Arbortext

Hi, allWe are a publisher in China, we are using arbortext 3b2 paging software which has old parallel port encrypt dongle, we want to change our old parallel port encrypt dongle to USB encrypt dongle, we have more than 30 dongles to replace.How does it cost? To whom, we should contact in China?ThanksGeorge

Hi,In Arbortext Editor 5.2 version, the ACL function com_attach("Sepe.EditSupport") returns a non-zero handle, but in 6.0 M100 version, always returns zero. How can I solve this problem in version 6.0?

Hello all,For details about this maintenance release, please check out the release notes:For Arbortext Editor/Publishing Engine/Styler/ArchitectFor SPR Fixes in the releaseIf you have any questions about the release schedule, please reference the PTC Product Calendar at:http://www.ptc.com/cs/product_calendar/PTC_Product_Calendar.htmI'd also like to take this opportunity to remind users that this is the last MOR for 6.0. Standard support for 6.0 will be ending on April 1, 2015. Thank you,Pushpinder Toor, SLM Solution Manager

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I have been confused for a few days. If I publish a bookmap into PDF with my self-defined style-sheet, the book-title and the front-matter will appear twice! They will appear at the start of the book (It is correct), and appear again at end of book (It is not what I expect). However, if I publish the bookmap file with default style-sheet, the result is correct—they just appear at the start. I try to adjust the style sheet many times. It seems I didn’t know where to solve it.I don’t know how to control it – how to remove them from the end of the books. Can somebody help to answer it?

We recently went to new machines with Editor 6.1 installed and when we createa PDF from Print, Print Composer, or Publish to PDF, the text in our graphics is no longer searchable in the PDF. We haven't, as far as I know, ever in the last 10 years needed to make any setting changes other than in the paths section. I have tried changing the cgmprofile in the advanced settings to no avail based on other forum posts but doesn't help.Any ideas?

Hi,I am working on a stylesheet and I noticed that my HTML output has very narrow columns for the tables, when I checked them I noticed that the value for width is set to px. In the source it was set to picas.Arbortext Editor XML<tgroup cols="3"><colspec colname="col1" colwidth="12.80pi"/><colspec colname="col2" colwidth="12.00pi"/><colspec colname="col3" colwidth="13.00pi"/>Styler HTML Output <colgroup> <col style="width: 12.8px; "> <col style="width: 12px; "> <col style="width: 13px; "> </colgroup>Obviously, this conversion of units is way off. I am hoping there is a fix for this issue in Styler. Any ideas?

Does anyone know when / if PTC plans to add this to Arbortext? Or what version, if they already have? I couldn't find anything in a search.

I know, I know.... noob question - but I'm not an ACL person, and I'm about crazed out- on trying to find a simple way to lift/extract all of the 'figure' tag contents in an XML file (Mil-Std Tech Manual DTD - Need to create a list of figs by id with titles and graphic boardnos).Was trying the REGEX route, problematic (too many 'workarounds' required - remove all line returns), then looked to XML parsers, (too hard, too long to learn it). It's a long walk down the google rabbit hole to not find a really easy solution to this...Then I thought... "HEY" (I actually said this out loud in the office, disturbed some folks)... With all of you Arbortext Wizards (capital W) out there, doing magical ACL stuff; someone's got to have an ACL command in their pocket to simply 'find' all instances of an XML tag - so that I can 'mark' them, and copy/paste them out somehow, no?Lastly (related Q), is there a 'cheatsheet' out there in Arbortext land of commonly used/abused ACL commands/command strings? C

The ArborText Editor always adds a line return after an XML comment in the Edit view.Can this be changed by using the stylesheet or in a configuration file?

