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Hello all,I'm using Editor and PE 5.4 M100, and I'm having difficulty publishing a large doc to PDF.Ok, so the document itself is XML, ATA-style markup, and uses FOSI. It's roughly 2.2MB in size, contains references to about 200 bi-level TIFF graphic ents, and also contains several hundred instances of ID/IDREF pairs.By turning off graphic display and gentext, I was able to get the document to load pretty quickly into the Editor (about 15 seconds). No completeness errors or anything.Either sending this to PE or by using the local Print Composer (using distiller for PDF), I cannot get this document to render. I had my maxBusyInterval set to 30 minutes, and it considered the subprocess for this composition hung and restarted it. Other than that, I can get no indication of errors or issues that I can address. My PC for local composition is XP, with a dual-core Intel and 3Gb RAM.The development server I'm using for PE has 4 quad-core CPUs and 48Gb of RAM.Anyone have any ideas? I tried sear

I'm trying to install IsoDraw 7.0 to a new machine, but I'm not having any luck. It a node-locked license. When I attempt to load it asks for a dongle (which went away years ago). Also, does it need FlexNet and if so, how do you load it for a single computer?

Hi,we have a problem with cgms in Arbortext. We make the drawings with CATIA and then save them to cgm. In Arbortext the drawings look fine and in the preview as well. Nevertheless, when we convert the preview into a PDF, some cgms have funny fines all over them. If we have a look on these drawings in PowerPoint, some other funny lines are shown, but with other programs the cgms look fine.Any ideas to how we can resolve our problem?Thanks in advance!Monica

For anyone out there who is using MIL-STD-40051-1 or 40051-2 (not 1A or 2A), MIL-HDBK-2361C IS FINALLY published and available on the ASSIST web page (all 1458 pages of it).

How can I use IsoView to view 3D objects? Can IsoDraw render a 3D view which can be moved and rotated freely? What file format does it need to be in? I have a VRML/WRL file that IsoView does not recognize.I've attached a WRL file as an example.

If I have a CGM with a textbox which has a text value of BLUE, can I use JavaScript to modify the value to say RED?   I was only able to find Iso3SetGrAttribute and Iso3SetStringAttrValue functions in Chapter 15 of the programmer's reference however it is not doing what I want it to do, or I'm using it incorrectly.

Hi Adepters,I'm looking for advice about making DITA specializations in an Arbortext 6.0 environment (initiallyonly attribute and domain specializations).I've got the principles (more or less), not least thanks to Mr Eliot Kimber's excellent tutorials at

How can i change the "PDF" map key to prompt me to pick a location to put it in. I'm guessing it's in the config.pro file but i don't know what to change it to if i'm correct.mapkey pdf @MAPKEY_LABELPDF;~ Command `ProCmdModelSaveAs`;\mapkey(continued) ~ Close `main_dlg_cur` `adbFile_cb`;~ Open `file_saveas` `type_option`;\mapkey(continued) ~ Close `file_saveas` `type_option`;\mapkey(continued) ~ Select `file_saveas` `type_option`1 `db_617`;\mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `file_saveas` `mydocs_pb`;~ Activate `file_saveas` `OK`;\ <--here ??mapkey(continued) ~ Select `intf_profile` `pdf_export.PDFMainTab`1 `pdf_export.PDFContent`;\mapkey(continued) ~ Select `intf_profile` `pdf_export.pdf_font_stroke`1 `pdf_stroke_all`;\mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `intf_profile` `OkPshBtn`;\mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `main_dlg_cur` `main_dlg_cur`;thanks,

I'm trying to view a profiled DITA document (Edit |Profiles | View Profiled Document).My profiles show up fine, but the profiled document doesn't display. Arbortext can't find the profiling.dtd. It's looking for it in c:\windows\system32, not in the Arbortext install directory (see error message below)I feel like my config must be really messed up. Anybody have any tips on where to look to solve this one?BTW, thanks for all the recent help. I'd be lost without this list. Steve<record date="Mon" oct=" 29=" 21:14:32=" pdt=" 2012"=" millis="1351570472228"<br"/>severity="fatal" suppress="0" thread="main"><level>FATAL ERROR</level><message>Fatal error encountered while runningcomposition pipeline. Configuration File: "C:\Program Files\PTC\ArbortextEditor\composer\createPrds.ccf".</message><context class="com.arbortext.epic.internal.compose.ComposerImpl"<br"/>lineNumber="263" method="runPipeline" systemId="ComposerImpl.java">&l

