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The Arbortext Formatting Engine and PTC Advanced Print Publisher
The most commonly used content compilers are the Arbortext Formatting Engine and the PTC Advanced Print Publisher. Both provide a mechanism for transforming an XML or SGML document for previewing or to be published to PDF or PostScript. Each offers different capabilities.