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We've had this discussion in this group before about how pretty much nothing S1000D is free even if it is a government spec.The question for today: is there a simple, free way to create a sample, proof-of-concept book that will run in a browser - preferably over the internet?The files themselves are still XML In Arbortext - that hasn't changed. We've worked with the Trilogi people - pretty, but NOT simple...and the proof of concept is neither cheap nor fast. We should have Eagle installed sooner or later - we've had the license for a couple of years from what I hear. But getting that dang first sample manual up on a screen...!!!Thanks,John T. Jarrett CDTSenior Tech Writer, Integrated Logistics Support, Land & Armaments/Global Tactical SystemsT 832.673.2147 | M 832.363.7234 | F 832.673.2376 | x1147 | -<">mailto:->BAE Systems, 5000 I-10 West, Sealy, Texas USA 77474www.baesystems.com

Hello Adepters,I'm trying to convert an arbitrary string of markup into a DocumentFragment. The only method I know of to do that is insertParsedString(), with is a method on Range objects.Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out how to attach a range to a fragment and make it work right. I've tried a few variations on the following theme:var d = Application.activeDocument;var f = d.createDocumentFragment();var r = f.getOwnerDocument().createRange();r.selectNodeContents(f);r.insertParsedString("test");Doing that, I get a "paste would make in the pasted region out of context." I've also tried using the setStart() and setEnd() methods on range to no avail.Does anyone have any advice?Thanks,James

Hi,This may be a familiar topic as I have raised it a couple of times. The mostrecent was in August, I think, as I was trying to include profilingattributes and values in a FOSI's semantic table. Thanks to an off-listsuggestion from Brandon and an on-list one from Clay, I have managed to makethis work if composition is conducted locally. I have not been able to do iton Publishing Engine yet. I'm hoping someone can stand on my shoulders andsee over the top.To do this local by way of Print Composed you need three components(presented in reverse order, processing-wise):1) Your FOSI or, presumably, Styler code. Here is my FOSI attribute test:<att><fillval attname="yourpackage::getprof" attloc="system-func"<br"/>fillcat="savetext" fillchar="conrule"><charsubset><savetext textid="gotprof.txt"><usetext source="\asdf" \,gotprof.txt,!<newline="/>!"placemnt="before"></usetext></charsubset></att>Which references:2) Your system-func c

Hi All!If you¹re a member of the PTC Users Arbortext Technical Committee, youshould have received an Outlook announcement from me. We have planned twomorning sessions, Feb 15 and 16, through a web meeting.Here is the agenda:AGENDA1) Arbortext Business Unit Update ­ covers how PTC thinks of Arbortextfrom the business standpoint (30 mins)2) Arbortext Roadmap: Process and Product a. Service Information Solution (SIS) Overview (45 mins) b. Demo ­ SIS (30 mins) c. Demo ­ Galaxy (Technical Illustration tool) (30 mins)3) Upcoming releases: What¹s new (30 mins)4) Futures: (30 mins) a. Review / Preview5) DITA 1.2 (30 mins)6) Customer topics/Presentations (TBD) 2-3 at 30 mins eachYou must be an official member of the Arbortext TC to attend. If you are,please be certain to send me an Outlook confirmation. If you are not, Iinvite you to become a member through the PTC Users website. Find the TC taband click on Arbortext TC to join. You must use an official corporate emailaddress and complete the f

Hi, So, I was able to modify the sample script (e3script.bat, e3samples.jar, e3client.jar) to publish to the PE Server using the default stylesheet, but when I try and use our custom FOSI, the server returns the 500 error. I've tried to use all sorts of paths--to no avail Thanks! Alex ============================================================== Here's my text file with the parameters that the e3script.bat file reads: # Setup our policies (see the javadoc for more information).setpolicy DELETE_PARTIAL_FILES_POLICY falsesetpolicy LOG_THREAD_PREFIX_POLICY truesetpolicy LOG_TIME_DATE_PREFIX_POLICY truee3 <u>http://Config8518VM0:8080/e3/servlet/e3</u>basedir .java com.arbortext.e3.E3AppTest convert PDF_FORMATconvert_set FOSI_PARAMETER Wide_D6_English.fosconvert_set INPUT_FORMAT_PARAMETER XML_FORMATconvert_set OUTPUT_FORMAT_PARAMETER PDF_FORMATpost <u>\\Plefilesvr01\techpubs\DropOff\AlexSato\temp\build-test\src\deployment_guide.xml</u> <u>\\Plefilesvr01\techpu

anyone know how to do this off-hand? I honestly haven't looked hard yet, sodon't you go look hard. BUT if you've just done it or something similar andcan throw me a codelet or point me in the right direction ... that'd be verycool.I want to be able to:Do this thing.Do that thing.Launch the profiling dialog and wait for the author to profile.Then move on to the next thing.And the next.And so on.But the profiling dialog (epic_profiling::update_element_profile()) isn'tmodal. "Then move on to the next thing." proceeds without waiting for theprofiling dialog to close.-- Paul Nagai

