Arbortext

Hi,While opening isodraw we will have the standard pens in the Pen dialog box. But when i try to open Isodraw in my system, it has one more Pen which was created by some other user. Kindly guide me how to open the default new Isodraw file without other pens?. I think we have to touch the preferences file. Thanks for your cooperation in advance.

In my ditamap I have pressed enter and created a chapter. In a new topic I want to create a cross reference to go and see this chapter. How do I do it as everything I have cross referenced so far has been a standalone topic. I do not see the chapter heading in my resource manger screen.Bryon

FYI - IsoDraw 7.1 will crash when opening a CGM that was exported out of Team Center Visualization Mockup 2007 (64 bit). VisMockup can export CGM versions 1, 3, and 4. All versions will crash IsoDraw.The crashes only happen when the Objects window is displayed. If the Objects window is turned off before opening the CGM, the CGM will open fine.Attached is a sample CGM that causes this problem.Thanks

Can this be done?I'm a keymapper-and-rememberer. A colleague is toolbar-clicker-and-keep-brain-uncluttereder. I have some macros I'd like to share as toolbar buttons. Can this be done? I've created a new toolbar by copying the file that defines the original ones to the custom/dialogs directory on Windows. However, I can't seem to find something to put in command= that will directly run one macro, as opposed to bringing up the dialog that lets you choose a macro to run.Am I on the right track? What else do I need to do?Or is there another way of mapping macros to new buttons in a new toolbar, that I should be using instead?Thanks in advance

Here's an odd one.We have noticed that occasionally tables will break within a cell despitehaving deepcontentsplitting = off. The row splitting will only happen on afirst run of the content. PDFs run a second (or any subsequent) time, donot exhibit the cell break. This *seems* to be true across users meaning ifMary runs the PDF and generates the bad break, then she runs it again or ifJohn or someone else runs it ... the break does not occur.Yeah, I know it's just past 4:20 Pacific but believe me, I made otherpeople confirm this very, very strange behavior before I was willing totalk about it in public. Next week, I'll be presenting on spontaneous humancombustion.So ... has anyone noticed this in 6.0 m010 (or anything newer that 5.3 m110?Intermittent is bad enough, but with a one-time-incident per file, I can'teven imagine how to debug this.-- Paul Nagai

Ok, so I have a series of small output docs (three elements within a wrapper, all wrapped in a root element) that I print in tabulated form.I have these values aggregating into a savetext that eventually outputs a table as part of a usetext at the end of the document.Since upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4, I have come to find that if the amount of content is more than a page-full, my table no longer breaks to another page (runs through the footer and throws my favorite error, page overset fault).Has anyone else had this issue? Any clues here?I have checked all the e-i-cs for table markup, for the document elements themselves, and the pseudo-element used to generate the text, and I have no explicit keeps set anywhere. I'm just at a loss as to what might have happened. I know I'm not the only one building tables in gentext, so perhaps someone else has seen something?Thanks,-Jason

Available for immediate downloading from PTC's support site is the Arbortext 5.4 M140 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=142378>. If you have any questions about the release schedule, please reference the PTC Product Calendar at:PTC.com<">http://www.ptc.com>

Hi,We are in a process of migrating Arbbortext editor from 5.1 to 6.0 version. In Epic Editor 5.1 after editing the document if we do check-in/cancel check out back to the Documentum repository, XML document/manual automatically disappearing from editor. But in Arbortext Editor 6.0 we are missing this fuctiobality, the manual/document still available in editor after performing check-in/cancel check out operation successfully. As a result one copy of the document/manual still remain in Checkout location. Do we need to change/modify any configuartions in editor to disappear the manual from Editor once if Checkin/cancel check out operation is done..

Hi Experts,We are facing issue while composing a PDF file from XML manual and we are able to compose PDF file at chapter level but as a whole manual we are not able to compose PDF. Please assist me on this.Please find the attached file for the composer log.

Hello! I'd like to create an installer for my plugin for Arbortext Editor. How can I detect installed Arbortext Editor versions?For example, what keys should be considered in Registry?

Long story: Nah, you don't want to hear it.Short story:I'm trying to create an ID/IDREF link in FOSI.I have defined my link element in the DTD with an attribute to store thetarget element's ID value as an IDREF attribute.I have placed that element in the appropriate locations within the contentmodel.I have added that element to the DCF as a link (both as primary="yes" andas primary="no" ... not at the same time, of course).I have copied FOSI code working in 5.3 and updated it to reflect thiselement's name.But my links don't "fire." I get all the right text, except for the elementnumber, but the text is not a link.For example, my output should be: Table 1A Table title goes hereAnd it should be clickable in the PDF.Instead I get: Table XXX-1234 Table title goes here.And it is not clickable.Wrinkle-time: The element is namespaced. So it is: xxxx:linkelementname. Ihave placed the namespace declaration in the DTD.What am I forgetting?! Or is this not possible with a namespaced element?-- Pa

I'm using Arbortext 6.0 F000 and using it to log into Oracle. If there is no database activity for a while (30 mins roughly), i lose my connection with oracle. Is there a setting somewhere which details the time for disconnecting Arbortext from Oracle?Many thanks for any help

Is there ootb support for flow charts or were we supposed to know that we needed to have that created when we had aour style sheet created. I cannot seem to find any tags that would support this. Any help would be appreciated.Bryon

Hi experts,As part of migration Arbortext editor and Publish Engine from 5.1 version to 6.0 project, we require to test /compare PDF generated in both the versions. Can you please suugest us some tools to compare PDFs in fomatting and content changes view to make easy for our testing process.Thanks in advance.

