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The Arbortext APP (3B2) users' meeting for 2011 will be held on the 9th and 10th of May in London, England.Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher (APP), formerly known as the 3B2 Publishing System, has provided the core development environment behind the solutions to many complex and extreme publishing requirements for over 24 years.This event gives you the opportunity to:Discover the potential from new and updated Arbortext products.Learn new technologies and APP (3B2) application methods.Have your Arbortext and APP questions answered.Meet with other publishing professionals and Arbortext / APP (3B2) specialists from the world wide community.Version 11 of APP will be released later this year and is making its debut to an international audience at this event.(The event programme will be delivered exclusively in English. However, some of the conference speakers and hosts will be able to converse with you in German, Spanish and French.)For more details on this event, please visit www.tformat

Hi, When I copy a simple table from MS Excel into an S1000D document anduse the Edit/Paste Excel feature, I get a table of the correct size andnumber of rows, but the table is empty. I've painstakingly followed the directions for using the Excel importfeature to the letter, but the result is the same. Looking at the source all the entry rows are empty. Suggestions? Greg

I have just upgraded to Arbortext 6.0 M010. We use an aliasFilePrintPreview command to execute an ACL script when the Print Preview icon is clicked on the Edit toolbar.This all worked great in Arbortext 5.x. I have checked the editmenu.cf file to make sure that I have the correct command for Print Preview and I have also check the editwindow.xml file to verify the toolbar command. It still says FilePrintPreview.If I modify the editwindow.xml file to execute the script it works fine but that will change it for the entire application and I need it to be doctype specific. I have also tried to alias the id Toolbar_Preview but still no luck.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Has anyone had any experience using Arbortext to output to the "Folio Views" and "NXT" formats?

We've been using the Windchill Workgroup Manager for a few months and have been feeling the pain more and more of not having the checkin tied to our publish macro.The situation: We had a publish/save macro. Basically it exported eps files and saved the currently open iso file to a network location. When we moved to workgroup manager I took the save portion of the macro away, but it is still needed to export.Is there a way to call out the two different checkin functions from a macro? Or is it possible to 'fool' the system and call two functions from a toolbar to occur at a single button push?

Hello Adepters,I'm trying to make some decisions about our import/export future roadmap and support. Specifically, I am trying to get a sense of how many people use the import/export feature for Word 2002.I'd be interested to hear from you if this is a version you currently use in production for your import/export of Arbortext content. I believe there is a low volume of customers, and this may lead to sunsetting that specific version's support.Thanks for any feedback.-------------------------------------------Pushpinder ToorArbortext Product Manager

We are evaluating authoring coach solutions.I know of Sajan, but what else is out there for these type of products.

Hi AllI have one user out of6 with IsoDraw + CaD Process 7.1 m050 who keeps getting a lost license error.We're running a license server for all PTC licenses and don't see errors with anyone else so I think its something with his install or PCHave checked the log files and Windows event manager, tested his network connection and see no errorsIts a Windows 7 32bit machineHas anyone else seen this and can maybe give me a few pointers

Hi,New user here, I have lots of questions, and I welcome pointers to existing resources.I have Arbortext 6, Windhill 10, new to DITA and SMA.I am working on test files, a basic SMA map with a few short topic types inserted.If I want to refer to one model number in several of the mapped topics, what do I reference and how to reference it? I seem to be missing something.I tried entering a value for the modelno in the SMA map; then, from a topic in the map, attempt to conref or xref to the modelno in the smamap, but the modelno does not show up in the Resource Manager as available to reference.Where am I going wrong?Thanks!Lisa A

A new release ("build") of Arbortext IsoDraw & IsoView 7.2 M010 is coming out. List of fixed bugs/errors can be viewed below.IsoDraw 7.2 M010:IsoView 7.2 M010:

Hi all,We create documents using Arbortext Editor and css with Syler and have a request to have tables in PDF with rounded corner.The quick way we are trying is just create a rounded rectangle SVG and use that as a background to the content, putting the table in front of it. It is easy but not seems to be the WAY...Also we think on creating the table as a Scalable Vector Graphics(SVG) object, and include that as an external-image in our XML document. SVG supports rounded corners, and XML supports SVG. It seems to add more complexity...So we are searching the WAY as an specific or modified function on the Styler to programe the CCS to publish directly rounded corner tables. Does anybody know if it is possible and/or whow to do it?Thank you!!!!

