Arbortext

Hello,I want to add change bars to the deep splitting pages.However, Arbortext does not support deep splitting pages with change bars.I wonder if anybody has any solutions to circumvent this limitation?Thanks a lot!Bill

We recently migrated from 4.3.1 to 5.4. On 4.3.1, the editor did not acknowledge line breaks in the SGML, which is how an SGML editor is supposed to behave. On 5.4, however, line endings in the SGML are recognized and displayed on screen. This makes it very difficult for the authors to search on phrases.Any ideas? Thank you.

We have just migrated from Epic 4.3.1 to Arbortext 5.4. On 4.3.1 a line ending in the SGML was treated as white space and the editor would not break the line, which is the expected and desired behaviour. On 5.4, the line ending causes the line to break in the editor display. This makes it very difficult for the author to search for phrases.Any ideas as to why this is so, and how to fix it? (my current workaround is that I simply changed all line endings to white space, which is not an acceptable solution) Thanks!

I know this is old, too, but could it be a catalog issue? Are you using APTCATPATH environment variable, and if so, do you have %D included as one of the paths?

As most of you who know me know, I haven't been posting much the past year or so. I just haven't been using Epic to the degree that I used to. So now I am in a ketchup, no that is CATCH UP mode. I have been looking at topics as they flash by, just not really reading the posts, so if this question is old news (which I believe it is) pardon me.I upgraded my 5.4 from F000 to M060 the other day and now whenever I try to open an XSL file I get the obnoxious error telling me Epic cannot find the schema. One of my comrades in arms is using 5.4 M050 and she has the same problem.Is this something new (like the improvements in Windows 7?) or am I just not totally with it anymore?One other question while I'm here. Is there still an archive of Adepters posts somewhere on the PTC site?ThanksLynn

It's been a couple of years since I've had to do this trick and it doesn't seem to be available anymore.The trick was that at one time Arbortext/PTC(?) allowed two licenses for Epic, one on a 'fixed' machine and one for 'portable' use. I've upgraded laptops (from a dual core to quad core) and want to transfer the 'portable' license to the new laptop. The only license I see on the PTC site now is the one for my 'fixed' computer. Has this feature been removed during my hiatus or do I have to call PTC to obtain the key. I didn't see anything on their site related to this.Thanks.Lynn

I know that if you have, for instance, a concurrent license, and you look in your Arbortext...\bin directory, there will be a DLL file named "elmdlm.dll". If you have a fixed license, there will be one named "elmdsl.dll". You can add the use of a fixed license to a PC with a concurrent license that you want to use when it is disconnected from your network where the concurrent license is managed. You would usually do this for a laptop on which you want to use Arbortext while on travel.Conversely, you can do the opposite, so that a fixed-license-only PC can use a concurrent license on a network with a server-based license manager (although why you would want to do this if you already have a fixed license is beyond me).Anyway, you can do this by copying the desired DLL from the Arbortext.../dll folder and pasting it into the Arbortext.../bin folder. I believe this works for all versions of Editor up to 5.2. I am not sure about newer versions.

I have a need to pull selected information from my "master" XML file and write it to an XML file with a different DTD. I'll need a separate process to take information from that separate XML file and put it back in my "master." Does any one have suggestions about thebest way to go about this? Thanks, Carolyn Herlin

We use to have epic editor 5.1, which was showing many tags on insert markup popup windon mode selected as PI, whereas in case 5.3M100, we are able to see only 3 markups tags.if i want to see markup in mode selected as PI, tags expecting are newline, newpage, handspace, hyphen point, which were showing in 5.1version epic ediot.what needs to do to show these tags in 5.3 M100 epic editor

So I have a need to make white text on a black background for my headings.I've got thsi working with font color and highlighting (white text and abox with black).This is fine for the output but the editor is not displaying the text(white on white). The boxing is not showing up in the editor view. I canset the font background to black, but that looks grey and affects thecomposed result as well with a grey background.Is this where I need to start managing a editor version of the FOSI and acomposed version? What are the Apply -> Use for Editor and Use forComposed View supposed to do? I can't find any documentation on these...dan

I have a xml content has characters in china, Japan and Korean languages, generated pdf showing blank in place of these characters.What are pre requisites to support these languages on publish server(Arbortext Publishing engin 5.3).i have configured fosi file as below and server has installation of Arial Unicode MS<font style="serif" famname="Arial Unicode MS" size="11pt" posture="upright" weight="medium"width="regular" offset="0pt"/>.Does the server also require installation of East Asian language pack or any other configuration required?