Hello everyone,I'm looking for a way to use a relative patch to associate a 3f file with a stylesheet. The properties dialog in Styler allows you to browse to a 3f file, but I want to make this location relative to the custom folder so I don't have to either configure it on each machine or impose a standard location. Although, there will be a standard location for all machines, I would rather have everything looking in the custom folder by default.I tried using %APTCUSTOM%\path\my.3f, but the env. variable doesn't resolve. I'm open to any ideas.Thanks,-Jeff

Hi,I've been assigned for UI enhancement for Arbortext Editor. When the user opens a document with the help of Menu item, system opens a widow providing options to filter the documents. I need to customize this with more user friendly.Here Iam looking for suggestion on the environment to be used for UI customization. Can I use J2EE to achieve our requirement. If so, how can i invoke an .ear from Arbortext editor.It would be really helpful, if you provide some pointers to refer to pickup my task quickly.Thanks,Samba.

Hello!I use Epic 5.1 and Arbortext Editor 5.2. I use Java and ACL in order to create my plugin (most of it is written in Java).I need to detect that the cursor is out of some range when the keys are pressed. So, I need to write a callback within my *.acl file or in Java. I've made a mouse click handler, but the cursor can be moved via keyboard too.Please, give me some piece of advice.

The .dvi file can be opened with pubview, and the index entries appear in Preview. There are no error messages. Tech Support sez they have replicated the problem and are looking into it. >---------->>

To all:I thought I recall when I took the FOSI class (or another) from PTC tenyears or so ago, that I could rename the attributes names to a userfriendly in the editor. I want to rename an attribute of S2bS0 to somethingthe writer understands. I want Epic to use the right value, but the writersees something nicer. I just do not remember.d

I have a very interesting problem that I can't seem to get my hands wrapped around and was wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue.I'm running Arbortext 6.0 M020 64 bit on a Windows 7 64 bit workstation. Everytime I try to print preview a document, using Print Composer,I receive the [preview pending] message in the bottom right corner but the preview never displays and the computer just locks up.Any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

HeyI am aware that you can hide specific elements/attributes with ElementOptions/AttributeOptions in the dcf file however I have a problem where I need to hide one of the attribute's value so for example:element <test>attribute @myAttr, possbile values ('Test1', 'Test2', 'Test3')I would like to have element <test> to show only 'Test1' and 'Test2' in some kind of conditional situation so let's say when parent of <test> is <application> then show all attribute values of @myAttr, when parent of <test> is <development> then show only 'Test1' 'Test2' without 'Test3'.Any help with this would be much appreciated!Thanks allMarcin

I'm hitting an issue that I think comes from a classpath issue in Arbortext. I've added to my Java code the following:ClassLoader cl = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader();URL[] urls = ((URLClassLoader)cl).getURLs();for(URL url: urls){ System.out.println(url.getFile());}And I'm getting local environment (not Arbortext default) classes at the beginning of the list and at the end of the list.The jar files at the end of the list are from the APTCLASSPATH, but the ones in the beginning are not. They are also not in my classpath.I actually want my libraries to load first, before the Arbortext libraries, but it appears APTCLASSPATH adds them to the end.So my questions are:1. Is there a way to add my libraries to the start of the classpath?2. Are there other ways to specify classpaths for Arbortext?Thanks, Steve

Hello All,I have a query i hoped someone can throw some light on please.How to drive AE from external application, eg. to get it to run anything simple like "beep" or "caret" from the command line, on an XML file that is already open.Starting Editor fresh and doing this on a newly opened file is no problem (as below).[editor.exe -C2 "beep" "myfile.xml"]OR[editor.exe -C2 "source mycommands.acl" "myfile.xml"]I have tried variations of getting the current doc, focusing the current window, current this and that, with no luck so farAny suggestions would be welcome.Many thanksChris

