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hi all,i am using isodraw 7.1. when i export it to EPS format and open it in Adobe illustrator i wont be able to edit the callout numbers.i want to edit and check the font.

Hey everybody,I realize this isn't a supported configuration, but I'm attempting to use Arbortext 5.3/5.4 on Windows 7 in VMWare Fusion. Arbortext itself works fine (so far). The problem I'm running into is that when I launch Help Center, instead of getting the normal "Help Center Overview" page, I get a nice text page with null pointer exception output.Has anyone out there running Arbortext in this environment (or any virtualized environment) run into this problem?Thanks,James

I've just looked at the product timetable and it shows Isodraw at release 7.2 from May 12th 2011.I can't find anything else about it - anyone know what the enhancements/fixes are?

Has anyone else noticed that when you have a tabbox with enough tabpanels tospill to a third row, the row order is non-intuitive? Specifically, I amseeing the following behavior:If I have 9 tabpanels and the tabbox is big enough for two rows, I see:5 6 7 8 9(1) 2 3 4Where 1 is active. If I cycle through the tabpanels (ctrl-tab), aftertabpanel 4, tabpanel 5 displays as expected.If I have 9 tabpanels and the tabbox is only big enough for three rows, Isee:4 5 67 8 9(1) 2 3Where 1 is active. If I cycle through the tabpanels (ctrl-tab), after tabpanel 3, tabpanel 4 displays as expected by me, the programmer, however itis surprising to the users since normal Windows behavior would move from 3to 7.Is this a bug? A feature? Is it configurable?-- Paul Nagai

Hello Adepters,First of all, my apologies if I managed to post this thread on the forumalready. It looks like it won't work.I'm trying to use ACL to find and replace some numerically codedentities by their named entity.As an exemple : find " ", replace with " ".I tried the following things :find -es / /find -es / /But none work. Which mean I get the message 'String not found'.The only thing I could manage was to cut and paste the caracter shown inmy edit window to the command line.But I'm unable to do the same thing in my ACL file, because when I pastethat caracter in a text editor, I end with an '?'Any input or idea on how to handle those entity with ACL is welcome.Thanks and regards.Christophe LefebvreLexisNexis France

It seems that if you have a fixed license, multiple interfaces on yourcomputer (Wired and Wireless), and you switch between them, the FlexLM willtell you that your software isn't licensed and it won't open. Your licensefile is tied to one interface --- that must be "top priority" (active) inorder for your license file to authorize use of the software.PTC has a work around that requires you to go into the registry and monkeyaround forcing one of the interfaces to always be "top priority", ratherthan getting Acresso to fix the bug in FlexLM. It should be querying all theinterfaces on the machine, not just the "top priorty" one.FYI,Liz

Hello all, I have a question regarding the document fragment created by Arbortextwhen documents are included as larger documents as file entities. We have a series of manuals that are being created by combining ATApageblocks into a larger document structure using file entities.Usually the authors don't author directly from the larger document andedit the individual pageblocks, but these are smaller books (20-30pageblocks) and part of a project for bringing some legacy manualscurrent. Anyway, they are using the large document to do find/replace against allthe pageblocks. Then they are opening individual pageblocks to makeediting changes specific to those pageblocks. When the find/replaceroutine locates and replaces content in a pageblock, the documentfragment kicks in, commenting out the DOCTYPE declaration. So if thispageblock is opened individually, the context checking is turned off,since there's no DOCTYPE declaration and no root element declaration. Is there a way to "toggle" this

I am trying to grab the value of an environment variable (one set byanother application) in an ACL script placed in the init directory.However, it keeps telling me that the $ENV["MY_VAR"] package doesn'texist. Is $main the last package to load? Is it loading after the initdirectory is read? Thanks, -Jason

Hi,Is it possible to use the benefits of XML:TM and XLIFF with Arbortext Editor?How do you keep track of modified content to be sent to translation services?How do you upload the translated topics in Windchill?Below there is a summary of what I find interesting about these technologiesLocalizationI. Minimize the cost of translation services by:A. avoiding to translate parts of a document previously translated and not modifiedB. suggesting possible translations with various degrees of confidence and thus different costC. obtain translation information from the translation services in order to satisfy the first entry of this list and making less painful switching translation agencyII. xml:tmEmbedding translation memories and hints into the xml document itselfhttp://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/01/07/xmltm.html A. author memory (getting translations from the same document)1. ICE, In Context exact matches or "perfect matching"Same segment in same context. Usually it means that the segment has al

For the past 5 or so years, we've been using a docked XUI control set withinArbortext to facilitate content-aware authoring tools. This has worked outpretty well, and at the time we didn't want to spend too much time creatinga GUI, so XUI did the trick.Recently, however, we've been making some changes to our back-end contentmanagement, which has led me to put all CMS-specific code up on a servicelayer, with simple RESTful calls being made from Arbortext. Because ofthis, I'm now using Netbeans, and have thought of making some changes to theGUI.So... I guess my question is: Has anyone had success/experience docking aJava Swing control within a XUI panel? Back when XUI was pretty new, I hadtried using some ActiveX embedding, but performance (and writing ActiveX ingeneral) were less than optimal.Even our current XUI controls are written directly in Java, usingDocument.createElement() type methods (plenty of examples up on adepters.org),so programmatically, it shouldn't be much of a change.

