Arbortext

Hello all, I don't have many issues when working with specific assemblies from pvz files in isodraw. However, if I want to get a simple illustration of an entire assembly that contains assemblies (i.e. a picture of the car itself), I get the memory full crash and burn. Understandable, since it's trying to open all the assemblies. Is there an easier way to get a view of the "car" than cherry picking through the assembly in productview to know which parts to turn off in isodraw? I have to believe there is.ThanksBryon

<<listitem><para>text<randomlist><I am here<para>text</para></listitem><listitem><para>text</para></listitem><listitem><para>text</para></listitem></randomlist></para></listitem></randomlist>I'm trying to test if the top randomList has listItemPrefix="pf01" and ignore it if it doesn't have the attribute setThis doesn't work, I thought it would take me to the first randomList ancestor of listitem parent../ancestor::randomList[1][@listitemPrefix='pf01']Thanks for any help!

Hello everyone,I need to make some modifications to scripts found in the%ARBORTEXT-INSTALL%\adapters directory. Typically, you can copy the OOTB scripts into the custom folders without having to modify the original. However, this folder doesn't seem to work the same way. I can certainly modify the originals, but that would mean replicating the modifications on every client.Is it possible to replicate these scripts from adapters in the custom folders?Thanks,-Jeff

Hi.I haven't quite been able to isolate a sequence of events that appears toremove a callback, specifically a paste callback associated with a specificdocument (that is, it's not a global paste callback).I would like to be able to use ACL to test whether a callback is assigned.It appears that I can ask by removing it and depending on the return code Ishould be able to tell, but then I'd have to reassign the callback. Which Iguess isn't that big of a deal, but it seems messy.Is there a simple, direct way to test for a callback?Also ... has anyone run into disappearing callbacks before? What causesthem to disappear? The document is not closing/opening. It does lose"focus" to another document that I create and delete, but it never goesaway.Thanks!-- Paul Nagai

I copied a doctype folder from our 5.3 server to our 5.4 server.The FOSI seems to be working on 5.4 except the graphics aren't visible in the editor. The graphics are hosted on a third server, and the paths are stored in an entity file and referenced by an attribute on graphic. The .ent files are referenced in the XML file.If I link directly to the graphic, it shows up so I know the 5.4 server can "see" the server where the graphics are stored. (The XML files are on the same server as the graphics.) Plus we handle graphics this way for most of our 5.4 projects. Just wondering if anyone has come across this, I didn't find anything in the forum.Thanks!

Hi,Does anyone know how to map the Arbortext Adapter to Documentum/WDK's selfreported version (Help > About in the WDK window) of PINE-1043 back to theArbortext main version/release?I think this should be (hope this is) 6.0 m090 but suspect it may be 6.0m010.-- Paul Nagai

There is an interesting an 'undocumented' function in ACL that will tell youjust about everything you want to know about variables that have been set inyour Epic session. From the command line type "eval_array($ENV)" (without the quotes). Thiswill list all the environment variables that are set. To see othervariables, type "show vars". Lynn

In Jan 2014 LOGSA issued an updated DTD to support authoring of Army TMsusing MIL-STD-40051-1B or MIL-STD-40051-2B. I downloaded this DTD the other day and it does not parse. Has anyone elseencountered this? I have parsed the LOGSA DTD with Oxygen 13.2 and 15.0, Turbo XML 2.4.1, XMLSpy 2011 and 2014 (64 bit), and Epic 5.4 and 6.1. I get slightly differenterrors with each, but all in all the DTD does not seem to be valid. Many thanks Lynn

Could any body help me to do define the style sheet for the following requirement.We are creating the PDF user guide using BookMap template by creating topics and grouping in DITA Map.My requirment is I don't want DITA Map title should be published in PDF when I use these DITA Map inside BookMap. Please see the attached supporting document for reference.Thank you in advance,Rajesh

How to extend line in IsoDraw? Is any shortcut Key for extend line?

Good day all,I have a .cgm file which contains illustrations related to manuals. It has lot of nodes in it. My aim is to create an single boundary for the entire illustration up to its extents. some of the lines are not joined correctly in the extents. If i apply generate contour, i am not able to get an proper boundary. Help me out in this situation. Thanks in advance.

Hello,I'm evaluating ArborText 6.1 (Editor with Styler) with a 14-day trial license.Can it export to HTML? I don't see that option anywhere.Thanks!Chris

Hello,when I go from Edit view to Map document display, all elements are shown as expanded. I’d like Arbortext to expand only selected elements. It’s possible to tell Arbortext which elements expand by using Architect and by modifying the *.dcf file, but I don’t have access to Architect. Do you know how to modify the *.dcf file without Architect? Could you please tell me which *.dcf file modify and how to modify it?Thank you

Hi,I need to create an external file from an xml document that extracts the content of certain key elements in a listing that is then processed for another use. I have this working in my FOSI stylesheet after following some instructions in the PTC Help Center and it extracts the data I want to an xxxx.exp file in the same folder. So far, so good. But the .exp file always takes the name of the parent element that the coding is used in, e.g. name.exp.My problem is that I have several xml documents in the same folder and all of them need to create this .exp file. Since the style sheet always gives the file the same name no matter which file it is, they overwrite each other unless the writer is quick to rename his exp file.Is there a way to name the .exp file created specifically either using FOSI or some kind of ACL so that I can add a sequential number to the created file name or make them specific to each document instance in some way?KM