Hello all, I am working on upgrading our Arbortext software from 5.3 M040 to 5.4early this year. I am trying to get a general feel for backwards compatibility andcomposition issues with the various maintenance. When I upgraded from 5.1F to 5.3 M040, it took a few M0X0 tries to findone that resolved outstanding issues and contained a minimal amount ofnew "issues" that I had to address, so I thought maybe some duediligence amongst the user community might help me avoid some of thatthis time down the road. Some details: We use in-house developed SGML and XML document types based on ATA100. We still use FOSI for all hard copy composition. This includes usingFOSI userules and ACL funcs to generate LOEP/TOC data. We wrote our ownprocess applications for electronic distribution. We still use complex floats for images and repeating table titles acrosspage boundaries. We use algroup quite often for generated tabular data. We use PE server with Adobe Distiller server, but want to move to theDire

Anyone out there had experience of touch screen hyper-linking to sub-assemblies using graphics (not callouts) embedded within an IETP.The native software for the graphics is IsoDraw 7.1 CAD Process exported as cgms?Trilogi is the viewer for the IETP.Thanks for your time.Nick

Hello,I have a strange problem that I didnt think I would encounter. I am using the Batch Process with a Macro to convert files. One of the things in this macro is to change the active document name to the contents of a variable:activeDoc.name = strICNUnfortunately when running the macro using the batch process it doesnt change the name - it keeps the original file name and seems to ignore this command. If I run the Macro within Isodraw it then changes it, and I can then save this manually - however I would prefer to avoid doing this 250 times.The only thing I can think of is that when using the batch process the file is not an ''active' document so the command will not work (just guessing here), if this is the case how do I change the file name when using the batch process? or is their a command that changes the filename whether it is active or not?Many thanks for your assistance.Alan

Have anyone investigated the use of XAML code into Arbortext to create graphics?My SW programmers use XAML, and it would be really useful if we could share the source code.....

Hi,Could anybody help me doing Arbortext and windchill integration using Object->ConnectI used content manager guide to configure the PTC server. No Success.Thanks in advance,Manisha.

Is it possible to transform an existing xml document using a custom stylesheet to dita xml using the Compose Using XSL option?The effort is merely to get the text into the dita framework and then re-write, re-structure without all the cut and paste.I get an error that states "Stylesheet "location/name" is not valid for Compose Using XSL.Stylesheet type: XSLUses: XML"Is there a config file that needs to be altered/created? Will Arbortext allow transforming one XML to another?

I write lots of macros to speed up drawing tasks in Isodraw and they fall into 3 useage categories.Ones that are used all the timeOnes that are used a few times a weekOnes that are used infrequently for specialist jobs.Toolbars seem to be the only way for us to have macros easily accessible because the drop down Macros menu only lists the first 15 macros and they are only by macro name, no icons to give further clues to what they are for. I'd like to have all macros on toolbars, but it would get rather cluttered with all of them visible at once.Is there a way that a macro can hide and show our custom toolbars? I'd like to be able to hide and show toolbars without having to go through the Window menu. The hide function works for the palette windows, but not the toolbars. Is there any other way?Please PTC can you add into IML a facility to create menu windows!

Hi All,I am very new to this community. I want to write a java class. Through which I want to connect to the Arbortext Publishing engine. and then trying to convert my xml file to pdf.....Can anybody help me how can i do this one???????Thanks,Sunita Choudhury

I've been testing an ACL script that uses the function inside_tag(). Itseems to have a bug. If I test for an element name that has a 'dot' in thename (e.g., <dtd.frag>) it will not recognize when it is inside the tag.I've tested this with a couple of different element names both in the scriptand from the command line and get the same result which is a failure. Has anyone else found this to be true? And if so does anyone have a workaround. Many thanks. Lynn

