The integration of PTC ALD with Arbortext Styler provides access to PTC ALD's capabilities for formatting documents that contain text in languages other than the standard Latin languages, for example Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, or those in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) group. The following features can be used to support font selection, punctuation, and text properties required to format certain languages correctly:

Refer to Page Layout Overview for further information.

Refer to Stylesheet Properties — Print/PDF for further information.

You may include printers’ marks in both print and PDF output when it is published with PTC ALD:

With Arbortext Styler's edited source feature, you can access the source code in your stylesheet and extend it for PTC ALD with Javascript code based on PTC ALD's FOM code model. See Editing Stylesheet Source Overview and Editing Stylesheet Source Examples for further information about editing stylesheet source.

You can associate an PTC ALD template (.3f file) with your Arbortext Styler stylesheet. If you select this option you can extend the stylesheet with the code from the PTC ALD template. Your stylesheet can then perform PTC ALD tasks not available from the Arbortext Styler interface or edited source, such as scripting, style code, and control stream-driven functionality, e.g. anchors and colors. If you associate a template with your stylesheet, the template code will override the stylesheet code if definitions of the same object exist in both files. The PTC ALD tag description contained in the template code will therefore take precedence over that contained in the stylesheet, such as that generated by stylesheet conversion. For example, if your PTC ALD template contains an autoexec script this will be used in preference to any default scripting provided by the stylesheet.

See Associating an PTC ALD Template With a Stylesheet.

If you have created a Arbortext Styler stylesheet that contains PTC ALD-specific information, you can export that stylesheet from Arbortext Styler as an PTC ALD template. Once you have created the template in this way you can use the template in a standalone PTC Arbortext Layout Developer environment, without the need for Arbortext Styler to be running to interpret the stylesheet/template. You may also then use PTC Arbortext Layout Developer to touch up, extend, or update the template.

See Exporting Stylesheets.