Arbortext

Hello everyone,   I have a manual made in DocBook 4.0 which consists in a root file with 10 files references (the chapters) each of which has 10 references (the sections). Total = 100 xml files.   The files have the characters saved as numeric references, and I need them as characters, which I can do by opening file by file and saving them with the right setting ("save as characters") in preferences, but...   Is there a way to save ALL 100 files in one go, without having to open them one by one?   Thanks in advance!   GABRIEL

Hi,   Is anyone here in the community using Arbortext editor 6.1 M070 with Windows 10?   Though it is not supported by PTC we had been running Arbortext in Windows 10 which was working fine without issues till the last Microsoft Windows 10 update. Since then, we face crashing issue without warning whenever we attempt to insert any element that requires opening an additional window without any error log. The Windows event viewer points to ucrtbase.dll which is related the Visual C++ component but we couldn't identify the exact cause of the issue. If we just uninstall the latest Visual C++ that got installed with this OS update, the issue still exists and the event viewer keeps pointing to ntdll.dll which is again a Windows core kernel.   Since the OS and version is not supported, we couldn't get much of TS help. If any one has run into such issues, please let me know if there is any fix.   Thanks in advance!!   Regards, Amar Karthi Arasan

Happy Holidays Arbortext community! Hope everyone is enjoying the season and hopefully some time off. We've been busy over here and are happy to announce that Arbortext 7.1 M040 is officially released and available for download!     Key Functional Highlights Publication Structures can now be displayed in the CMS Browser. Improvements to completeness checking for topics with DITA keyrefs. During a PDF publish, CGM, IDR, IDRZ, ISO, and ISOZ files are now published directly to PDF format. The Creo View installation has been updated to 5.0 F000. The Arbortext IsoView installation has been updated to 7.3 M090. Programmer’s manuals are searchable in Help Center.     SPRs Addressed 68     Documentation Release Notes SPR Fixes Installation Guide PE Release Notes PE Installation Guide ACL Reference Help Center     Download PTC Software download site    

Hi..i was wondering whether i can copy/paste text by default into its own para/p tag. Are there any settings for this ? Currently, when i paste text there is no tag  (unless pasted in an existing p tag) and the para/p tag has to be added individually. Thanks !

Key Functional Highlights Enhancements to APP Debugger Storing and restoring saved tabs, watch expressions, and breakpoints Handling of messages from APP in the debugger Additional toolbar options Simplification of the interface     Documentation Release Notes     Download PTC Software download site

Hi, I have a lot of files that I have exported from the AAD CSDB and I want to convert them in bulk from UTF-16 to UTF-8. I am familiar with the following ACL: save_as -encoding utf-8 myfilename.xml This works but is too laborious to repeat for every file. So, I have attempted to create a Windows Command Line batch file to open Arbortext Editor and execute the command on the files in a local directory using the -c switch. At the moment I get nothing out of it. The script does not open a dialog and ask to save the file. I would prefer to merely replace the current file. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how the script might be improved in order to process multiple files? :REM convert all files in directory from UTF-16 to UTF-8 ECHO ********************* ECHO CONVERT UTF16 TO UTF8 ECHO ********************* for %%f in (*.xml) do ( "C:\Program Files (x86)\PTC\Arbortext Editor\bin\x86\editor.exe" -c "save_as -encoding utf-8" %%f ) ECHO ********************* ECHO D O N E ECHO ************

Hello! Most recently, I used Isodraw 7.3 in the M040 build 6. An svgz export has worked flawlessly in this version. Now my system was changed to Windows 10 and with this came an Isodraw update to M080 build 6. Since this svgz export does not work correctly anymore. Hotspots created in Isodraw are displayed twice in the svgz, which means that the online spare parts catalog can no longer display the correct item numbers!   I attached screenshots to this problem in a Word document. About help and solution suggestions, I would be very grateful!: smileyvery-happy:   Best regards Mirko  

When this icon appears it disallows many functions within Creo Illustrate. Anyone know what it means?

Hi All,   I'm working on the customization of a stylesheet. When I try to publish my CMM, I find that the highlights position is after the title page. Which attribute in the FOSI I must modify to make sure that the highlights appear before the title page?   For your information, SGML tag concerned is transltr, the first element in mfmatr.   If you can show some FOSI examples, it will help a lot !   Thank you in advance.