My company is beginning an Arbortext implementation so I am exploring ways to convert Pagemaker and InDesign files to Arbortext. I'm looking for some advice on the best approach as well as any software recommendations.Thanks in advance,Tim

Hi,I'm trying to code a field name index based on the element <field> withchild <field_name>. I've made "custom" indexes before, but only in FOSI. Thedoctype already has an element based "standard" index (<indexterm><primary<br/>...).I can output the field index contents only if I do not set userule="2". WhenI do that, it fails. Am I just missing something or is there a limitationI'm not aware of when using a .style rather than a FOSI in this regard?-- Paul Nagai

Hi all,I have a custom XSD and am I styling for PDF using the APP engine in Editor 6.0 M10.I am looking for a way to store things like numbering and other context related information in attributes. An example of this would be storing the font family and size as it is applied by the stylesheet in the attributes of the element being styled.This will mean that an external system which receives the XML data would be able to tell that a title was "printed" in a certain font and size.I have had a look at using xpath in genetated text, but have not been able find a logical solution. I assume one would need to capture the generated text for numbering in some sort of variable and then write that variable's value into the attribute of the relevant element.I would appreciate a pointer in the right direction.Thanks,Duan

Hi All,Yes, Hal Trent gave a presentation on our catalog developments at the PTC World conference this year (2011).The conference slides are at skype joannhackos[Comtech-Logo]

We are new users of Arbortext 6.0 and Windchill 10, and are using the SMA application for our product manuals.As far as using graphics in our SMA topics, would it be better to put our graphics into a library in Windchill, then insert them into our Arbortext SMA topics, or to create an SMA Reference topic that is essentially a library of graphics, then insert conrefs to the graphics in that "library" topic?Thanks,Lisa A

Hi All,When using the document map in AE 5.4, I thought that there used to be a way(shortcut key?) in older versions of Arbortext to collapse a entire 'level'of a document (not the whole doc), rather than trying to do it using theselect 'all' in the tags dialog box of 'Collapse / Expand Divisions.' Case in point - (large docs of 1000+ pgs) After I do some raw XML editingand update the doc, it reopens with every single tag expanded fully(arrggh). Which means that, to again make it reasonably manageable fornormal navigating, I've got to manually go through it and close down thesections until it is organized in a less user 'hostile' way (by Chapter andWork Packages). Didn't there used to be a way that you could do some mouse or keyboardaction over the vertical lines of the doc map and close it down by 'levels'rather than by discrete tag names? Curious - maybe I'm just engaging in a little late summer, Labor Day Friday,daydreaming with this one. But if anyone has any appropriate tips/trick

Or have you executed some other strategy for trapping, reviewing, and thensending the messages Editor creates for the conversation with PE?-- Paul Nagai

I'm using Arbortext Editor with Styler 5.3 M130. I am looking for info on configuring the tri-pane HTML output from Arbortext Editor (File > COmpose > for Web), and I'm not finding much. Where would be a good place to find out how to do things like the following:- Split up XML topics into HTML pages- Getting the left-pane TOC to work (it's blank except for a non-working search box)Are these Styler items? DCF config items? Something else?Thanks,Mark

Adepters,Is there a simple way to run Editor in batch mode to perform a complete composition task silently?I've used something like this before to get a quick print: editor -c "print allpasses force wait" myfile.xmlbut what I really want is to be able to specify a profile to be used and to compose to PDF.We have Arbortext 5.3/6.0 and use a Publishing Engine.Thanks,Martin BushbyKongsberg Maritime

I edit graphics after inserting JPGs in Arbortext documents. When I reload the modified graphic, I always get an annoying viewer which I have to close before being asked to insert and seeing the new graphic. Is ther a way to shut off this automatic viewer?I checked Advanced Preferences but did not find the option. Is there a command line option? I use Arbortext 5.3.Thanks - Mike

Oops, I meant SGML to XML not vice versa. The idea should work either way, if it works.

How to convert sgml dtd to xml dtd.Are there any tools to make this converision?

Good afternoon.I use a version of Arbortext IETP Services Version 4.4 M010 (006)In this version I have problems with links to hotspots in the legend.With the latest version they have changed.I have more than a week trying to understand the mechanism of how they work.And I had a few questions. Maybe someone knows or knowssomeone who can answer me this question.Firstly the file figurePanel.jspxFor legends exist the following code<lbs: translate id = "translatedLegend"xml = "# {figure.currentFigure.legend}" pub = "# {index.selectedPub}"xsl = "# {index.styleSheetPath}" isoview = "# {index.iso}"dir = "# {index.directory}" />As used index.styleSheetPath descriptSchema.xslIn descriptSchema.xsl imported a lot of styles. The question of what piece of coderesponsible for processing the tag XREF. I used to have style xref.xslNow what happened to him that without him. If anyone has information on this issue.I would be very grateful.Andrey Golovatyuk

I just upgraded to Arbortext 6.0 M010. We use Distiller to generate PDF files. In an ACL I have the set usedistiller = on andset pdfprinter = "Adobe PDF". In Arbortext 5.x when I had the usedistiller option set to "on" the option to select a publishing config file would go away or at least be disabled. In 6.0 it is still an active option. Is there anyway to disable this? I've checked the DCF but haven't had any luck.Thanks in advance for your help.