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Terminology
As with most other languages and applications, PTC Advanced Print Publisher has its own set of terminology:
Element
A mark-up structure enclosed within angled brackets. This term is always used when working with markup in PTC Advanced Print Publisher to avoid confusion with the word tag, which has a very specific meaning in PTC Advanced Print Publisher.
Tag
An PTC Advanced Print Publisher content object used to hold different types of document information. PTC Advanced Print Publisher has many different tag types, and they each have a different purpose. Understanding PTC Advanced Print Publisher’s tags and their uses is fundamental to understanding the product. Refer to Tags for further information.
Reference
This term has two meanings in PTC Advanced Print Publisher:
◦ A type of PTC Advanced Print Publisher tag
◦ An inline item used to create running headers, footnotes, and indexes
The second type is relevant to the integration of PTC Advanced Print Publisher in Arbortext Styler.
Frame
A page-level content holder. Frames are rectangular boxes which hold text and graphics and are referred to as page regions in the Arbortext Styler interface. Frames are the basic building blocks of pages and have several properties which govern their appearance and behavior. Refer to Frames for further information.
Layer
A layer is a page-level component used to group a number of frames together. Refer to Page Layers and Layer Groups for information.
Script
In PTC Advanced Print Publisher, a script is used to describe any code tag, whether it is written in JavaScript, macros, showstrings, or processing instructions.
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Macros, showstrings, and processing instructions in this context are proprietary PTC Advanced Print Publisher code forms.
Scripts are used to drive the automation process and manage conditional formatting.
Formatting Object Model (FOM)
The Formatting Object Model (FOM) is PTC Advanced Print Publisher’s JavaScript API. It describes the main components of an PTC Advanced Print Publisher template and the main parts of the formatting process.