Arbortext

Hi All--In case you haven¹t received the previous notices, we will have an onlinemeeting of the PTC Users Arbortext Technical Committee. It¹s open to allofficial members of the Technical Committee; unfortunately, not to everyoneelse. The meeting will be on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb 15 and 16, from 8 amto 12 pm pacific time.The call-in numbers and web address should be available soon from the teamat Arbortext.If you¹d like to attend, you must join the TC first. Go to the PTC Userswebsite and select the TC tab. You¹ll find the Arbortext TC first on thelist.The presentations will feature new developments at Arbortext and somepresentations by users.If you are a member of the TC and did not receive the posts I¹ve beensending out, please be certain that the TC is on your ³white list.²Invitations could be going to Spam filters. Check for tc-arbortext ....Best regards,JoAnn HackosChair, Arbortext TC

Hello,I am copying a scanned in image (TIFF). This image is:Bit Depth = 24Hor Res = 100Vert Res = 100Width = 1653Height = 1169It is not sharp enough to get good detail anyone know of a way in isodraw to access any settings?Thank youAlan

Greetings folks, I am suddenly getting a rather 'weird' occurrence when trying to open files from an NAS (Network Access Server). I have the drive mapped to a specific drive letter and I can see the drive and file contents with the 'file open' dialog. Now here is where the problem arises. For some reason or another, When I click to open a file (any file) I get an error saying it cannot find the file. The path shown is the network path, not the mapped drive letter path (e.g., \\server-name\volume-on-NAS\folder-name\file.xml versus f:\folder-name\file.xml).I have tried entering the path using the drive letter and folder (e.g., f:\folder-name\file.xml). To no avail (okay, fifth time is a charm, it finally opened). This is occurring on the two computers that I have Epic installed on (laptop with Windoze 7 Home Premium and desktop with Vista 64 Ultimate). With the Vista machine I thought (explaining this in a bit) that typing the drive and path was the answer and once there, it started work

Hi,I have been using Arbortext Editor (5.4) on 2 different machines. One has the CMM Utilities menu the other doesn't. Can anyone shed light on this? Is there a download I need.Many thanks.

Hi Kathy- From the annotated version of the XSL support document in the ArbortextHelp Center: 6.6.6 fo:instream-foreign-objectArbortext software does not support this extended-level formattingobject. Sorry. You might have better luck if you save the SVG as an externalfile and reference it as an external graphic. --Clay

Hello everyone, I searched the forums for this, but couldn't find anything that answered it.I'm wondering if there is a way to use a relative path when inserting a file reference? We're using a constant folder structure that ideally can be zipped up an transported between machines. The problem is when we put on other clients, the links to the references are breaking depending on where the folders are being saved. If I use a text editor and replace the paths with relative paths, Editor pulls them in just fine. However, this is counterproductive to be replacing file paths.Does anyone know how to use relative paths when using Insert->File Reference?We're using Editor 5.4 M080. Any help is much appreciated!

Never mind. I found it in preferences. There is an option to "Remove Arbortext PIs on save".

We've had this discussion in this group before about how pretty much nothing S1000D is free even if it is a government spec.The question for today: is there a simple, free way to create a sample, proof-of-concept book that will run in a browser - preferably over the internet?The files themselves are still XML In Arbortext - that hasn't changed. We've worked with the Trilogi people - pretty, but NOT simple...and the proof of concept is neither cheap nor fast. We should have Eagle installed sooner or later - we've had the license for a couple of years from what I hear. But getting that dang first sample manual up on a screen...!!!Thanks,John T. Jarrett CDTSenior Tech Writer, Integrated Logistics Support, Land & Armaments/Global Tactical SystemsT 832.673.2147 | M 832.363.7234 | F 832.673.2376 | x1147 | -<">mailto:->BAE Systems, 5000 I-10 West, Sealy, Texas USA 77474www.baesystems.com

Hello Adepters,I'm trying to convert an arbitrary string of markup into a DocumentFragment. The only method I know of to do that is insertParsedString(), with is a method on Range objects.Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out how to attach a range to a fragment and make it work right. I've tried a few variations on the following theme:var d = Application.activeDocument;var f = d.createDocumentFragment();var r = f.getOwnerDocument().createRange();r.selectNodeContents(f);r.insertParsedString("test");Doing that, I get a "paste would make in the pasted region out of context." I've also tried using the setStart() and setEnd() methods on range to no avail.Does anyone have any advice?Thanks,James

