Arbortext

Next week: Adepter's regular, Paul Nagai!*"Real-Time, Mission-Critical Publications with Digital Media Publisher*"*Presented by Paul Nagai, Nagai Resources**Date*: Saturday, 27 February 2009, 9:00-10:30 AM Pacific/US*Location*: Online via GoToMeeting . You must RSVP to receive theGoToMeeting invite.*Cost*: Free and open to all who wish to attend.*RSVP*: ">https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/462827346<https: www.123signup.com=" event?id="jqjxg">*Topic*Come see how a financial company has used Arbortext Digital Media Publisherto reduce time-to-market for publication deliveries to worldwide processingcenters from one month to near real time. Leveraging existing Arbortextinvestments and expertise in XML and related technologies, the systemprovides an end-to-end electronic publishing solution fully supported by asingle vendor. If you missed the PTC/User conference last year, this is yourchance to see one of the outstanding presentations we were treated to!*About the Speaker*Paul

Hi Everyone,Hi Everyone,After some false starts, we have settled on dates for the Arbortext Webinarswith the members of the Arbortext Technical Committee. The events will beheld from 8 ­ 11 am Pacific time on Wednesday 10 March and Thursday 11March, 2010. I will send you an Outlook invitation shortly.I¹ll have details about the agenda soon. The discussions will includepresentations from TC members and from PTC Arbortext project managers.I would like anyone to volunteer to make a 10 minute presentation to theproject managers and members.Topic: How are you implementing Arbortext in your organization? Whatconcerns do you have?We¹d like to use this time for Q&A as well as presentations. I know many ofyou have already voiced concerns about the general direction of theArbortext products that you may want to raise with the project managers andmembers. I took everyone¹s previous comments into account when planningthese events.Once we have the agenda in place, I will ask you to let me know

I am using Arbortext Editor V5.2 (MPL-2037). When producting a PDF when there are combination of letters (fi) anywhere within the content of my XML these do not print. I get a square box to represent these characters. Can anyone assist as to why this is happening?

Hello, This message is intended to point customers to the formal communicationregarding PTC's end-of-product support for Arbortext(r) PublishingEngine(tm) on Solaris(r) and Linux(r) Operating Systems beginning withArbortext Publishing Engine 6.0.Please refer to this Customer Support Bulletin:

If I Print Composed to a PDF driver, I get graphics.If I Compose to a PDF File, I don't - none in any graphic format.Sound familiar?And thanks for those with more data on PE and huge docs!John T. JarrettBAE Systems | Arbortext version 5.4 | LOGSA XSL-FO v 1.5

For those of you who will be presenting at PTC/User this year, congratulations!If anyone is interested in *not* using PowerPoint to prepare theirslides, I have an XSL-FO stylesheet that I put together as I assembledmy slides last year. It takes standard DITA concept markup as inputand produces PDF that is visually indistinguishable (to most eyes,anyway) from the PTC/User-supplied template.Of course, there are differences. The results you get with thisapproach will be more consistent and less work. You'll just have totake the bad with the good. 😉I'll be updating this to match the template for this year, as well asworking on smoothing out some of the rough corners that remained afterlast year's work. If anyone is interested in trying it out, orhelping out with feedback and the like, please let me know.-Brandon 🙂

Hello, Long time I haven't been active in this forum.....Does anyone has experience in the integration of Opentext Livelink (especially the Enterprise Publishing module) with Arbortext Editor? Any reference (good or bad) is welcome. Thanks in advance for your help! Kindest regards,Hans J Bigalke(Strasbourg, France)

*"Real-Time, Mission-Critical Publications with Digital Media Publisher*"*Presented by Paul Nagai, Nagai Resources**Date*: Saturday, 27 February 2009, 9:00-10:30 AM Pacific/US*Location*: Online via GoToMeeting . You must RSVP to receive theGoToMeeting invite.*Cost*: Free and open to all who wish to attend.*RSVP*: ">https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/462827346<https: www.123signup.com=" event?id="jqjxg">*Topic*Come see how a financial company has used Arbortext Digital Media Publisherto reduce time-to-market for publication deliveries to worldwide processingcenters from one month to near real time. Leveraging existing Arbortextinvestments and expertise in XML and related technologies, the systemprovides an end-to-end electronic publishing solution fully supported by asingle vendor. If you missed the PTC/User conference last year, this is yourchance to see one of the outstanding presentations we were treated to!*About the Speaker*Paul has over 19 years professional experience

