File Extensions
File Extensions Used by Arbortext Editor and Arbortext Publishing Engine
• .3ad: PTC APP system configuration file
• .3d: PTC APP document
• .3f: PTC APP template file
• .3sppdf: PTC APP PDF configuration file (old-format file type, no longer supported by PTC)
• .acb: Compiled ACL code
• .acl: Arbortext Command Language file
• .alias: Alias names for a document type’s tags and attributes
• .amo: internal compiled translations file
• .appcf: PTC APP PDF and PostScript configuration file
• .cpacf: Arbortext Change Page for Defense configuration file
• .ccf: Composer configuration file
• .cf: generic configuration file
• .dcf: Document type configuration file
• .dmf: Data merge file
• .exc: hyphenation exceptions file
• .fos: FOSI stylesheet
• .genfos: Styler stylesheet compiled into a FOSI
• .iso: IsoDraw file
• .lcf: layout configuration file
• .lex, .clx, .ths: Proximity spelling checking, dictionary, and thesaurus files
• .map: Keystroke mappings
• .mcf: PTC Arbortext macro file
• .mod: DTD module
• .pat: Hyphenation pattern rules file
• .pcf: Profile configuration file
• .prcf: Publishing rule configuration file
• .pvz: ProductView file
• .sch: Schematron file
• .style: Arbortext Styler stylesheet
• .tmx: Macro formatting file
• .wcf: Preferences file
• .xyz: Arbortext Import project file for transformations and their definitions
Industry Standard File Extensions Used by Arbortext Editor and Arbortext Publishing Engine
• .afm, .pfa, .pfb, .ttf, .tfm: Font files
• .chm: HTML Help
• .dita: DITA document
• .ditamap: DITA map
• .dtd: document type definition
• .dvi: Device independent file for print or preview
• .ent: Entity
• .sgm: SGML (standard generalized markup language) document
• .tex: formatting file
• .xlf: XLIFF files used for localization
• .xml: XML (extensible markup language) document
• .xsd: XML schema definition
• .xsl, .xslt, .xsl_fo: extensible stylesheet language files