Getting an error in AT Editor 6.1 when trying to print a simple enough XML document.The error window states "editor.exe: segment violation (signal 11)".When I pull up the editor_err.log file in my Users\TEMP folder, it reads this:PTC Arbortext Editor (Build R61M010-339) terminated unexpectedly at Thu Sep 25 14:18:18 2014:editor.exe: segment violation (signal 11)Current ACL statement at "C:\Program Files\PTC\Editor61\packages\main\_winev.acl":71: 71 [1] returnACL function traceback at time of error:#1 print::modified_print() at "C:\Program Files\PTC\Editor61\packages\main\_winev.acl":71Local variables of active function:$p1=0$p2=0$o1=(-1,0,0)$o2=(-1,0,0)I have no ideas what could be going on. The XML document I'm trying to print is extremely simple:<!DOCTYPE OUR CUSTOM DOCYTPE HERE><searchList><row><searchTerm></searchTerm><context>printOnly</context><description></description><highlightStyle><style type="highlight"/><

We've received word that some members of our user community are not making use of Arbortext 6.0's autosave feature (ie, "write recovery file every X minutes") due to the belief that it does not allow for an unlimited number of undos. This, to us, seems to make very little sense. The documentation we have found does not seem to confirm it our suspicions (that there is no coorelation between these two features) so figured I'd ask here, in case anyone knows for certain.Thanks!

I am wanting to add an image to my cover using styler. I would like it only to show when I choose the profile OM and set my language to ru. I have created a UFE for it and created a condition for itXPATH expression (//servicemanualmap/@xml:lang="ru") is true andXPATH expression (//servicemanualmap/@otherprops="Op_Manual")When I publish I do not get my desired result.See attached image in styler. I must be missing something.Bryon

This is such an obvious topic I was surprised by the lack of information in the Styler manual, help files and on-line. It seems like a really obvious topic to me, but I could only find a single reference to counting the sheets and/or graphics of a figure in the Arbortext help file documentation. "Counting Sheets of a Figure in Styler" which is basically a FOSI topic, and "Coding FOSI support for sheet count".Is there an equivalent topic showing how counting sheets and/or graphics can be done within Styler itself?Ideally, the styling should be able to recognize when there are multiple graphics/sheets in a figure and output the Figure number, title, followed by (Sheet 1 of n), thus if there are multiple sheets/graphics in a figure it should output something like "Figure 1. Name of Figure (Sheet 1 of 5)".

Hello everybody!OK, I've been working with oids in Arbortext Editor to implement a navigation algorithm through the document using Java and ACL, the first stage of my project was only related with navigation, however, now I'm making changes in the document, which means, I'm inserting new tags in my docbooks. I'm having a problem which I identified some weeks ago; in order to execute the navigation I generate a map using a list created with java and all I do is navigate through the list, the list contains oids corresponding to every element inside the document, and the idea is to update the list everytime that changes are made in the document, however, I saw that when I insert a new tag the oids of some of the elements change, not only the which one of the modified tag but instedad the following tags/nodes, this force me to REMAP the document, which it wasn't a big problem until I have to execute this navigation several times in another functionality that requires to navigate and change

I must have missed an earlier post on TECHWR-L (remember them?) about their"Fast 5: The Hitchhiker's Guide to XML Authoring" hangout. Oh well, youwould have ignored it until this reminder anyhow, right?Here is the description of the event:In this hangout we'll explore the business side of XML including if yourcompany needs to migrate to it, preparing for the journey and ensuring youget every penny out of the investment. We hope you can join us onWednesday, October 8th at 12PM Eastern Daylight Savings Time (EDT) for thisevent.Here's the event page:

This is such an obvious topic I was surprised by the lack of information in the Styler manual, help files and on-line. It seems like a really obvious topic to me, but I could only find a single reference to counting the sheets and/or graphics of a figure in the Arbortext help file documentation. "Counting Sheets of a Figure in Styler" which is basically a FOSI topic, and "Coding FOSI support for sheet count". Is there an equivalent topic showing how counting sheets and/or graphics can be done within Styler itself? Ideally, the styling should be able to recognize when there are multiple graphics/sheets in a figure and output the Figure number, title, followed by (Sheet 1 of n), thus if there are multiple sheets/graphics in a figure it should output something like "Figure 1. Name of Figure (Sheet 1 of 5)".

