Arbortext 3B2

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Arbortext 3B2 (originally Advent 3B2 , 3B2 for short ) is a computer program for the sentence area . It is now called "Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher".

history

The origin of the program was developed and marketed by Advent in Swindon , UK. The original program name "3B2" is said to have originated from the fact that the developers simply used the house number of their company headquarters instead of searching for a long and effective advertising name.

In 2004 Advent Publishing Systems Ltd. Acquired by Arbortext Inc. and renamed the product "Arbortext 3B2". Arbortext, in turn, was taken over by PTC in 2005 and the product was named "Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher".

3B2 was based on the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) from the start. This enabled it to process SGML and Extensible Markup Language (XML) very early on without any conversion losses. The Unicode variant was added only after the standard variant and enabled the internationalization of documents including languages ​​with non-Latin characters and writing directions.

The program calculates internally metrically in ten-thousandths of a millimeter and recognizes the differences between 17 partly national units of measurement when entering data. The software was developed according to the XSL standard 1.1 of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). 3B2 also supports open standards such as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), XSL Transformation (XSLT), Extensible Stylesheet Language - Formatting Objects (XSL-FO), XML Path Language ( XPath ), SGML (with built-in and a SaX parser), Mathematical Markup Language (MathML), TeX , CALS and the graphic format Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).

Proprietary script languages ​​such as show string (sentence control) and script programming (program control) have been used in 3B2 since the beginning. Perl was later added with its own data library. In version 9.1 (as of May 16, 2007) Java is also accessible. Undisciplined programming can quickly become disastrous in 3B2, especially since there is no debugger as there is with classic programming languages, because it would have to know all languages.

In addition to its old font format (FNT / Typ3), 3B2 now also uses TrueType and OpenType fonts based on TrueType and PostScript . Due to the strong programmability it is possible to realize a complete automation of layouts with different languages. The clear strengths of 3B2 are catalog productions, technical documentation, legal works and everything that seems formalizable. 3B2 offers very detailed typographical options for a high-quality work set .

3B2 exists in the following versions:

  • 3B2 standard
  • 3B2 Unicode
  • 3B2 server

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PTC - Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher - Document Automation ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed on May 19, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ptc.com