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APP (3B2) Users' Meeting 2010
The User's meeting was held
at the Novotel London Paddington on the 8-9th of March
2010. The event was attended by almost 50 people
representing 30 companies from 11 different countries,
Europe to the USA, India and
South Africa.
Over the 2 days we heard from PTC
representatives about the organisation and it's
cooperation with the VAR network to provide APP support.
The PTC development team gave us in-depth detail about the
recently released version 10, its integration with the
Arbortext product line and future development including
a planned version 11 release in early 2011 (with enhanced
PDF capabilities!)
We also saw a number of technology
solution presentations regarding MS Word document
conversion, composing complex directories using the APP
DirectoryComposer and had a interesting open
floor Q&A session with a wide range of questions posed
to the panel.
This was the first dedicated English APP
(3B2) users' meeting to be held for 5 years and by the
strength of users attendance, positive delegate feedback and the
clear commitment from PTC to the APP product from
version 10 to 11 and beyond, there will be further
dedicated APP events in the future from tformat and our
partners.
All of the presentation slides and
sample files from the event are available to those who
attended and our Support++ maintenance customers.
(please contact us if your are interested to see the
event presentation content)
If you are interested in future Arbortext APP (3B2) events held
by tformat or our partners, please contact us at
events@tformat.com
to be added to our mailing list.
Feedback Quotes from delegates:
"I’m
very impressed with the organisation of the event and
the quality of the speakers and their talks."
[MediaCreator SE]
"Great competence about speakers and users .
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[Antica Tipografia IT]
The good points where "To meet fellow users, to
meet the guys from PTC, insight in version 10, PTCs
promises on version 11"
[Japes NL]
The good points where "Seeing
Dave Hartnoll’s presentation, using javascript streams
to manipulate a page; learning how other people use 3B2;
talking to other, more experienced 3B2 users."
[T&F UK]
"Over all observation about the
meeting was very good. And the PTC participations show
the products future and importance."
[Newgen IN]
Event Details
The tformat APP
(3B2) users' meeting event for 2010 is being held on March
the 8th and 9th in London, UK. This event is open to
users, developers and managers worldwide.
The meeting will be held over one and a half days and
contain management and technical sessions along with
interactive workshops. This event will also give you the
opportunity to meet and share experiences with other
users and developers.
The meeting is supported by PTC and our
partners at DATACOPY.
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Day One (13:00-17:30+) |
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Welcome, about us & the 3B2-to-APP
community |
Chris Western
Director tformat ltd
Chris Western, Director and owner of tformat ltd.
After qualifying in Art and Design, Chris spent
a number of years in Design and typesetting
houses using various software packages including 3B2, before joining
Advent Publishing Systems in 1998. During his time with Advent and following their acquisition
by Arbortext and PTC, Chris worked in various technical roles all centred around
3B2, related technologies and business
activities. Since this time Chris has co-founded and
helped establish other 3B2 solution companies
including Pinpoint Composition and GPSL. Chris continues to provide technical
and reseller services to customers in the UK and worldwide with his company tformat ltd,
and partners.
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PTC and the Arbortext
business groupThe PTC organisation and
specialist areas including the Arbortext business group. |
Martin Cooke
PTC Arbortext Enterprise Publishing Sales Manager
This is Martin’s 15th year at PTC where he is currently responsible for
the European Strategic Partner Group. Prior to working in the Partner group
Martin was involved in integrating Arbortext into PTC having led both the Arbortext
services and sales operations for the UK and Europe. During his time at PTC Martin
has been involved in the majority of customer facing roles, including Sales, I*Centre
and Global Services. Prior to PTC Martin worked at English Electric, GEC and Alstom in
several technical roles including Business Analyst, CAD Manager and Design Engineer.
He has qualifications in Mechanical and Production Engineering as well as IT. |
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Development status update,
plans for APP and the related Arbortext product family
In this session, Simon will give an overview of powerful new capabilities
exposed in APP’s version 10 as well as looking forward to the next release.
The presentation will also look at how APP fits into the larger picture of the
rest of the Arbortext product suite. |
Simon Taylor
PTC
Arbortext Product Manager
Simon Taylor is the Product Manager for the Advanced Print Publisher and Arbortext Styler
and has been in the role for the past four years. In the 13 years he has been using APP,
Simon has been a customer, worked in Services for both Advent and Arbortext, and also worked
in a Presales capacity for Arbortext and PTC. He has a wide range of experience using APP
to solve diverse publishing problems, from product catalogues to STM journals and legislative documents.
Simon uses knowledge gained as a user to help plan and specify requirements for his products,
balancing customer requests with internal product development initiatives. Simon still likes to
get his hands dirty writing code in APP and is often found playing with new features or checking
out work in development. |
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PTC Global Maintenance Support
Henrick will be talking about the PTC Global Support organisation, the systems and resources
available to customers directly from PTC and how PTC work closely with local value added resellers
(VAR's) to provide additional specialist knowledge. |
Henrik Hanicke
PTC
NER Maintenance Sales Manager
Henrik Hanicke, Manager PTC NER Maintenance Sales,
born in the year of the Ox joined PTC in December 2006
being in charge of the Northern Europe direct maintenance sales.
In April 2008 he became responsible for NER maintenance channel
and its partners.
Henrik has an MSC in Mechanical Design and had a prior career in
product development and technical sales in the automotive industry.