Hi,   I have Arbortext Editor 7.1 without Styler.   When I try to open an *.xml document that uses the 40051-2C XML architecture, it opens with no problems.   When I try to open a *.dita document that uses the DITA XML architecture, it tries to open Arbortext with Styler and I get a message about no license.  If Arbortext is already open, the *.dita document opens with no problems.   I've looked through Windows file associations, environment variables, and the C:\flexlm directory, but have had no luck.  The documents use different DOCTYPE declarations (DITA versus USA-DOD) but I can't change that.   Do you know how I can fix this issue?   Thanks, Bob

Hi,   I've been using Arbortext 7.1 to author documents that use the 40051-2C XML architecture.    The latest version of the configuration files are acting strangely.  Apparently, you can insert any tag anywhere.  That is, when I click Insert > Markup for any tag, I get a big list of tags that starts with a.statement and ends with zip.   In some ways, this looks like a good thing, but it will probably cause problems somewhere.  I'm wondering if this was intentional, accidental, or maybe a problem at my end.  I've done a WinMerge comparison of the last two versions of the config files and can't find any clue to what's going on.   I access the config files from https://pubsweb.redstone.army.mil/DTD-FOSI/Webpages-60/ALLDTDs-AMCOM.html.  It's the 40051C 6.0 link at the top that's dated 11/11/18.   Thanks, Bob

Does Arbortext automatically assign any ids to elements within topics or can it be configured to do so?

I did not find any new information about creating formulas and other maths in Arbortext Editor. How is MathML supported in Arbortext Editor 7.1.? Is the Mathflow add-on still needed? And how is it installed?

Adepters:Does anyone know if it's possible to launch a video or a flash from a PDF built using PE direct-to-PDF? We're still at PE 5.3, but I couldn't find anything in the help about such support.Thanks,Dave HintzSiemens

We've just upgraded to Windows 10 from XP and also finally upgraded to Isodraw 7.3 (M060).We're having major issues with scaling. moving and rotating.Lines are being lost or added. See the example attached, left hand view is original, right hand view has just been copied and moved - same thing happens when scaling or rotating.It's not consistent, sometimes it's the ellipses that go wrong, sometimes it's lines.Another glitch we've come across so far, but not as serious:Using F5 (to split lines with ref points), the ref points are often either difficult to see or missing altogether.Does anyone else have these problems and if so, what can be done to correct them?

Hello PTC community,   Iam using IsoDraw 7.3 for my spare parts drawings, but somehow from one point it start to make mess in going from 3D to 2D.   We have not change anything in preference.   In attachement you can see what problem is and my setup.   Importing is by PVZ exported from WCH.   Can anyone help me please with this ?   Thank you, Jiri.

I know that one can use the message command at every line but I would like to step through code (especially if looking through code someone else has written.   Has anyone discovered an efficient and productive way to debug ACL scripts? Are there plans for a PTC IDE to be able to help with debugging?

Are abstract patterns supported by the Schematron implementation in Arbortext? I wrote the following simple abstract pattern, and it appears not to compile when running completeness check.     <pattern abstract="true" id="conditionsValidation"> <title>Element count validation</title> <rule context="$element[not(@conditions)]"> <report test="preceding-sibling::$element[not(@conditions)]">XisError: More than one <name/> found. Set the @condition attribute to ensure only one appears in output.</report> </rule> </pattern> <pattern is-a="conditionsValidation"> <param name="element" value="leadIn"/> </pattern>

Is the PDF version of the ACL reference all there is now? No HTML or any other version?

Hello Arbortext community-   Arbortext 7.0 M110 is now available for download.    Documentation Release Notes SPR Fixes     Download PTC Software download site   Also- just as a reminder- this is the last maintenance fix for this release stream. 7.0 is set to be retired at the end of this year- December 31, 2018. You can refer to the PTC Product Calendar for more dates/details. 

I have Iso Draw License and installed on our license server. We open FW 7788 but when we tried to connect Iso Draw, it said "Licenses request failed for feature ISODRAW". When else do we need to do?Thank you for your help

Whenever the Resource Manager is supposed to open, ArborText Editor crashes. This occurs whenever I attempt to open/create a dita map or view the resource manager manually.   I am receiving the following error: Unhandled exception at 0x0000000052BCFAFB (JavaAccessBridge-64.dll) in editor.exe: 0xC000041D: An unhandled exception was encountered during a user callback.   Does anyone know what could be causing this behavior?

Just wanted to make the community aware that we released APP 11.2 M030 and it's available for download from the PTC Support site. This was a mostly SPRs release. Let us know what you think and if you have questions!   PTC Software download site   Pushpinder

Hey everyone,   Can someone please answer my question.   I'm working on a .sgm file containing illustrations with hotspots (URI). When I publish my technical publication, I find that the hotspots are not activated. The hotspots are an APE issue.    FYI, we used ISODRAW to create the illustrations (.cgm)   Thank you in advance..      

Hi there, sorry if this has been asked before, Only starting out properly using Windchill and Arbortext Editor for work.    I had created a BookMap through Windchill and everything was working fine until a few days ago, when i try to open the BookMap in Windchill, through Arbortext Editor, it brings up an error message stating that i may not have correct access, even though i created it.   However, when i go to the WorkSpace folder in Windchill and open it there, it works.   Not sure why this is happening if anyone would have any ideas?   Thanks.