Arbortext

Andy, I'd be willing to bet that the DCF file wasn't showing the graphic element.I had a similar problem when I went from 5.4 to 6.0. I would have thought the DCF file would carry over from versions as it is inthe DOCTYPE folder and not in an Epic path. Lynn

Hello,How how install Epic 5.1 on windows seven 64 ?sgilbert@sonovisiongroup.com

I have an old version of IsoDraw (from the Itedo days). I have upgraded to a new version of Windows and have tried to install my version of Itedo IsoDraw but it does not work. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks Garry

Hello everyone,The “Print Editor View” dialogin older versions of Arbortext (v5.4 and previous releases) on UNIX/Solaris contained a “Print Range” radio button group that included options All, Pages, and Selection. I have reviewed the current Arbortext 6 documentation for use of the “print” command with the “panel” option and Ihave not founda way to replace the new “Pages” radio button option with a “Screen” option. Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this via configuration changes or ACL?I believe I could just create a new menu choice that calls “print” with the “screen” option, but that is one more menu choice and UI change for our editorial staff and I would like to avoid that if possible.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.Regards,Tom

I'm hoping this will be an easy one, but I've looked into this a bit overthe years, and have never been able to figure it out.Our writing incorporates a medical spelling dictionary. This loads infine, and is specified in the dcf.The problem is we also have some internal styles that are gettingoverridden by the standard English dictionary. Specifically, ourorganization chooses to use "ie" and "eg" without periods. (The Englishdictionary corrects them to "i.e." and "e.g.")I've also tried to explicitly add "ie" and "eg" to our custom dictionary,but it doesn't seem to override.Does anyone know of a way to remove these from the standard dictionary, orsome alternative?- keith

Are there any 3rd party performance monitoring and/or metrics applications available for PE?Thanks,-- Brian Jensenbjensen@bluelid.com

Is there a way to run an xsl on multiple xml files with Publishing Engine?

We are facing an unusual issue, we have FOSI for showing generated text. It is working fine when we are updating existing tags, however, when we insert new tags then we are not able to see the generated text corresponding to those new tags. Also, we have observed that after inserting new tags, if we delete some text in some other tag and then undo (Ctrl+Z), we are able to see the generated text for the newly inserted tags.We have gentextautoupdate as "full" and gentextautoupdate as "on". Please advise.

Hi all,Wondering if one of you PTCers (or anyone) can help with the little trick that Jerry Tippie use to help us with... taking a Mil-Std DTD file and making the couple of 'tweaks' necessary to make it work for a basic FOS file that Arbortext won't throw up on - when opening an XML book file? Thoughts?Regards, Bob W. Bristol RI, US

Save this for your next bout of insomnia ...Made an interesting discovery upgrading from Arbortext m010 to m090. Wefound occurrences of the following Unicode character U+009D in our files. Iam setting up a hunt and destroy mission so I do not have exhaustiveinformation but it appears that they show up in our mainframe screencaptures. I suspect the characters have been there all along but thatprevious versions of Editor and Publishing Engine have gracefully (to me,perhaps buggily to Unicodologists) ignored them.We discovered them through FOSI formatting errors reporting characters thatwere unavailable in Courier New and that they were being replaced withArial MS Unicode. (No matter, formatting-wise, they have no output impact.)PE complains about something-or-other(157) and yes, the way to create thischaracter, in Editor, is to type alt-0157 using the number pad. Or, in mycase fn-alt-0157 using the in-laptop-keyboard-fn-number pad. If you knowwhat I mean.By creating an instance of this c

Hi all,In a TOC, is showed the first page where each title starts. I need to know the last page where the content of this title appears. Someone knows how can I do it?

Hi all,I'm doing a custom index using the APP. In this index, I need to display the titles, some element's attribute and the respective pages. For this, I'm getting this informations on the element's and save in a 'application.variables'. The problem is that the index I'm doing, is render before I do it. Is there anyway for I use the informations I've saved to update the index?

Has anyone ever used the fxNode? Some knows how to use it, or has any document about it?

Hi all,How can I use a global variable in the APP, for transfer an information from OnEnter to OnExit function?( I need to used any type of information, and not just string).

Hi everyone,Arbortext Editor is killing the illustration Notation. After placing a cgm-file the XML structure should show up as <!NOTATION cgm SYSTEM "cgm"> but all I can see is <!NOTATION cgm SYSTEM> (without "cgm"). Does anyone know why Arbortext is doing this?Any help would be great! Best regards from snowless Munich!Helmut

Actually Ed when the ENTITY file is declared in the instance whether usingthe DTD or the schema, the extra lines appear. But thanks for the idea. Lynn