Have you successfully run Arbortext Editor 5.3 m110 and Documentum/WDKAdapter on 64bit Windows Server 2003? Unsuccessfully?The compatibility matrix doesn't list this as compatible (and I have a callopen to ask PTC to confirm one way or the other), but I'm wondering ifanyone has ever run or tried to run this combination of versions?-- Paul Nagai

I have problems in the installation of Isodraw 6, I tried to download the latest drivers from safenet, no success, none of them recognise the dongle. I have Windows Vista home basic, with 250GBRAM, hard drive. I have seen one person had this problem, and was suggested to alter the BIOS settings. Regards Nick Berardo

I put a axdocbook.acl file in the axdocbook doctype directory and it failed again. Then I realized, after talking to Brandon Ibach, that I shouldn't be using doctype.acl file, I should use instance .acl. That seems to work.Previously we were using a pubrc file, which has been decremented in Arbortext 6. I mistakenly chose the wrong filename.

Those of you going to the planetPTC is there a calendar of sessions. I onlysee a listing, but not in calendar form. Is there one and I am missing it?Or should I create it.d

I am using IsoDraw 7.1, I am creating Hotspots in my graphics. We import our graphics into SGML files. We need to have the ID for the hotspot to be a number, when I try to edit the ID in the object info dialog box it will only allow me to make changes to a number if I proceed the number with an underscore. It appears that it wants a text string in that block. Is there a way to allow a number to be inserted into the ID block without the underscore?Also I have found that in the object info dialog box for the hotspots I see a selection "$datastring", in this datastring there is a location reference to x1,y1, x2 y2. I am having a problem in figuring out where these x,y numbers reference locations are. Does anyone have any idea what these x,y coordinates reference?Thanks for any and all helpKeith

Adepters:We had to rebuild our PDF server due to some OS problems and subsequently had to return our license and request a new one (the server code changed after the rebuild). I've opened a serious call with PTC as after I turned in the old license, it won't give me a new license. Furthermore, it appears from their list that it would be giving me a floating license, rather than a fixed license. We've always used a fixed license, but I can't get the license server to give me any kind of license.Anyone else had problems getting a license recently? We're using PE 5.3 M190. So far I haven't heard a peep from PTC in regards to my open case.Dave HintzSiemens

S1000D issue 4.0 introduced the learning Capability Package (CP) module. The general idea was to create a method for collecting CSDB objects into an single document for transfer to another system for creating SCORM compliant training material. The S1000D CP schema contains structures for including Single Content Objects (SCOs), which is a re-usable object used in SCORM for containing things like questions. However, since the SCO is embedded in the issue 4.1 CP, they are not reuseable in S1000D.Issue 4.1 is rectifying the SCO reuse issue by introducing a new SCO module and removing the structures from the CP. The CP will reference SCO objects. However, the new CP, in common with the 4.0 CP, does not support things like role-up rules, sequencing and objectives that are inherent to a SCORM CP.Although S1000D's intention does not require the need to create a fully SCORM compliant CP, how useful do people think the S1000D CP will be for developing training material given the lack of these f

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Hi, all...Is there a way to tell Arbortext 5.4 to insert relative paths instead of absolute paths into the href when inserting an image into a DITA topic?ThanksSteve FogelOracle Corporation

Does anyone know how to get to the Java Console in Arbortext 6? Helpimplies that Tools->Java Console would not be present if "liteui" wasenabled, but should show otherwise. Given that other menu items that wouldalso be disabled with liteui are present, and that liteui="off" in advancedpreferences, I don't see any reason why it shouldn't appear.thanks,keith

Hello all! I am a newbie to the Arbortext/IsoDraw environment, still in training. I have a question about graphics/images and what the industrybest practices are for handling sizing and resolution. Do you create one file and let the publisher DTD handle this or is this handled with style sheets? Or do you create a file for each output (web vs print)and give it an audience attribute? Is vector vs raster prefered? Where can I get information on this subject? This is a big gray area for me and since we are just starting to move to this platform, I want to make sureI'm on the right path. Any advice is appreciated.

Am trying to rotate an illustration in Isodraw with callouts so that I can import to Arbortext Editor.The problem is that although the illustraion is easily rotated the callout numbers remain the same. I could save the illustration in another format but then I will lose the intelligence in the callouts.

Hi, i just installed Arobortext Publishing Engine5.4 and i want to convert the xml files into PDF using Adobe distiller.I installed the Acrobat Distiller 6.0 and configured the Postscript Printer.i test the PDF test on Publishing Engine home page, but it gives me error. Please see the attached error screen shot.I need help on how to resolve this issue.

I'm not sure how much anyone can do to help me on this one. I came in from running some errands this afternoon. Sat down to do some more work and started up Epic. Prior to leaving, everything had worked just fine. I have a set of custom scripts that I run on start up. The first one is working. After that, I'm still trying to figure out what happened.Anyway, when I select the document type I want to work with (part of my customization). Epic does one of two things. It either totally shuts down, no error messages, NOTHING, just shuts down; OR it will show a message in the message line saying 'missing argument'. I've run these scripts for well over five years. I have occasionally enhanced the functionality, but all in all the basic precept has remained unchanged. I run the scripts from a network drive (mapped to the same drive letter) and I am having this problem on the two computers that have Epic. I am going to copy my backup files over just to see if something happened to the network d

Hello everyone,I have a very simple XUI dialog that is launched from ACL that consists of a dropdown control, a text field, an OK button and a Cancel button. When the user clicks the OK button, I need to perform the following tasks:call a web service using the two values identified by the usergrab the body of the web response and return it to the ACL module that launched the XUI dialogI assume the tasks shown above can be performed from javascript associated with the OK button. Has anyone done this before and can you offer any suggestions? I looked at the AOM javadoc and do not see any HTTP classes listed.Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.Regards,Tom