Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher (aka Arbortext APP or APP, formerly Advent CPS and 3B2) is a composition and pagination software package published by PTC (www.ptc.com).

APP supports various international standards including SGML, XML, XSLT, XPath, XSL-FO, SVG, Tex and Unicode.

Core Features:

• APP is available as a Standard or Unicode Version.
• APP can be automated through it's own internal programming languge (called script) and/or Perl scripting.
• APP files can publish pages without any manual intervention.
• APP files can interact with the user when required.
• APP files can be driven externally through link files or built-in ODBC compliant database interface (build-in ODBC only Standard Version).
• The APP math functionality enables the incorporation of the math within the document itself.
• APP's TeX engine supports professional typesetting of mathematical and scientific formulae.
• APP is enabled and integrated with Windchill Project Management Systems.
• APP can be in run be blackbox mode.
• APP has an optional OCX interface.
• GUI is available in English, German and French.
• APP uses LibXML for XML.

For APP are also several free additional libraries available:

• APP Markup Library: MathML, Entities and Cals Tables.
• Development Assistant
• Perl Library

Customers of PTC using APP:

• The European Union uses APP for typesetting its multilingual legislations.
• Boeing and Rockwell Collins use APP for publishing their aircraft manuals.
• Macmillan Publishers, Springer Verlag, Sweet & Maxwell and others use APP for their journal publishing.
• The Charlesworth publishing group in UK uses APP for publishing STM journals.

Typesetting software

Arbortext 3B2