This document is intended as an introduction to the PTC Arbortext Layout Developer product, with the objective of giving you a basic understanding of how the product works and how it can be used to support your particular requirements for a document production process.

Additional material to help you consolidate and extend your knowledge of the product can be found in the documents listed below:

These chapters contain further information on subjects that have been introduced in this guide:

These manuals can be found in the Reference Chapters section of the PTC ALD Help Center, accessed by selecting the Help menu option.

As the name suggests, this document contains details of all the macros and processing instructions used in PTC ALD, plus their associated parameters and values. It can be found in the PTC ALD Help Center, accessed by selecting the Help menu option.

This document contains descriptions of all the objects defined in the Formatting Object Model, plus details of their associated properties and methods. It can be found in the PTC ALD Help Center, accessed by selecting the Help menu option.

These manuals contain information on subjects that have not been touched on in this guide. They will, however, provide the detail you will need to work with particular types of data :

These manuals can be found in the Manuals section of the PTC ALD Help Center, accessed by selecting the Help menu option.