We often do wiring diagrams.We add cuttout loops where wires cross, so my macro places a pre-drawn cuttout loop at the point picked by left mouse click.It then repeats until right mouse click, when it's supposed to exit.The problem is that it doesn't seem to exit the while loop properly. If you left click on the drawing, it adds the cutout loop drawing OK, and repeats, but when you right click it still keeps repeating - unless you hold the right button for a second or more, but then it selects all the loops you've added to the drawing so far and changes the line type of one of them (as though you've double clicked on it).A simplified version of the macro is below.Strange thing is that if I uncomment the message lines below, the macro seems to work OK, (though with the annoying popup messages of course), except that the first one returns 0 (no mouse click) instead of the expected 1 (left mouse click).I'm obviously doing something wrong but I can't figure it - any of you clever guys help

Hi All, I am trying to fit a 10 column table onto a page. However, when I publish a preview to PDF, the table always shifts to the right and the last two columns get cut off. I just cant seem to align/justify so that the table starts about and inch from the left.(oh, stylesheets are disabled on my system...)Anyone ideas?Thanks, Ed

SpecificallyUnicode Character 'HEAVY WIDE-HEADED RIGHTWARDS ARROW' (U+2794)problem in my FOSI. I am currently trying to replace two characters Ipreviously pulled from a Zapf Dingbats BT font with characters from ArialUnicode MS. The arrow and shadowed square above. Nothing displays.I can get close on the square:Unicode Character 'WHITE SQUARE' (U+25A1)<charsubset charsubsetref="zapf"><usetext source="\&x10132;\" placemnt="before"><subchars charsubsetref="arialms"></subchars></att>Any thoughts?-- Paul Nagai

Hello,I am attempting to modify and save a DTD within the Arbortext Architect DTD Editor6.0 on Windows 7 (64 bit).However, whenever I try and save the DTD, I get "ERROR: could not write DTD file C:\***.dtd".I have checked permissions on this folder and even tried moving and writing to it on a different drive, but each time I get the same error.Has anyone else encountered this ?All works OK on previous versions.Thanks,Andy

Yeah, I know. Still, it seems to work about 50% of the time, so it wasworth a shot.... --Clay Clay HelbergSenior ConsultantTerraXML

Adepters:When a user copies and pastes content from one document to another and the target document does not have definitions for entity references in the copied content, Arbortext Editor auto-defines these entities and inserts them in the internal subset. How do I stop this behavior. We want Arbortext to immediately report an error for undefined entities and turn off context rules.Dave HintzSiemens

If I open an XML file and make an edit in Arbortext Editor (5.3),Arbortext inserts a comment tag before the root element.Example (before):<whydid><para>This is before.</para></whydid>After opening the above XML in Editor and then changing the para text, one has:<whydid><para>This is after.</para></whydid>I'd like to deactivate the insertion of the comment. Can this be done?-- Oracle Email Signature LogoJohn Laurence Poole | Principal Software Engineer | 650.607.0853OracleUser Assistance EngineeringM/S 3op320500 Oracle ParkwayRedwood Shores CA 94065-1677Oracle Instant Chat: john.pooleThe statements and opinions expressed here are my own and donot necessarily represent those of Oracle Corporation.

Hey folks, I spent about 20 minutes on the PTC site looking for the sign up information for Adepters. I know I'm getting older, vision problems (NOT), memory lapses (no comment) and such, but I just could not find it. I am trying to get the sign up information to a lady with a PE problem (or two or three) so she can get some good help with her problem.So anyone who does have that info, please post it and cc the lady in my 'cc' address so she can get it too. Many thanks.Lynn

When we open a topic in our ditamap the file pops open almost immediately, but then the we get a not responding and after about a minute of waiting the resource manager pops up and now you can do something. Is this normal, issue with style sheet?, issue with program? If you go to the ditamap and open a another topic, it renders the complete program useless for another minute or so while it opens the other topic. Is this how it is supposed to be? Also when you are adding a content reference does it more that a minute to generate the list. My desktop system is not bad (E5620 @ 2.4 with 20gb ram) 64 bit operating system. We are running 6.0 m40, our style sheet development started in 5.4 then we upgraded to 6 and the style sheet followed in development.Any comments would be appreciated.Bryon

Hi,We are seeing a gray background behind some of the PNG graphics when we Preview a topic. Does anyone know what is causing this?Thanks!Arbortext 6.0 M010Service Manual ApplicationAPP installed--------------------------------------------------7/23/12 Update, but no solution.If we save the PNG graphics without transparency, the gray background disappears. With transparency, the gray shows up. Does this trigger any ideas? We would hope that "transparent background" means just that. How odd to have a background show up when it is supposed to be invisible.