Hi,This may be a familiar topic as I have raised it a couple of times. The mostrecent was in August, I think, as I was trying to include profilingattributes and values in a FOSI's semantic table. Thanks to an off-listsuggestion from Brandon and an on-list one from Clay, I have managed to makethis work if composition is conducted locally. I have not been able to do iton Publishing Engine yet. I'm hoping someone can stand on my shoulders andsee over the top.To do this local by way of Print Composed you need three components(presented in reverse order, processing-wise):1) Your FOSI or, presumably, Styler code. Here is my FOSI attribute test:<att><fillval attname="yourpackage::getprof" attloc="system-func"<br"/>fillcat="savetext" fillchar="conrule"><charsubset><savetext textid="gotprof.txt"><usetext source="\asdf" \,gotprof.txt,!<newline="/>!"placemnt="before"></usetext></charsubset></att>Which references:2) Your system-func c

Hi All!If you¹re a member of the PTC Users Arbortext Technical Committee, youshould have received an Outlook announcement from me. We have planned twomorning sessions, Feb 15 and 16, through a web meeting.Here is the agenda:AGENDA1) Arbortext Business Unit Update ­ covers how PTC thinks of Arbortextfrom the business standpoint (30 mins)2) Arbortext Roadmap: Process and Product a. Service Information Solution (SIS) Overview (45 mins) b. Demo ­ SIS (30 mins) c. Demo ­ Galaxy (Technical Illustration tool) (30 mins)3) Upcoming releases: What¹s new (30 mins)4) Futures: (30 mins) a. Review / Preview5) DITA 1.2 (30 mins)6) Customer topics/Presentations (TBD) 2-3 at 30 mins eachYou must be an official member of the Arbortext TC to attend. If you are,please be certain to send me an Outlook confirmation. If you are not, Iinvite you to become a member through the PTC Users website. Find the TC taband click on Arbortext TC to join. You must use an official corporate emailaddress and complete the f

Hi, So, I was able to modify the sample script (e3script.bat, e3samples.jar, e3client.jar) to publish to the PE Server using the default stylesheet, but when I try and use our custom FOSI, the server returns the 500 error. I've tried to use all sorts of paths--to no avail Thanks! Alex ============================================================== Here's my text file with the parameters that the e3script.bat file reads: # Setup our policies (see the javadoc for more information).setpolicy DELETE_PARTIAL_FILES_POLICY falsesetpolicy LOG_THREAD_PREFIX_POLICY truesetpolicy LOG_TIME_DATE_PREFIX_POLICY truee3 <u>http://Config8518VM0:8080/e3/servlet/e3</u>basedir .java com.arbortext.e3.E3AppTest convert PDF_FORMATconvert_set FOSI_PARAMETER Wide_D6_English.fosconvert_set INPUT_FORMAT_PARAMETER XML_FORMATconvert_set OUTPUT_FORMAT_PARAMETER PDF_FORMATpost <u>\\Plefilesvr01\techpubs\DropOff\AlexSato\temp\build-test\src\deployment_guide.xml</u> <u>\\Plefilesvr01\techpu

anyone know how to do this off-hand? I honestly haven't looked hard yet, sodon't you go look hard. BUT if you've just done it or something similar andcan throw me a codelet or point me in the right direction ... that'd be verycool.I want to be able to:Do this thing.Do that thing.Launch the profiling dialog and wait for the author to profile.Then move on to the next thing.And the next.And so on.But the profiling dialog (epic_profiling::update_element_profile()) isn'tmodal. "Then move on to the next thing." proceeds without waiting for theprofiling dialog to close.-- Paul Nagai

Hello all, I am working on upgrading our Arbortext software from 5.3 M040 to 5.4early this year. I am trying to get a general feel for backwards compatibility andcomposition issues with the various maintenance. When I upgraded from 5.1F to 5.3 M040, it took a few M0X0 tries to findone that resolved outstanding issues and contained a minimal amount ofnew "issues" that I had to address, so I thought maybe some duediligence amongst the user community might help me avoid some of thatthis time down the road. Some details: We use in-house developed SGML and XML document types based on ATA100. We still use FOSI for all hard copy composition. This includes usingFOSI userules and ACL funcs to generate LOEP/TOC data. We wrote our ownprocess applications for electronic distribution. We still use complex floats for images and repeating table titles acrosspage boundaries. We use algroup quite often for generated tabular data. We use PE server with Adobe Distiller server, but want to move to theDire