Sorry for the very basic question. I am trying to figure out how to globally remove a markup xml tag/element from our documents. The find and replace feature doesn't seem to be able to do it. It can only find and replace text. And the comand line and edit features will only allow me to delete markup one at a time. I cannot even seem to figure out a way to search for specific tags. Can anyone help me? Thank you!Dina

Hi,This applies to the AAD stylesheets that were installed with Arbortext 5.3, CSDB M060. I found that single warnings and cautions were not being output as bold text (which they should be according to the spec). I changed the xml template to fix this in the S1000D PDF output. the xsl file is foWarningsCautionNotes.xsl, the template name is at the bottom of the file and is: t_display_single_warning_cautionThe line is: <fo:block padding-before="2mm" padding-after="2mm" font-size="12pt">I changed it to:<!--Modification added font weight--> <fo:block padding-before="2mm" padding-after="2mm" font-size="12pt" font-weight="bold">Greg🙂

Arbortext 5.3, CSDB 4.3 M060I have a problem with the ndash entity in tables. I've entered the ndash in between para tags in a table, yet for some reason they randomly de-construct throughout the document in various locations. These are the completeness errors related to the ndash and an unrelated jpeg notation error. (Note - I am aware of the jpeg error I get that all the time, that comes out of the box.)So, the following is an example of the code which generates an error on validation:<para>&nd;ash;</para>I have no idea why the additional semi-colon is appearing in the middle of this entity. If I fix this (delete and replace it) and CSDB Save the document is valid but if I close and re-open the document and re-validate I find the error has re-appeared.Basically, I'd like to use the ndash but I think I'm going to have to remove it since it appears to be unstable.

Arbortext 5.3, CSDB 4.3 M060I ran into a problem, in one table I selected the entire column and set the para containing the "0" to align right. The issue is that it does not align right in the S1000D output even though the colspec is clearly set to align="right:<table colsep="1" frame="all" id="tab-0006"rowsep="1" tocentry="0"><tgroup cols="3"><colspec colwidth="12.50pi"/><colspec align="right" colwidth="6.50pi"/><colspec colwidth="18.80pi"/><tbody><row><entry><para>Something</para></entry><entry><para>0</para></entry>Yet in another table I have a different result, and the column containing the 0 does align right when it is printed to PDF, the difference is that in this table the entry has an attribute align="right set on it:<table colsep="1" frame="all" id="tab-0005"rowsep="1" tocentry="0"><tgroup cols="3"><colspec colname="COLSPEC6"colwidth="12.50pi"/><colspec colwidth="6.50

In the "Arbortext Content Pipeline Guide", an example jar was mentioned few times, but I was not able to find it. Anyone knows where to find it ?? Thank you.

I am adding a large amount of entitity declarations and referencing them from a DTD. The compile fails with "Size of value string block exceeds maximum capacity of 524280 bytes.Document type definition is too complexCompile failed - rc=64"Just what capacity does this error refer to? I have tried various settings in the SGML Declaration, but the 524280 byte limit in the error message never changes. Is this an internal Arbortext limitation?In the past, we have simply upped various capacity values in the SGML Declaration and got the desired result. But I can't see how to make this limit budge.Any insight would be greatly appreciated.Thanks. Debra Lee

Hi,Offhand does anyone know what the actual text "format" the IsoDraw Macros are in? ANSI, DOS, UTF-8? I find that if I edit the .ism files with Textpad they can no longer be read by IsoDraw afterward. I'm forced to edit them in Notepad which is not really ideal.Greg

We are currently creating an .idr file in Isodraw. We then export it to jpg and to cgm. The jpg is so you can see what the end result looks like and the cgm is put in a different folder where the manual is located. We then create a link in editor to the cgm, so it can be used in the manual. It seems that when you publish, every cgm is then converted to eps. Would we be better off using the idr files, instead of creating cgms??thanksBryon

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Hi Adepters:I've recently taken over Arbortext duties for a colleague who retired (Dave Hintz, whom some of you may be familiar with), so I'm still fairly new to some of this.We recently moved some of our users from AE5.4 M171 to AE6.0 M100. One of our 6.0 users has an intermittentproblem when copying and pasting content from one AE window to another. The headers in all ofour documents should look like this:< !DOCTYPE xpsDocument [< !ENTITY % textents PUBLIC "-//Siemens PLM LMD Tools//ENTITIES XPS Project Text//en_US" "text.ent">%textents;< !ENTITY % idsents PUBLIC "-//Siemens PLM LMD Tools//ENTITIES ids//en_US" "ids.xps.ent">%idsents;]>However, sometimes when this user pastes content in, graphic entity declarations for the graphics used are getting added to the header as well:< !ENTITY xps.id.604919 "&xps.library.root.teamcenter-10.1.2-en_US;/graphicLibrary/tc/cpd/scenarios/phase4.png">I cannot duplicate the problem, and it only happens some of the times wh

I misread the help. It says to perform Save As after running doc_flatten. I personally think it is also good to do it before, because of the lack of Edit > Undo for this.