He also held a position as assistant technical lecturer at Chalmers
University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden. |
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About DATACOPY, APP
support++ and the European APP market
APP support++, what is in it for you? Rainer Schmidt, CEO of DATACOPY
publishing solutions gmbh, gives an overview on the advantages customers have
when they decide for established the APP maintenance contract with DATACOPY or
one of it's sub resellers. He will speak about the Perl and Add-On libraries,
about the pocket references and about the support team which reacts quick and
competent on all your inquiries. |
Rainer Schmidt
CEO DATACOPY GmbH
Rainer Schmidt, CEO and shareholder of DATACOPY publishing solutions gmbh
founded the company 29 years ago. In all these years his major goal was to
develop automated publishing solutions based on the world's best publishing
software available. In 1991 he identified 3B2 to be best in using
standards like SGML and he started to sell 3B2 in Central Europe.
On top of this DATACOPY developed solutions based of 3B2 (APP) like
DirectoryComposer, LexiconComposer and others. Today, DATACOPY supports
and consults about 220 customers in all publishing sectors worldwide. |
Presenting an automated journals production
solution:
Converting from MS Word to XML and
automated journal composition using APP
In this presentation we will see an example of a recent automated
journals production solution delivered by DATACOPY.
Dr. Stefan Hermann and Uwe Braun
will be demonstrating how the infinity-loop product upCast
was used as part of the workflow in this solution to convert
MS Word documents to XML and automatically compose them in APP. |
Dr. Stefan Herman
CEO infinity-loop GmbH
Stefan Hermann is one of the founders of infinity-loop where he currently
serves as CEO. He received his Masters degree in computer science and his doctorate
from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. His doctorate focused on design
specification methods for structured documents in the digital publication process.
Uwe Braun
CDO DATACOPY GmbHUwe was born 1962 in the street canyons of Cologne. His first wish, to be become
a pirate could not be met. So the young rebel joined a boarding school for
professional fencing athletes in Bonn where he also finished high school.
During his study of history at the dignified Friedrich-Wilhelm alma mater
in Bonn he jobbed in a typesetting company where he came into touch with 3B2.
The rest is history. Today, Uwe is Chief Development Officer of DATACOPY publishing systems gmbh living at Lake Constance
where he develops individual customer solutions, products and improves his cornering technique on mountain
bikes with more than 160mm deflection.
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Drinks reception* and Evening Dinner
in the Elements Dining room
In the evening there will be a drinks reception for all delegates in the bar
followed by an informal dinner in the hotel's elements restaurant. |
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Day Two (09:00-17:30+) |
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Introduction to Arbortext
Suite products and APP integration
APP is just part of a larger suite of applications provided by Arbortext
which are focussed on dynamic publishing of XML content. This presentation will
look more closely at the products on offer and how APP works within this environment. |
Simon Taylor
PTC
Arbortext Product Manager |
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APP Workshop, detailed overview of new features
and methods in version 9 and 10 (2.45hrs)
Version 10 of APP was a very significant step forward in the development of the application.
The focus was on improving development techniques and building tighter integration with the
Arbortext publishing products. This APP Workshop session will give an in-depth look at the
new functionality introduced into APP to meet these aims and how they can be used by any
APP user to develop more powerful and productive templates. |
Simon Taylor supported by Chris Western |
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Automated Directory solutions and Directory Composer
In this session Uwe will introduce us to directory composition in APP
and the 'Directory Composer' solution from DATACOPY. |
Uwe Braun
CDO DATACOPY GmbH |
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Starting to think
'object-orientated' in Version 10.Durring this session Dave will introduce us
the new named-frames, layers and dpage concepts in version 10 as a starting point for
users to start thinking about 'object-orientated' development with the Formatting Object Model (FOM). |
Dave Hartnoll
PTC APP Development Director
Dave Hartnoll, Technical Fellow at PTC. Dave has worked as a
professional programmer for nearly 30 years with a wide range of
experience. He started out writing in-house office admin applications on
a Commodore Pet and later became a Systems programmer working at the
operating system level. Dave's big break came 25 years ago with his
appointment to Advent, the original developers of 3B2 (now known as
APP). Dave has been involved with 3B2 since the first line of code was
written for it in 1986 and has made numerous major contributions to its
development. After the acquisitions of Advent by Arbortext, and
subsequently of Arbortext by PTC, Dave spent a few years in
management-oriented roles but recently became a Technical Fellow so that
he could spend more time leading the team and doing hands-on development
once again.
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Presentation of APP add-on/perl libraries
& Pocket Guides
In this session Uwe will introduce us to the additional add-on
libraries and pocket guides available to developers and support++ customers. |
Uwe Braun
CDO DATACOPY GmbH |
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APP interactive sessions,
Q&A, the APP features wish list and what would you like to see.
This session will be an informal discussion for delegates to ask further questions about the
presentations they have seen or their own systems and requirements. All of the representatives from tformat,
DATACOPY and PTC will be on hand to answer your questions or follow up with you.
We will also discuss future APP features, planned and potential to give you an
opportunity to get your needs
added to the wish list for developer consideration. |
PTC, tformat and DATACOPY |
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Conference round-up and the
APP future |
Chris Western |
The Novotel London Paddington is a new 4 star
hotel, located in the Paddington Central area. The hotel
is easily accessible by road and a few minutes walk from
Paddington Station. This modern hotel has WiFi internet,
Elements restaurant and bar and modern conference
facilities, as well as a swimming pool, sauna and
fitness room for relaxation. For more
information about the venue
please visit the hotel web site
here.
The full 2 day package includes:
- The full meeting programme of
presentations and interactive sessions over 1.5 days
- Printed program and presentation
information pack
- Break refreshments
- Drinks reception and evening dinner
on day 1
- Lunch on day 2
- Novotel 4 star conference venue
(accommodation is not included)
The cost per delegate is £290 +VAT. (Single day options are also available;
Day 1 @ £155, Day 2 @ £190).
Registration for the
2010 event is closed.
If you have any questions about the users meeting or
your registration, please contact us directly at:
events@tformat.com.
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