This is a question from a co-worker:In our VB6 program, we're opening Arbortext Editor and loading an XML doc using the Epic.AclSingleUse COM method. At this time we're also passing in various string variables. We now need to pass in a COM object to Arbortext Editor to be used by Arbortext (via ACL) at various times during the editing process. Is there a way to do this?The code we're using looks something like this:Dim aclSingle As Epic.AclSingleUseSet aclSingle = New Epic.AclSingleUseaclSingle.Execute ("$varname=" & thisVarname & ") 'string variableaclSingle.Execute ("$varname2=" & thisVarname2 & ") 'string variableaclSingle.Execute ("$objectvarname=" & objectVarname & ") 'a COM object variable if possibleaclSingle.Execute ("edit -newwindow " & " & xmlFilename & ")

Is anyone aware of how to use something along the lines of %userprofile% within the Toolbar.prf file? Example: Current line reads as follows... ToolbarUserItem: -2;C:\ptc\Program\Macros\Import_from_Illustrator.jpg; Want this to be something like this instead... ToolbarUserItem: -2;%userprofile%\\Application Data\PTC\IsoDraw\Macros\Import_from_Illustrator.jpg; Any ideas?

Maybe I am mistaken and don't know what I am doing (a good possibility), but it seems like wild cards (*) in substr don't work very well when searching for element names. I am trying to search for any elements that contain a given substring in their name, such as "-xyz". What is the correct syntax to use for this in ACL?For instance, if I were looking for any element that contained the substring "-xyz" in the element name, how would that oid_find_children(), or whatever, function read?As I have stated before, I am no ACL expert, nor do I play one on TV.________________________________

The entity list has to do with which characters show up in the characterentity dialog for fastest access. As the author uses various specialcharacters, they get recorded here on the assumption that the author maywant to reuse. And we initialize the list with a short set to beginwith. The pub caret processing instruction tells the Editor where the caretwas when the document was saved. We use this to put the caret back tothe same location when you reopen the document. If the pub caret ismissing, we just put the caret near the top of the document. John Dreystadt Software Development DirectorArbortext - PTC734-352-2835-

Hi,I think I must be overlooking something simple..... again....My list items after a nested list are starting back at 1 like a reset has happened, but I only reset the counter at the begininng of the list.Example:(a) list item(b) list item (1) nested list item (2) nested list item(a) list item should be (c) the XML is coded correctly, because the screen displays it correctly with another FOSIWhat am I forgetting to check? I feel silly this should be a simple 101 FOSI coding.Thanks Ellen

Hello Again,I get the following error message when I try to preview the document.[A30040] ERROR: Infinite loop detected. Please check FOSI for recursive savetext/usetext combinations.What I've done is set up my XML document and the style sheet then I close it. I open the XML document in a text editor and change the starting tag to chapter. When I open the document in Arbortext and insert a TOC, then try to preview, I get the error message. According to Arbortext, TOC is still a legal tag after title. When I delete the TOC tag, the error message goes away.Curiouser and curiouser.Ginger

I can not open the ISODRAW application when I am not connected to the interenet. I get a message that states: "License request failed for feature ISODRAW". A previous moderator mentioned the order of NIC cards. The order of the NIC folders does not change wether or not I am connected to the internet. Ho do I resolve the issue? I need to be able to use the application while not connected to the internet.

A couple of weeks ago, apparently I fixed something that wasn't broken and don't have a clue what I did.Clicking File | Compose | PDF File, the down arrow next to Stylesheet has gone grey on me.I can no longer choose from half a dozen stylesheets on the PE. The Config File down arrow still works. It is there in the Print Composed dialog box and works fine.Can anyone tell me what I did to make THAT happen? Or, better yet, how to make it give me the ability to select back?Unfortunately the PE Config.pdf wasn't helpful. Thanks, John T. JarrettBAE Systems | Arbortext version 5.4 | LOGSA XSL-FO v 1.5

I was experimenting with some of the suggestions from my last question about changing the starting element and I saw some things in the XML markup that made me curious. First was this line, . I was wondering what it means. I think it has something to do with an entity list but I don't know what. Second was the following:<chapter>I am specifically wondering about the Caret1 reference. Any ideas?Ginger

Hi, We have the scheduler and the agent running on seperate boxes. when we schedule a job it fails. The error that is logged by the server is 1. "Job missed a heartbeat." 2. Job completed. Job Name: 085f5b10-70ec-4163-aff0-d97f3f556806.job Status: PingTimeOut Reason: Job missed a heartbeat.