I have a feeling this requires a psuedo element but I wanted to check. Ihave this rough XML content<manual type="checklist"><step> <challenge>text here</challenge><response>response here</response></step><step> <response>response here</response></step></manual>So I want to control the formatting of <response> based upon the following:- attribute type on <manual>- if <response> is precedded with a <challenge>I'm able to control the formatting based upon the attribute value (byitself) and I'm able to modify a counter (thanks Paul Nagai) that resetson <step> to 0 and increments when <challenge> is found. If challenge isnot 0 then I have my flag to control formatting that way.Is the best solution to drop a pseudo element in after the <challenge> andthen place the check of the attribute value on this psudo element? I wantthe special formatting to be removed if <challege> d

We try to implement Isodraw 7.1 M030 with our existing Windchill PDMLink 9.1 M040.I've been able to connect Isodraw with the UWGM and check-in .ISO files. I'm trying to retreive images (productview format .PVZ) from PDMLink into my workspace and then open it with Isodraw but I've never been able to do this.Any one faced this issue?

Hi,we are currently using Arbortext Editor 5.4 M020. We are extending the editor with Java functionality; one of the third party components used by our tool uses DOM Level 3 (in detail: Node.getTextContent()).Is there a reason why the editor does not implement DOM Level 3? The supplied Java Version (1.6.0.13) shouldn't be the problem...Is there a way to add DOM Level 3 support to the editor?Best regards,Mathias Harbeck

Does Arbortext IsoDraw support VB Scripting other than macros for batch processing.

I'm using Editor 8.0 for US Navy NPE PMS development. But I need to update the software with the following patches: Ad801x86.exe and Ad81win.exe In the support area of PTC it gives no updates for the version 8.0 software. Where or how can I obtain these updates?

We are using Arbortext editor 5.3 to author content and storing in documentum, if we place cursor after the last element, on save in epic it is adding processing instruction <?Pub Caret?> after last element, this is causing issue in documentum considering this as element.we want to to remove processing element if exist as a last element, please let me know how to remove.Thanksvittal

I just got stumped. A user wants to sort a table by column. I have no clueif that is possible. I am using version 5.2. Our data is SGML.d

Available for immediate downloading from PTC's support site is theArbortext 5.4 M060 release. This maintenance release includes bug fixes only. If you want to knowall the details about this release, please check out the release notes<">http://www.ptc.com/view?im_dbkey=115579> . If you have any questionsabout the release schedule, please reference the PTC Product Calendarat: <">http://www.ptc.com/company/tl/index.htm>

Hi,Has anybody done a check to see if an internal file (i.e. index.app) if it exists? What my problem is that we have a template that always puts in an Index tag even when there aren't index entries. So what I would like to do is check to see if the index.app file has anything in it before I put out the Index header etc. I think it might be some kind of system-func or #FOSI type check, but I haven't come up with anything yet.Thanks,Ellen

Hi,I have created a DLM Quick Start Files page on adepters.org. It includes ahandful of sample files and file fragments that I took from a working DLMimplementation, genericized, tar'ed (since adepters.org doesn't support .zipfiles), and uploaded. There is a readme and some file fragments havecomments inside.Direct link to the adepters.org page here:

Are there any IsoDraw users out there? I see it is labeled an Arbortextproduct (rather than PTC) so I think this is a valid question here 😉Anyway, I'm looking for documentation on command line parameters. I didn'tfind anything in the help file...dan

Easier, but then the rest of us wouldn't learn from it... 😄Steve Thompson+1(316)977-0515

FYI - It's "Brandon", not "Brendon". If you look on one of his posts, his email address should be at the top of the message.And Steve Thompson is right - one of the purposes of this forum is to educate everyone who signs up, including the "lurkers" who almost never post anything.

Is there a command, within ACL, for outputting a character string without the end-of-string 0x00 ascii character ?