Arbortext

Hello everyone,I am having a little problem...When I import/place a TIF file into Isodraw 7.2 CadProcess or Foundation 64bit the tif is white (blank)...this does not happen on all TIF's and this is what is confusing me. Any ideas or suggestions is greatly appreciated!ThanksAlan

Hi,I would like to make links froma text in one DITA topic into a target text in another DITA topic.If both topics are collected into a DITA Map, links are working well, of couse.But after I publish complete DITA mapinto a PDF, I get alarge book about 200Mb in size. So more preferable to have few DITA Topics, whichhave been published into PDF separately into small PDF books. But links doesn't work from one PDF into another PDF file in such case. Is it possible to create cross-reference links between separate PDF files? Probably Adobe API is needed?Any suggestion is usefull.Alexander Neder,PTS

How do you prevent conrefs from updating automatically when the source topic is revised or updated?I would like to use content references for Standard Warning Text but I don't want the generated text in the conrefs to automatically update when the source element is updated.

Hi All,I don't know ACL (can barely spell it) - but I need to know of a simple way of extracting a list of all of the graphic entities in use in my XML doc (as what I'm really trying to do is to both eliminate / delete unused graphic entities, as well as eliminate / delete graphics that I'm not using in my current XML doc.)I can see them in the Arbortext Graphic Entities ('Count Uses') Dialog box, but I don't know how to dump them out to a text file, .csv, .xls or whatever - some format that I can rack and stack them in.It's a military XML tech manual (LOGSA MIL-STD 40051-2 chg 3, ASRL Construct 3.27, Stylesheet Fileset V1.8)I know one of you gurus can pass me a simple ACL command line whoozit to dump the list of used/unused graphic entities.Barring that, I'm relegated to screenshotting and OCRing a gazillion pages of the Arbortext Graphic Entities Dialog box ('Count Uses'), in order to rack and stack the list of 1500 plus graphic files to eliminate some 500+ of them that I don't need

I would like to know in which folder/file the stylesheets are confiugred. Actually the Arbortext Editor clients got the list of stylesheet from PE. -Bala AJ-

Hi All,Here is your Wednesday mission if you should agree to accept it!So, at publish time if I apply the profile IPLtype=user then the text "NSS" is outputif I apply the profile IPLtype=engineering then the text "3051-25" is outputAll good so far...However for some parts in the "user" context I want to output "3051-25", how do I do that?Note: the content between the <part_reuse> tag is inserted from a repository and I don't want that touched as it will be used in other documents.<part><pos>1</pos><part_reuse><partnumber><label ipltype="engineering">3051-25</label><label ipltype="user">NSS</label></partnumber><partname_en>Pan barunit assay.</partname_en><comment></comment></part_reuse><serial_no></serial_no><kit_no></kit_no><quantity></quantity><unit></unit></part>Is this something that Styler can handle?We're looking at all possibilities

Hi adepters,I'm trying to pass off a list of parameters from java to an acl function. The acl function expects the list of params like so:function myFunction(filename, params[]) { ... if(define (params["Param1"]) { # do something } ...}My java method call looks like this:Acl.func("myAcl::myFunction",filename);I'm a beginner/novice with Acl, so I don't understand how to pass off the params. Here's some of my ideas but I haven't tried the right variation yet that works:Acl.func("myAcl::myFunction",filename,"Param1=MyValue,Param2=MyValue");Acl.func("myAcl::myFunction",filename, "-Param1 MyValue", "-Param2 MyValue");Acl.func("myAcl::myFunction",filename, "Param1('MyValue'), Param2('MyValue')");Acl.func("myAcl::myFunction",filename, "MyValue", "MyValue");Thanks in advance!

Hi there, I am trying to use the customized style sheet that we had created for us to do our operators manuals to also create a parts catalog. My issue is that I am wanting my graphic to always show up on the even page so the graphic to text will always be side by side. I cannot figure out what setting I should change in my stylesheet. I have added each topic to my ditamap at the chapter level.In styler under element I have changed my chapter, breaks, start new to "even". That did not fix it.Is this where I should be thinking about modifiying this setting?Thanks,Bryon

Hi *,we want to use the Arbortext ActiveX in an C# App. We can open the xml files, edit and save the changes, but we have some problems with customizing.Could you say me whether next action are possible:1) creating of new toolbars?2) setting the toolbar-buttons to unvisible?3) drag-n-drop of graphics in the xml-file? The graphics are located in the database tables.There are any documents (help) for the ActiveX in C#?Thank you very much!PaulPS. Excuse me for my english.:-)

I want to check the first character of a #CONTENT savetext for a parenthesis "(" and if it exists, strip it out.an xpath condition test starts-with(self::text(), '(') didn't work.And these didn't work in a conrule:substring(#CONTENT,2) or substr(#CONTENT,2)Can you put an XPATH expression in a conrule?(Styler 5.3)Thanks!

I am using AT Styler (APP Engine) for the PDF output. I would like to add grey shaded background for the table header rows.For this i created Property set (i.e. copied the default "box" and modfied as "shade")> I added the APP Source edit with the "fill color". It is not worked out. Also it's throwing composition error. I have attached the Event Log.xml.Could any one help me on this.Is the APP Source Edit for Property set is OK? or any other method in Styler was there to modify the background color of header row.