Adepters:I've installed AE 6.0 patch M030 for some evaluation. One thing I notice is that my center mouse scroll button no longer works. It worked in AE 5.4 and works in every other application I use. It works in any AE sub-window I open (text entity dialog box, advanced preferences, etc.), but not in the main edit window.Any ideas what I need to do to enable that?DaveSiemens

Thought it would be easy. Gave the monitor team the f=convert URL fore3demo.xml to html. Modified the XML to say, "Tell mother I feel fine" (ok,not really, but something like that in business speak) but for some reasonthe monitor, which is allegedly watching for text on the results page,false positives at least a couple of times a day. (It's on a 15 minutecycle with a 5 minute allowed response time ... typically the page willdisplay in under a minute ... if we consume our processing threads, though,it could conceivable take more.)The monitor team is saying it is the fact that the page is generated, not"plain html" that is likely the cause. This makes no sense to me if it'sjust watching the resulting loaded page. But maybe my knowledge of thesubtleties of HTTP is lacking. So we're telling the monitor to watch forthe HTTP 200 Response code for now. They have suggested I modify the scriptto do the conversion and report OK or FAIL depending on the outcome. Whichyeah uh huh like maybe I'll

Does somebody knows how to read Excell table by ACL code? I need to read an Excell table which is looking as Illustrated Part Catalog, that is it contains rows with cells: callout_number, number_part, name_part, quantity.Firstly task is looked simple: I saved Excell like csv file and then read lines of csv file as text file by ACL code. But some cells of origin Excell table containes few lines of text in one cell: 2 or 3 or even 4 lines of text, which have been separated by new lineseparator. In such case a string of csv file is interrupted in the separator place and it begins from new line. Structure of csv file becomes complex.So Ibelieve it is more easy torecognize Excell.Thanks in advance, if help is possible.Alexander Neder

What would cause the Host ID on a particular machine to change?I have a user that was using editor version 6.0 M040 on an MS Windows XP machine for about the last three weeks including earlier this morning. This user rebooted the machine because Outlook seemed to be running slowly. An attempt to use editor after the reboot has failed with a Licensing Error dialog. We are using node-locked licensing with 'PTC_D_LICENSE_FILE' pointing to the file provided by PTC (lm_<some number=">_standard.txt) stored on the machine's C:\ drive. The Host ID being reported on this error dialog is different from the one submitted to get the original license file.The user is not trying to remotely connect to this PC which I know from earlier posts is not supported using this 'improved' license manager.Any clues? I only have 30 users, but if this is going to happen randomly we're going to have to do something different.Thanks,-BillWilliam CroshierSystems Technical Information DevelopmentGeneral Dynami

I'm using schematron to extend the check completeness functionality for DITA topics. Since a lot of my extended tests are similar, I'd like to put them in files that are then called, via include into the schematron file for this document.Like this:<schema xmlns="<a" style="COLOR:" blue;=" text-decoration:=" underline"=" target="_BLANK" href="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron">">http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron"> <ns uri="<a" style="COLOR:" blue;=" text-decoration:=" underline"=" target="_BLANK" href="http://www.arbortext.com/namespace/atict"">http://www.arbortext.com/namespace/atict" prefix="atict"/> <include href="ditabase.sch"/"> ....</schema>When I do that, though, the event log opens with a bunch of messages (see below).Are includes allowed? If so, how do I avoid these messages? If not, does anyone have a good method for maintaining multiple, similar schematron files?Thanks, SteveEvent log messages:<divisio

Is there a way to make a XUI dialog textbox render HTML?, like specifically anchor tags with URIs in them?I know there's a method for just displaying HTML in a help dialog (like for custom help), but I'm looking at something interactive, that calls a COM object, and the return from that call may have an HTML link to an intranet site. I need to be able to enable those links if possible.I know there's a few "complex" ways to do it, just seeing if anyone had a Q&D method off the top of their head...Thanks,-Jason

In the documentation for the doc_add_callback() function, callback type "completeness_check ", it says that "This callback can add reports to the event log". Any idea how that can be done? I've got some java classes that perform validations (that can't be done with the schema or schematron) that I'd like to run and have their results appended to the report that's shown after a completeness check.Thanks,-- Brian Jensenbjensen@bluelid.com