrete Manufacturing

Companies with technical publications that include, or would like to include, rich interactive graphical information derived from their CAD authoring tools, may want to consider PTC's Product Development System. The PDS delivers additional capabilities beyond those of a dynamic content publishing system while delivering the same architectural and deployment benefits. Additional capabilities include:

  • Embed graphical content in documents that automatically update when product designs change
  • Publish electronic versions of technical documents with accurate isometric 2-dimensional and interactive 3-dimensional technical illustrations derived from engineering design data
  • Simultaneously manage engineering designs, changes, bill of materials, and technical documents