History
- Mid-1980s: Swindon-based company Advent Publishing Systems creates 3B2, a desktop publishing application. 3B2 gained a reputation as a challenger for QuarkXPress, but was soon eclipsed by that product in the DTP world and itself evolved into the high end automation market. The name 3B2 comes from the business park in Swindon (UK) that Advent had its offices at the time.
- Early 2000s: Advent integrate more XML technologies into 3B2, allowing users to associate formatting with XML hierarchies. In 2003 Printing World magazine reported that Springer-Verlag was planning to implement an automated page production process. Dr Patrick Thibor of Springer was quoted as saying "we believe that 3B2 is the only tool available for automated page make up and will enable us to meet our goal of totally automatic production of pages".
- 2004: Advent Publishing Systems is purchased by Arbortext to provide a more powerful alternative to that product's existing FOSI/TeX engine.
- 2005: Arbortext purchased by PTC to provide technical documentation capabilities in its product lifecycle management tools.
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