Arbortext

Check out my latest blog entry on deciding whether to customize an Arbortext implementation: http://www.terraxml.com/community/blog/bid/243609/Arbortext-To-Customize-or-Not-To-Customize

Dear friends,I have some pro-E Assembly, when i was open the assembly in Isodraw 7.1 that was not set Isometric view 30/30. How can i fit correrct view.Thanks

Hi,I want the title of my root element to be used to build a top level "HelpTopic" in my .CHM. Currently all of the chapters are listed at the toplevel as siblings. I'd like them to be children of the root element.I have set HTML Chunking = yes for the root but that's not doing it.Does anyone know how to do that?-- Paul Nagai

Greeting,Is there anyway to generate PDF document from XSL-FO file like Apache FOP (xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/)? I am currently evaluating between between Apache FOP and Windchill (which contains Arbortext I assume?). Apache FOP is may not in the approved product list, but Windchill is so I am evaluating to see if I can convert XLS-FO to PDF from command like like Apache FOP (that is fop.bat foo.fo foo.pdf).Thanks.

Hi, all...Our upgraded Arbortext 6.0 M050 editor is now inserting thexmlns:atgra attribute into all <link> and <xref> elements, and the DITA OT errors out on it saying that it must be defined. We're using vanilla out-of-the-box DITA topics, and no customizations to AT, the DTDs, or the OT (yet).How do we prevent AT from adding this attribute, or what do we have to do to get the OT to accept it? Prefer eliminating it.ThanksSteve Fogel, Information Architect, Oracle Database, Oracle Corporation

I'm using Arbortext for DITA and, by and large, I'm really satisfied, but some of the pieces don't work quite right for my workflow. For example, some of the check completeness messages warn the writers of things that aren't, for us, problems.If I copy the entire com.arbortext.dita application into my own custom directory so I can customize it, do I need to delete the default one that comes with Arbortext? Steve

Hi,Just ran across a note in help indicating that I should contact services toconfigure PE to publish HTML Help if I'm using a doctype other thanaxdocbook. Uh, seriously? Has anyone got the info on what config changesare required to enable a doctype to produce HTML Help?I get a .chm however it's tiny and blank (although the title is correct).-- Paul Nagai

In the arbortext styler 6.0 I want to give all the headers rows in a table a background color, but I dont know how. I've have tried everything. In the custom tables its no problem to give the header row a background color, however its not a custom table, so that doesnt work. I also tried this in FOSI and APP, but with no luck. Can somenone help me?

I need to take a document that has Arbortext change tracking tags (e.g. atict:add) and convert it to one that has the Arbortext PIs (e.g. <?Pub tag add?>). Is there a supported way to do that or does anyone have an xslt?Thanks,Jeff

Has anyone seen this? When I queue a large document, I might see thefollowing types of errors (this is just a subset). I think it is a Windowsmemory related thing, or a timing thing, as it is not consistent and seemsto only happen on large documents. I think they are coming from menucustomizations I set with a load menu hook.I tried reporting window_get(current_window(),"title")) to see if I couldisolate the Queued Transaction window but that window title never displays.Only the title of the document open in the main window.[A11204] No menu matched: $DeleteMarkupLabel[A11204] No menu matched: .Edit.[A11204] No menu matched: .Edit.Edit Profiles.[A11204] No menu matched: .Edit.XUI.[A11204] No menu matched: .Find.[A11204] No menu matched: .Insert.[A11204] No menu matched: Help[A11204] No menu matched: Help.[A11204] No menu matched: Insert.Link[A11204] No menu matched: Insert.Rollup Link.-- Paul Nagai

Dear Experts,I'm a stylesheet programmer. One of my customers is now moving to DITA and they author DITA bookmap/topic using Arbortext editor.They author DITA instances and they want to format them using DITA Open Toolkit.Here is my question.They need the following mainbooktitle element for output it to the book cover.<mainbooktitle>MaintenanceManual</mainbooktitle>or<mainbooktitle>Maintenance
Manual</mainbooktitle>However they say that Arbortext editor does not allow inserting LF codes into element text.Is there any way to insert LF codes into the text node via Arbortext Editor?Any suggestions are welcome.Regards,Toshihiko Makita

Hi!I was wondering if there's a way in order to call an ACL file from a XUI button. I was thinking that maybe it could be possible through source command, however I have tried and nothing happens =( So, please if anybody knows a way to solve this issue I really appreciate your help; also I'm trying to execute this task through javascript and Acl.eval I'm just thinking that maybe I'm wrong with that, so thanks again for your support.Best Regards,Paulette

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I've a macro that works through all layers in an illustration (making each one active as it goes along).I want to make it activate the original layer at the end of the macro (i.e. the one that was active before the macro was run).I can't find a way to do this.Anyone know how check which layer is currently active in a macro?

Hello!Is it possible to get a special license for Arbortext Editor plugin developers? Perhaps, with limited functional.14 days trial is not enough.

