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Anonymous
May 4, 2011
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Arbortext 5.4 M080 and Win7

  • May 4, 2011
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Hello all, quick win7 question;



I am testing an installation of 5.4 M080 on a VM slice running Win7.



What I am seeing when I start Arbortext is the cannot locate DTD/Schema
error on startup before the window loads. It's looking for

"C:\Users\Public\Desktop\macros.dtd".



I have my APTCUSTOM set to point to a server location. I tried setting
APTPATH to point explicitly at the install tree, but nothing seems to
prevent the error.



If I just select "Open in free-form" the window opens normally with no
issues that I can see (we haven't been using macros, so I didn't try
them out).



Anyone have an idea of what may be causing this?



Thanks,



-Jason

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    ClayHelberg18-Opal
    18-Opal
    May 4, 2011
    Hi Jason-



    I haven't worked with Win7 yet, but judging from the error message, this
    is probably related to your catalog path. Have you checked your catalog
    path setting to make sure it includes %D?



    --Clay



    Clay Helberg

    Senior Consultant

    TerraXML


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    Anonymous
    May 4, 2011
    I don't explicitly set an APTCATPATH, but I did check the catalog path
    in the prefs and it was there and correct.


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    ClayHelberg18-Opal
    18-Opal
    May 4, 2011
    OK. Macros.dtd is part of the Arbortext infrastructure, used for
    managing recorded macros. I guess the next thing I'd try is work through
    the catalog files in the install structure to make sure the catalog that
    defines the actual location of this file (usually
    $ARBORTEXT/doctypes/macros/macros.dtd) is accessible, and that the file
    itself exists.



    Also, check any catalog files in your custom directory structure to make
    sure you aren't inadvertently redirecting the public ID to the wrong
    location. The public ID is "-//Arbortext//DTD Macros XML 1.0//EN".



    HTH.



    --Clay



    Clay Helberg

    Senior Consultant

    TerraXML


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    DavidS.Taylor1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    May 5, 2011
    Hi Jason,

    You don't say whether you have successfully run 5.4 M080 on Windows 7 (not in a VM). I have been using 5.4 M080 on Win7 for several months without any problems (other than ones of my own making...).

    On my Win7 system there is a directory "C:\Users\Public\Public Desktop" which contains just the shortcuts to start Editor and Architect. APTCUSTOM is set as a user environment variable and points to the server directory where all our doctypes and custom files are located (on our network users must map the required share to a specific drive letter before starting Editor). I don't set APTPATH or APTCATPATH.

    What VM are you using?

    David

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