Overview of Arbortext Styler
Arbortext Styler helps you create simple to complex stylesheets for publishing to multiple outputs. There are two versions of Arbortext Styler:
1. The free version of Arbortext Styler is available with Arbortext Editor and enables you to develop stylesheets to control display in Arbortext Editor. You cannot use the free version of Arbortext Styler to develop stylesheets for any kind of output.
2. The full version of Arbortext Styler is a separate product and enables you to develop stylesheets for all supported output formats.
Available on all supported Windows operating systems, Arbortext Styler can be used to create stylesheets to format all documents that use the same set of DTD or schema elements. You can also create stylesheets for publishing to multiple output formats, such as print, PDF, and HTML. Creating a stylesheet involves defining rules for how elements are to be formatted in all the contexts in which they can appear, and for all the desired outputs.
Stylesheets created with Arbortext Styler are saved with a .style extension. Arbortext Editor and Arbortext Publishing Engine automatically recognize a .style file as a stylesheet. If you want to use XSL or FOSI stylesheets, you can export a .style stylesheet to these formats from within Arbortext Styler. You can also export a stylesheet as a Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher (APP) template (a .3f file).
Arbortext Styler supports modularized stylesheets. This enables you to develop a stylesheet from modular components. Multiple stylesheets can share common modules, which adds flexibility to stylesheet design and reduces development time. A stylesheet can reference any other stylesheet as a module.