Hi I need some help creatinga macro that will copy the contents of a cell and create an index tag with those contents. I have created one but it only works with 6 digit numbers and only can do one cell at a time. We have a mix of 4, 5 and 6 digit part numbers. What I would like to do is select the entire column, maybe 20 or entries and run this macro and have an index tag created for each one. I cannot seem to change the amount of characters that I can select or number of cells as I seems to mess everything up if I do it that wayHere is what I got#Enter; insert_tag("indexterm"); LineUp; CharLeftExtend; repeat 5; EditCopy; LineDown; repeat 2; EditPaste;Thanks Bryon

My group has migrated from Epic 4.3.1 to Arbortext 5.4. We have one doctype that will not compile. It fails with this message:"The maximum number of attributes allowed in a doctype (20000) has been exceeded. Reduce the number of defined attributes or entities and recompile.Compile failed - rc=64"Is there anyway to increase this limit? We changed ATTCAP to various values up to 100000 in the SGML declaration, but it had no effect on the 20000 reported, so it seems like a hard coded limit, but that limit is too small for our purposes.Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.Debra Lee

Hi All,I'm having difficulty configuring the proper font sets for Traditional and Simplified Chinese in a FOSI-based Styler stylesheet.We've had success with both Japanese and Korean, but seem to be stuck with Chinese. In both Chinese variations, the formatter kicks out errors indicating the system is searching for our characters in the Japanese font set. From what I understand of how the system moves through font substitutions of the tfontsub configuration file, it seems that the system does not recognize any font that I set for chs or cht, rolls to the first font in the windowsonly fonts (Japanese), and then finally tries the default font, Arial.I'm suspicious that the publishing pipeline doesn't recognize that we're dealing with Chinese content. Is there any way to check this?I appreciate any insight or troubleshooting tips.Thank you,Anne**Please note that I also posted on PlanetPTC**

I have a xref link which points to a ditamap. Arbortext Editor doesn't support and throws an error. Is this expected one. Could you please help me on this.<Level>ERROR</Level><Message>Reference made to ditamap document "DITAmap 1.ditamap" in document "C:\Users\balaj\Desktop\sandeep\Linkingtest\Task topic 1.dita" at line 17 is not allowed for reference element(xref)</Message>

Hi All,I'm having difficulty configuring the proper font sets for Traditional and Simplified Chinese in a FOSI-based Styler stylesheet. We've had success with both Japanese and Korean, but seem to be stuck with Chinese. In both Chinese variations, the formatter kicks out errors indicating the system is searching for our characters in the Japanese font set. From what I understand of how the system moves through font substitutions of the tfontsub configuration file, it seems that the system does not recognize any font that I set for chs or cht, rolls to the first font in the windowsonly fonts (Japanese), and then finally tries the default font, Arial.I'm suspicious that the publishing pipeline doesn't recognize that we're dealing with Chinese content. Is there any way to check this? I appreciate any insight or troubleshooting tips.Thank you,Anne

I use Leonardo plug in to create companion file. Can anyone provide me the exact procedure to do this?

We recently switch from documentum to PDMLink and I have notice that entity declarations are being saved into my lower level burst objects in PDMLink. This wasn’t a problem in documentum. Does anybody know how to stop this?Thanks in advance!

There may be a more direct FOSI-ish way to do it, but as a last resort,I would assume you could do it using an ACL SYSTEM_FUNC, something alongthese lines: <att><specval attname="fosicompare" attloc="SYSTEM-FUNC<br"/><">http://localhost:62953/aeFosi/help1325.html?queryId=135f845da96> " attval="#NONE"><charsubset><usetext source="\This" element=" has=" no=" content\"="></usetext></charsubset></att> in doctype.acl: function fosicompare(window, oid) { # compare A.txt and B.txt, return 1 if they are equal return (fosivar_value(window, "A.txt", oid)==fosivar_value(window,"B.txt", oid));} --Clay Clay HelbergSenior ConsultantTerraXML

We have just upgraded to Arbortext 6.0 M020 are having multiple speed issues. Whenever we try to print preview, publish or print a document with graphics it slows down to a snails pace and will lock up the workstation. We have some people running Print Composer and some on PE Server, same issues with speed. We have been in contact with PTC and made several configuration changes to PE to accomodate large document processing however speed is still an issue. We havemaxed out thememoryon all workstations. Still having problems. We are contemplating backing back down to 5.4 since this is a major set back in our production process. Has anyone else experienced these types of problems?

I have a question on where should I set an option likedeepcontentsplitting for PE.I have a startup .acl in my custom init directory is that correct place? Should I place it somewhere else?Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone,We are working on a project to create Ebooks from XTML 1.0 strict files, and we are evaluating the possibility of using EPIC 4 or 5 to edit the contents. But so far we have seen that XHTML files with the declaration:Once are saved with EPIC, turn into1.- Is there any way to avoid EPIC from turning the doctype into a PI?2.- Is there any way to use CSS to visualize the editing screen? (Or any tool to convert simple CSS to FOSI)3.- Any tips or recommandations for the editors using EPIC to edit XHTML files?TNX!!_____________________________Gabriel OreggioniDeTeDe, XML - EditorialBarcelonawww.detede.com

Hello Adepters,We have an empty element "endReusableBlock" that only has one attribute "id". It is styled as a block, with its text hidden and we add some gentext after it.[cid:image002.png@01CCFB81.BB0260F0]If we select a block that ends with the hidden element:[cid:image003.png@01CCFB81.BB0260F0]And use Application.ActiveDocument.getTextSelection() to get the selected text, the function doesn't return the hidden element in the range. If I change the styling of the element and make it non hidden. The function "getTextSelection()" returns is in the range.Does anybody have an idea how to solve this?Thanks,-Samah

Actually I got a requirement that to get the Page number of a topic which was cross-referenced(xref). When I use cross reference style in Styler it gives the respective page number in the PDF with the respective links. But I don't want to create a link just want to show the page number as text. Is it possible through styler. I don't know Is this possible with modify of the styler formatting element _sfe:crossreference? Could you please advise me.

Why does Isodraw convert text fonts to Bezier paths when exporting to EPS? I would much rather have the text inthe EPS so that when distilled to PDF, the text will be available for search