I am about to scream at this. I have a series of text entities declaredthrough an external file. This has worked for a LONG time with no problems,now suddenly, when some of the ENTITIES display on screen and in the finaloutput, there are added line feeds. I have gone through the entity file and there are no extra line feeds I amincluding the ENTITY declaration for one of the problems along with a screencapture showing what Epic is doing. Here is the ENTITY declaration:<dtd.frag> assocfig IDREFS #IMPLIED changeref IDREFS #IMPLIED chap-toc (yes | no ) "yes" chngno CDATA #REQUIRED comment CDATA #IMPLIED delchlvl CDATA #IMPLIED frame (yes | no ) "yes" idref IDREFS #IMPLIED inschlvl CDATA #IMPLIED revno CDATA #REQUIRED security (uc | fouo | c | s | ts ) #IMPLIED skilltrk CDATA #IMPLIED tocentry (0 | 1 | 2) "1"</dtd.frag>'>Here the text as I copy it from Epic: <dtd.frag> assocfig IDREFS #IMPLIED changeref IDREFS #IMPLIED chap-toc (yes | no ) "yes" chngno CDATA #REQUIRED

Hello, we distribute our software with IsoView 7.0 (for reasons too in depth to go into, distributing a later version is not an option currently, nor is making installation optional). We have a customer that has Arbortext Editor 6 which fails is IsoView 7.0 is active on their machines. They have found they can get it back working by running Regsvr32 on their IsoViewX73.ocx but when they run our software IsoView always shows the text "UNLICENSED Arbortext Isoview".   What can we do to   A. fix up this customer's issue? B. prevent graphics in our software saying they are unlicenced when the customer upgrades to a later version of IsoView?   thanks in advance   Dave

Generated text may come from external files/applications or be built intothe FOSI itself. If from an external source there is usually some form ofcall through an <att><specval> combination to access the desiredinformation. There are also a couple of reasons why generated text may not'automatically' appear. First the 'full' or 'partial' auto updates may notbe turned on. Secondly, and I have this problem for my current document, itmay be too large for 'auto updates' to occur. If the file is too large youshould (and I get this with 5.4 and later) a message window stating the fileis too large for auto updating. Lynn

Hi,We are facing an unusual issue, we have FOSI for showing generated text. It is working fine when we are updating existing tags, however, when we insert new tags then we are not able to see the generated text corresponding to those new tags. Also, we have observed that after inserting new tags, if we delete some text in some other tag and then undo (Ctrl+Z), we are able to see the generated text for the newly inserted tags.We have gentextautoupdate as "full" and gentextautoupdate as "on". Please advise. I have tried it on the other forum (http://communities.ptc.com/) but have not got an answer yet. Also, my file is not that big.Regards,Pawan

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious here, but it seems like there should be a way for Arbortext Editor to validate all of the XML files that are referenced from the same map or bookmap. A Completeness Check happily reports everything is OK, even when referenced files have gross Context Errors. One can open a file with context errors from a <topicref> within a map, and the Editor simply either shows a red element where the problem is, or simply adds elements to "fix" the problem. It does not turn context rules off and report an error.Is there a way, through AE, the AE command line, or through custom ACL to check a related file set without having to open every file? Does this require the use of an external XML parser?Thanks!

I am attempting to customize the stylesheet for axdocbook for delivering a MIL-STD technical bulletin. The sect1-sect 5 titles need to appear as follows: 1.1 Section Title. First para element's content.In Styler, no matter what modifications I made to the para or title elements, the para will not render on the same line as the title. Even as an inline structure type.Does anyone have an suggestions for what I can try to make these section titles run-in or inline in Styler being output to pdf?

Got another question:Newbie Alert!! Using Arbortext 6.0 and C#:When the user saves a document, we want to perform certain actions on the saved data. However, the DocumentSaving event fires before the disk file is updated, so the event listener doesn't have access to freshest data; rather, the disk file represents the previous save. The documentation mentions cancelling the event and then calling save manually (ADocument Save), which gives you the opportunity to perform actions before and/or after the document is saved; this seems like a promising technique, but I can't figure out how to save the document in the event listener - sounds simple enough, but I'm not sure how to gain access to an object that is tied to the editing session and has a Save method. Can anyone help?Related question: Is there a way to cancel the ACL Save callback function?

Dear all,We are using Arbortext Editor 6.0 M080. We are using the _newline tag to create the new line inside the step. When it get publish to PDF and we are absolutely no publishing error in this. But, when we use the same _newline tag inside the hazardstatement tag we are receving the publishing error (NULL message). Could you please anyone help me if we should not use the _newline tag inside hazardstatement tag, then which tag need to be used to split the line.Thank you in advance,Rajesh

Is anyone using Isodraw 7.3 to highlight a line with a mouseover or click? If so what might that technique be?I grouped a set of lines in a schematic, applied a hotspot to the line, and when I enable the hotspots, and view within IsoDraw using IsoView I don't get much in the way of an indication. Lets say one clicks on the line, it flashes briefly and that's it.Animation doesn't seem to apply because I am not moviing or rotating the line. Also, the imported CAD dwg file does not have any ids for the lines that are imported. Should there be?Is there any way to get the line to highlight and stay highlighed?My thought is to export this to WebCGM later.