We draw a lot of cables and many of them are of the ribbed type (see attached sketch)If the cables are straight, we can just copy the ribbing no problem.But ours are nearly all curved, and the ribbing has to follow the curve, so we end up either not adding them at all, or spending lots of time copying the ribs and rotating them roughly to fit the new positions. It never looks perfect this way.I've long wanted to do a macro to make adding ribbing easier but can't find a way to make it work.The way I would have done the macro it is to select the centre line of the curve, have the macro check the line at fixed intervals, working out the angle of the line at each point, copying the ribs from the previous positions (as you don't seem to be able to draw arcs in Isodraw) moving and rotating them to each new angle.I can't find any way to work out the angle of a polyline or bezier at any given point along it's length so don't know if this way is possible.I wonder if anyone else has any ideas I

I've a macro that needs to rotate an item depending on whether the thick or thin part of an ellipse has been picked.But I can't find a way to work this out.I thought of useing activeDoc.firstSelectedElement.ellipse.segments[1].pen but when you select an ellipse, segment 1 is always the thicker segment, no matter if you select on the first or second segment.Is there a way to do it using firstSelectEdelement?

Hi allI am trying to remove the tracking information from the XML using the ACL scripting, I tried to use the 'xpath_nodeset' function to find the atict:elements with the correct XPath however it looks like the 'atict:' elements are somehow hidden. I also tried to use 'set changetrackingmarkers=full' to show the tracking elements however I was still not able to get the oid of the atict:elements with the 'xpath_nodeset' to be able to remove it.Basically, I want to remove 'atict:info' and 'atict:user' after checking the attribute '@tracking' from 'info' element, if it is set to 'off' and there is no other atict:element (except for the 'info' and 'user') then both info and user elements should be removed from the XML. I hope it makes sense...As always any help with this would be much appreciated! 😉ThanksMarcin

Hiya,Has anyone resolved an issue where the Documentum WDK adapter can't seeJava? I have Editor 6.0 m010 with the WDK Adapter. IE8 is has Java 6_0_33and works fine with Webtop (well, not fine, I had to jiggle the handle abit ... the Java "addon" was present but not quite "right" ... I'm not 100%sure what I did that enabled it within IE8 but it works now).I can navigate in the WDK Adapter, but checkout or anything that fires offthe content transfer services fails. I can right-click within the Adapter,select All Accelerators > Manage Accelerators and then change the Add-onTypes to Toolbars and Extensions (which is where Java shows up) but I donot see Java in the list. It's not present. In "plain" Internet Explorer(now that I've jiggled the handle) it displays Java when I look at Toolbarsand Extensions.I have closed/re-opened Editor. I guess I'll try rebooting, but I don'tthink that's it. I'm on Windows 7.Am I missing something obvious?-- Paul Nagai

It has been too long since I last algrouped and the geometry has fallen outof my head. Somewhere I remember a drawing that depicted what each settingcontrolled ... I need to get that done as a tattoo on the back of one of myhands .... If I can find it.Anyhow, I've got a three column algroup. I can get the first two columns todisplay correctly. Or I can get the last two to display correctly.(Correctly means they appear on the same line.)Which measurement do I need to adjust below to get the third group to notbreak to a new line? I've been adjusting the leftind for the third setwhich displays task.txt.<att><charsubset><indent leftind="-1in" rightind="6in" firstln="-1in"/"><algroup refpoint="first"/"><usetext source="actor.txt" placemnt="after"><subchars><indent leftind="-1in" rightind="6in" firstln="-1in"/"><quadding quad="left"/"><textbrk startln="0" endln="0"/"><algroup refpoint="first"/"></subchars></usetext></

Available for immediate downloading from PTC's support site is the Arbortext 5.4 M150 release.If you want to know all the details about this maintenance release, please check out the release notes<.">https://www.ptc.com/view?im_dbkey=150882>. If you have any questions about the release schedule, please reference the PTC Product Calendar at:PTC.com<">http://www.ptc.com>

Hi folks-- I'm trying to set something up using a page set where the content flowonly appears on the right hand pages, but I need static content toappear on the left pages. When I try to set this up in Styler, it almostworks, except that it gives me a warning if I try to have a left page inmy page set that doesn't contain a "main content flow" region. If I adda very small main content flow region (so it exists but is too small tocontain any actual content), I don't get the error, but the formatterstops on that page and I don't get anything that comes after. The onlyway I can get the document to format is to include some actual contentflow on each page (both right and left), which is not what I want. What I want is something like this: with this content: A, B, C1, 2, 3Do, Re, MiYou and me I want output to look something like this (where each "box" represents apage):

Hi folks-- I have a new blog post up on the TerraXML web site about translatinggenerated text in Styler stylesheets. Check it out:

Hi folks--If you are interested in translation issues, check out my latest blog post on translated generated text in Styler: http://www.terraxml.com/community/blog/bid/239759/How-to-Localize-Text-in-Arbortext-Styler--Clay

Our 3rd Arbortext APP World international users' meeting will be held on the 20th and 21st of November 2012 in Cologne, Germany. The event this year is being held in conjunction with the German community users meeting (APP-Anwendertreffen now in it's 19th year) in parallel English and German language tracks and promises to be the largest ever international APP/3B2 community meeting.Registration for the event in now open!For further details please visitwww.tformat.com/appworld/RegardsChris WesternMD, tformat ltd.-----------------------Event organisers and hostswww.tformat.com & www.datacopy.de