Anyone out there had experience of touch screen hyper-linking to sub-assemblies using graphics (not callouts) embedded within an IETP.The native software for the graphics is IsoDraw 7.1 CAD Process exported as cgms?Trilogi is the viewer for the IETP.Thanks for your time.Nick

Hello,I have a strange problem that I didnt think I would encounter. I am using the Batch Process with a Macro to convert files. One of the things in this macro is to change the active document name to the contents of a variable:activeDoc.name = strICNUnfortunately when running the macro using the batch process it doesnt change the name - it keeps the original file name and seems to ignore this command. If I run the Macro within Isodraw it then changes it, and I can then save this manually - however I would prefer to avoid doing this 250 times.The only thing I can think of is that when using the batch process the file is not an ''active' document so the command will not work (just guessing here), if this is the case how do I change the file name when using the batch process? or is their a command that changes the filename whether it is active or not?Many thanks for your assistance.Alan

Have anyone investigated the use of XAML code into Arbortext to create graphics?My SW programmers use XAML, and it would be really useful if we could share the source code.....

Hi,Could anybody help me doing Arbortext and windchill integration using Object->ConnectI used content manager guide to configure the PTC server. No Success.Thanks in advance,Manisha.

Is it possible to transform an existing xml document using a custom stylesheet to dita xml using the Compose Using XSL option?The effort is merely to get the text into the dita framework and then re-write, re-structure without all the cut and paste.I get an error that states "Stylesheet "location/name" is not valid for Compose Using XSL.Stylesheet type: XSLUses: XML"Is there a config file that needs to be altered/created? Will Arbortext allow transforming one XML to another?

I write lots of macros to speed up drawing tasks in Isodraw and they fall into 3 useage categories.Ones that are used all the timeOnes that are used a few times a weekOnes that are used infrequently for specialist jobs.Toolbars seem to be the only way for us to have macros easily accessible because the drop down Macros menu only lists the first 15 macros and they are only by macro name, no icons to give further clues to what they are for. I'd like to have all macros on toolbars, but it would get rather cluttered with all of them visible at once.Is there a way that a macro can hide and show our custom toolbars? I'd like to be able to hide and show toolbars without having to go through the Window menu. The hide function works for the palette windows, but not the toolbars. Is there any other way?Please PTC can you add into IML a facility to create menu windows!

Hi All,I am very new to this community. I want to write a java class. Through which I want to connect to the Arbortext Publishing engine. and then trying to convert my xml file to pdf.....Can anybody help me how can i do this one???????Thanks,Sunita Choudhury

I've been testing an ACL script that uses the function inside_tag(). Itseems to have a bug. If I test for an element name that has a 'dot' in thename (e.g., <dtd.frag>) it will not recognize when it is inside the tag.I've tested this with a couple of different element names both in the scriptand from the command line and get the same result which is a failure. Has anyone else found this to be true? And if so does anyone have a workaround. Many thanks. Lynn

Hi All,I know nothing about Arbortext.....but we have a need at my company to create catalogs for our product lines (both web based catalogs and print catalogs). We currently manage this catalog using autocad. A typical catalog will have a 2d drawing layout page showing some high level dimensions and a table showing all the variations on those dimensions. NOTE: the drawing does not need to be updated in the catalog ever. The next catalog page has a text based list of options for this family of product (so each product family has two pages in the catalog).Our requirements are:Must have rev control on each catalog pageMust be able to generate a full catalog (combining all pages) easily and in a variety of formats (HTML, PDF, etc.)Must be able to include nice flashy images, colors, etc. like a publishing software would do.Must come with an editor or page maker tool that non-technical people can use to create catalog pagesMust be easy to use and implementMy question is......is Arbortext th

I want to do a macro that moves the start point of a callout but I can't find a function to do this.I'm assuming the callout is already selected and just want to find the start point of the callout line (i.e. the bit that points to something on the drawing, not the text end).I'm hoping that there is something similar to the line end point property (e.g. myelem.line.startPoint.x) but for callouts - I can't find it though.

Hey everybody,Let's say I do the following in Arbortext: var document = Application.activeDocument; var a = document.getElementById("stuff"); var b = document.getElementById("stuff");So both a and b point to the same DOM element. Now, if I check their equality: a == bI get "false." Why is that? Shouldn't both variables contain references to the same object, and therefore be equal? Is there a simple way to check for element equality in javascript?Note that when I do the same thing in a web browser, I get "true," like I expect.Thanks,James