Hi All,I know nothing about Arbortext.....but we have a need at my company to create catalogs for our product lines (both web based catalogs and print catalogs). We currently manage this catalog using autocad. A typical catalog will have a 2d drawing layout page showing some high level dimensions and a table showing all the variations on those dimensions. NOTE: the drawing does not need to be updated in the catalog ever. The next catalog page has a text based list of options for this family of product (so each product family has two pages in the catalog).Our requirements are:Must have rev control on each catalog pageMust be able to generate a full catalog (combining all pages) easily and in a variety of formats (HTML, PDF, etc.)Must be able to include nice flashy images, colors, etc. like a publishing software would do.Must come with an editor or page maker tool that non-technical people can use to create catalog pagesMust be easy to use and implementMy question is......is Arbortext th

I want to do a macro that moves the start point of a callout but I can't find a function to do this.I'm assuming the callout is already selected and just want to find the start point of the callout line (i.e. the bit that points to something on the drawing, not the text end).I'm hoping that there is something similar to the line end point property (e.g. myelem.line.startPoint.x) but for callouts - I can't find it though.

Hey everybody,Let's say I do the following in Arbortext: var document = Application.activeDocument; var a = document.getElementById("stuff"); var b = document.getElementById("stuff");So both a and b point to the same DOM element. Now, if I check their equality: a == bI get "false." Why is that? Shouldn't both variables contain references to the same object, and therefore be equal? Is there a simple way to check for element equality in javascript?Note that when I do the same thing in a web browser, I get "true," like I expect.Thanks,James

Has anyone seen a wrapping issue in tables in 5.4? We're upgrading a customer from 5.3 and we're getting wrapping in tables in 5.4. We've tried a couple build of 5.4 and get the same result.So far, we can't find a good reason for the wrapping in FOSI. Anyone else seeing anything like this in 5.4?

I noticed that some arbortext supplied acl's do not exist anymore or are renamed.I have to support some applications that make use of the packages/h_maint.acl and we want to upgrade to 5.4. that file does not exist anymore in version 5.4eg. packages/H_define.acl exists from version 4.1.1 till 5.3, but does not exist anymore in 5.4I think it has been renamed to packages/h.aclCan someone confirm this and maybe point out if there are important differences?. thxLeo Put<h2></h2>

Hello,I wish to take a string and make some modificiation. I have found the 'String Functions' section but it has been no help.Problem 1:I have a text element with the following text inside:85x286x2087x1488x889x1090x109192x29394 Now I need these to be seperate text elements roughly in the same position...I am finding the string functions limited and I am unsure how to do this inside Isodraw can anyone help?Problem 2:I have the following text element:13x2I need to seperate the 13 and the x2 into their own elements, I have tried using the FIND (source, search, start) as explained in the 'String Functions' section to always find the X and then I can hopefully start to remove the X and text after the X into another text element but unfortunately my isodraw crashes when I use FIND() in conjunction with the MESSAGE function. If I use the FIND() on its own Isodraw returns the error: "Unknown Macro Command"MACRO Test DEFINE str AS string str = "13x4" MESSAGE "Result: " + find(str, x, 1)END MAC

Is it true that in order to link to a PDF named destination, you need Arbortext Publishing Engine ?ie: If I want toset up an external link to a named destination in the target PDF this can only be achievedwhen composing to PDF via the Publishing Engine ? (and not simply via Adobe Acrobat)Regards,Andy

Heh, I was just typing up a very similar response, but Liz had fasterfingers than me. 🙂BTW, the Resolved for Edit document is not a flattened document, butimports the individual topics by reference, so the changes you make willappear in the individual topic files. Which is just what you want, Ithink.--Clay

Hi Adepters,I have a bit of a XUI problem. While I can capture the DOMActivate event on a <listbox/>, I can't do the same for any of its <listitem/> children. In other words, this works, setting target to the label of the selected listitem:<listbox> <script ev:event="DOMActivate" id="hitsscript" type="text/javascript"> target = Application.event.target.getAttribute("value"); </script> ...</listbox>But any listener attached to a <listitem/> using listitem.addEventListener("DOMActivate", listener, false) never fires. The reason I need to do this is that I'm creating a listbox where the labels are not guaranteed to be unique. So instead of acting on listitem/@label, I want to act on listitem/@appdata, which as far as I can tell, isn't accessible from the listbox domactivate event. Also, listitem/@selected never gets set to "true," so I can't find the selected listitem that way, either.Does anyone have any pointers?Thanks,James

I have several fonts recently installed that contain nothing but special symbols. All display in the "Insert Symbol" interface window, but only some display in the editor window after you click "insert". All fontsare OpenType with Postscript outlines. Any insite as to why this is happeningwould be GREATLY appreciated.