Hi,Basically I just want to know whether anyone has created an Import Map Template to import MS Word files into Editor S1000D modules? Is it possible and how difficult is it when compared to creating a map template for Docbook?Thanks!

I'm facing a problem in one of my XUI windows when I try to load a file from a certain directory; my dialogue is a loading file window and the idea is to load the file from a directory specified by a path loaded with a 'Browse..' button, the problem I'm having is that every time I load certain paths I receive the "[A11316] Unexpected argument error"; I could see this only happens when the directory contains a blank space in the name of any of the directories including in it.I hope anyone could explain me alittle more about this A11316 error so I could handle it.Paulette 🙂

Hi,I am working on a Styler stylesheet and I noticed that my HTML output has very narrow columns for the tables, when I checked them I noticed that the value for width is set to px. In the source it was set to picas.Arbortext Editor XML:<tgroup cols="3"><colspec colname="col1" colwidth="12.80pi"/"><colspec colname="col2" colwidth="12.00pi"/"><colspec colname="col3" colwidth="13.00pi"/">Styler HTML Output: <colgroup> <col style="width:" 12.8px;=" "="> <col style="width:" 12px;=" "="> <col style="width:" 13px;=" "="> </colgroup>Obviously, this conversion of units is way off. I am hoping there is a fix for this issue in Styler. Any ideas?Many thanks,Greg🙂

Hello there,I would like to know the way to resize images in XML document by using Arbortext Styler.Although I know the way to adjust the size of images in Arbortext Editor with attributes (width, height etc...), I am not keen to use this way.The images are too big in the document at the moment, so I would like to make them look small through a stylesheet.Could you give me any tips please?Thanks a lot.Tomomi

I have a question regarding the sequence of numbering in Styler. I have a description Data Module to which I have added Division to levelledPara. I styled figure as a Formal Block. Problem 1: With each division the figures base numbering restarts at 1; I would simply like the numbering to run continuously throughout the document. At the moment, due to this, I have added the previous division number to the gentext, thus Figure 3-1, Figure 4-1... I would like to do without this.Problem 2: In the case of foldouts the numbering does not continue, it restarts, so I currently have Figure 1 (which is not a foldout), followed by a foldout Figure 1. The foldout element seems to be interfering with the base numbering.Any suggestions?

We use ACL COM commands com_attach etc. to open Word files and run Word macros. (Arbortext 6.0M050 64-bit; Win 7)# open named word file and run macro: h - Word COM handle; docsh - Documents collection; doch - doc to open[; docapp - Application property; docapprun - Application.Run macro method] h=com_attach('Word.Application');com_prop_put(h, 'Visible', -1);com_call(h,"Activate");docsh = com_prop_get(h, 'Documents');doch = com_call(docsh, 'Open', word_doc);if (word_macro) {docapp = com_prop_get(doch, 'Application');docapprun = com_call(docapp, 'Run', word_macro);}com_release(h);} Process is (1) "write" 2 versions of a file with Tracked Changes (-ct changesapplied | original); (2) XSL transforms 2 versions to WordML (Word 2003 XML Document) format files; (3) open 1st Word file and (3) run macro that compares it to reject-all "original" version (believe me, you don't want to write an XSL that transforms <atict:> tags to WordML). Result files showing Tracked Changes are sent to outs

I have a publication module which contains references to xml documents.From the Publication Module, how to create a book?What is the FOSI methodology to display in a book, the content of the XML documents using the references of the Publication module?

Hi Adepters,I have a strange behaviour with Epic 4.3.With this DTD :It does consider that <doc><intro>stuff</intro></doc> is not valide./doc [A11155] final tag encountered. More content is required (approximative translation)I do not encounter trouble with <doc></doc>.Somehow the presence of <intro> makes Epic unable to consider that one branch of the | can be empty.Thanks for any insightChristophe LefebvreLexisNexis France