Hello , I'm relativly new to the arbortext editor and have a task to find a way to access the editor from an other program to open a xml document, display it and access positions in the document through xpath-expressions. At the moment I am working with an evaluation copy of the arbortext editor, it takes a moment at the company to get a license key, but the app is used in the company, so that should be no issue . I am developing in C#, as it is used through the project. In my program workflow, the end user gets presented a list of comparison results, selects one, and a arbortext editor window shall be opened with the document, called from another open program I am working on. So far, I have found out, that I can add the editor ( epic.dll ) as reference. From there I have several classes and methods I can use, but somehow I am missing some examples or documentation how to use the exported classes and methods. Are there some examples how to use those classes, apart from the provided sa

I have a multi-volume tech manual (milspec) that uses a FOSI to produce PDF. I need to support cross-volume links for both editing as well as PDF generation I also wantt to produce multiple PDF files from this content.Currently I'm configured with a single hubfile that links all the chapters together and indicates where the volumes and parts will fall. With this my writers can produce and valdiate the required xrefs to link to data through out the entire tech manual. This satisfies the need to valdiate the links while auhtoring although it is slow.Note that I also produce an IETM from this content that uses XSLT to generate HTML and associated indexs to produce a purely electronic version. This is our current deliverable, we now want to add the PDF version from this same source and break the PDF up into volumes that have linked cross-references and bookmarks. I have a FOSI that is already configured to produce a single PDF file from this content.I guess my first question/issue is, is i

Adepters:We've got an email element that contains an address attribute. For example: <email address="abc@def.com<<a" style="COLOR:" blue;=" text-decoration:=" underline"=" target="_BLANK" href="mailto:abc@def.com">>DEF">mailto:abc@def.com>>DEF Company</email>Does anyone know how I can code the FOSI to make this active in a PDF? We're using PE 5.3, direct-to-PDF.I've tried FOSI coding similar to what we use for a URL link, but this doesn't work (even if I include mailto: or <charlist><indent inherit="1"><quadding inherit="1"><highlt inherit="1" fontclr="blue"></charlist><att logic="and"><fillval attname="id" fillcat="link" fillchar="address"></att></e-i-c>Dave Hintz

Hello,The DTD that we are using is loaded on the server. Our publishing engine that process the XML file needs the DTD to be loaded on the server and wants the server path in the SYSTEM idenitifer of DOCTYPE. Something like belowrather thanCan someone guide me which option in ArborText should be changed so I have XML file pointing to update the DTD on server and have the server path updated in SYSTEM Identifier field.Karthik

Available for immediate downloading from PTC's support site is theArbortext 5.4 M030 release. In addition to bug fixes, this release adds Windows 7 support for thefollowing products:* Arbortext Editor* Arbortext Architect* Arbortext Styler* Dynamic Link Manager* PTC Server connection* Arbortext Adapter to Oracle CM SDKIf you want to know all of the details about this release, please checkout the release notes. If you have any questions about the releaseschedule, please reference the PTC Product Calendar at: <">http://www.ptc.com/company/tl/index.htm>

Hi all,The editor is giving us an error message that "supTag is not allowed in Ttag", but it is allowed with our DTD and it shows up in the insert markup dialog box for the user to pick. I have looked at the FOSI and the DCF file to see if those might be changing the behavior, but I have not seen anything.version 5.2 M020Any ideas?Thanks, Ellen

PTC issued TPI 146734 today which specifies Windows 7 certified support for Arbortext 5.4 patch M030. What surprises me is this additional information: "Windows 7 support is not planned for earlier releases of Arbortext Editor, Architect, or Styler." Does anyone else find this a little short-sighted? We're first moving to Arbortext 5.3 in June (tied to the level supported in our CMS). Seems like we'd be in trouble if our company upgrades everyone to Windows 7.Has anyone tried 5.3 in Windows 7?Dave HintzSiemens