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My company is in the process of migrating from Active CGM to IsoView to display our intelligent graphics in an IETM. When we preview our converted graphic we noticed that the hotspots and labels disappear (are no longer displayed, but links remain active) when we pan and/or zoom in or out on a graphic. We're working with files that have been authored for ActiveCGM and then converted to IsoView. Has anyone seen this type of issue before? We're using v7.1.50.09 of IsoView and are held to DADMS compliance (Departement Of Navy Application and Database Management System), so may be able to upgrade to 7.3 M010 if this issue is addressed in that version. Any help/information is VERY appreciated!

Hi AllHow does one reuse Mathcad data in Arbortext Editor?If one has done calculations in Mathcad, it is unprodcutive to use the Editor's Equation Editor to key in the calculations again...Thanking youTshediso

Hi, I'm brand new here and needed to ask a question on configuration of Isodraw.My question is this. Is there a way to make icons in the Pallette window change color when picked? Sometimes it's difficult to see what choice I've made since it all looks the same to me. Another question would be to ask if you can change the background color of the drawing area. The white background at times causes me eye strain and changing the color to a darker color with bright lines is a lot easier on my eyes.I've tried to contact PTC and suggest this as a change for the next version, but cannot find a way to contact them for suggestions.Thank you in advance for any advice you can give me.Bill

Can anyone help this guy out with his PE bug? 🙂

Hi, all...We have a large collection of potential text entities that we'd like to be able to import into any DocBook document with Arbortext. For example, for cross references to the many books in our library, we have 5-letter book IDs. If the writer uses an entity for the book ID instead of writing out the book title, we can change the book title and the writer does not have to fix it in multiple places. We need to be able to maintain a file with these entity definitions and import these definitions into any DocBook document. We would also need to reimport from time to time to reflect changes to the book titles. How can we do this?ThxSteve FogelInformation Architect, Oracle Database Information Development

Hi, all...Wonder what's going on. In a short DocBook 4.5 document in Arbortext, I've got a <figure> inside one of the list items in an <orderedlist>. In both the Document map and editor panels, I can select the whole ordered list and it stays selected, but if I select the figure inside the ordered list, it highlights momentarily and then unhighlights. That is, it does not stay selected. Anybody know what's going on?? One caveat: we do have a customized docbook DTD, but I don't see how that would make a difference.Many thxSteve Fogel, Information Architect, Oracle Database Information Development

I have a customer who is trying to open an xml against a dtd and he continues to get the error:C:\Users\lvian\Documents\spec2200_2011.1a\DTDs\cmm.dtd : Line: 217 Column: 66Expected quoted stringI looked at column 66, line 217 and it says this: <!ENTITY % ISOtech PUBLIC "ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES General Technical//EN" >Looks like the string is quoted. Does anyone have any ideas on what this could be?

Hi,Now we use DTD of S1000D issue 3.0. And we would like to create DM according to issue 4.1 with xsd.We don't have PTC Architect. We connected dm xsd, but editor is not able to choose elements andmessage "Insertion of text not allowed in this context" appears.Can you help us?Thanks

All -The agenda and registration for SLM Technical Advisory Group has been posted on the section on the top navigation bar, scroll to the Technical Advisory Group, the agenda and registration link is in the bottom section.The agenda items are confirmed and the timing of each will be available shortly. We will have a few topics in a general session for everyone and then will breakout into two rooms for like items.I looking forward to seeing you.Anica[cid:image004.jpg@01CE265F.91FF0140]

Adepters:Those of you privileged to go to the annual Arbortext meetings might be able to answer this question: When will Arbortext Editor/PE support XML Schema 1.1? I believe the standard is in final draft stage as of 12/2009. Some vendors, such as Saxon, already support many features of the standard.If there have been any announcements of this support, please let me know.Dave HintzSiemens

I have a macro that needs to read the text of callouts.I can't find anything that lets me read the text.I've found callout.text_prefix and callout.text_postfix but can't find a function to read the actual text itself.Is there one?

If you are currently using the SDL DITA CCMS (Trisoft/LiveContent Architect) with ArbortextPublishing Engine for composition, or if you are considering this, I would be grateful if you couldcontact me off-list for a short discussion.thanks,MartinMartin BushbyPrincipal Information DeveloperKongsberg Maritimemartin.bushby@kongsberg.com

Hi I am using Isodraw 7.1 build M070.While I open and save the file from a location I do not find any problem.But When I use Save As option to save the file to 7.0 or others the file gets saved in the different location (This location corresponds to the previous navigated saved as location).The same problem persists when I try to export also.I do not have the batch file for import and export also as in Isodraw 7.0.So Could anyone help me out of this problem and even share the batch file (import and export) for Isodraw 7.1.

Hi,In ACL, how to replace in a string variable, the backslash (\) by the slash (/).David G

The problem I am having is the mainbooktitle does show the tm element when publsihing to pdf. We had a style sheet created for us. They add the text to the cover using a _ufe with a x-path reference (/RDStyle/ResolvedMap/servicemanualmap/booktitle/mainbooktitle) in it. My limited understanding of this is that it is going to publish whatever is seen in the mainbooktitle element. So I should also expect that the tm element should also be displayed?any help would be greatThanksBryon

I am working on an issue that I couldn't find a thread for in the archives. Using Editor 5.4 M100 on Win7 with Print Composer.Anyway, I am trying to generate a PDF of several chapters containing one or more figures (illustrated parts breakdowns). One of the requests is that each figure generate a PDF bookmark underneath the corresponding chapter. Simple enough, no? No...The requested bookmark is the content of child element title, of each figure, which is suppressed, and emitted as gentext after the display of the illustrated parts explosion. Turns out, if your FOSI suppresses element content, you cannot auto-generate a bookmark from that element in the DCF.I cannot emit this title (even at 2pt in white) because the current coding forces a new pageset for the illustration, and since the illustration is the first displayed item in the figure, this goofs up the ordinal pages (one page for the title, next page is illustration, next page part list, and so on).Rewriting this would be a time

The problem I am having is the mainbooktitle does show the tm element when publsihing to pdf. We had a style sheet created for us. They add the text to the cover using a x-path reference (/RDStyle/ResolvedMap/servicemanualmap/booktitle/mainbooktitle). My limited understanding of this is that it is going to publish whatever is seen in the mainbooktitle element. So I should also expect that the tm element should also be displayed?any help would be greatThanksBryon

Testing IsoDraw 7.3, F00 and would like to know if there is a way to change the default extension back to .iso versus .idr. Any ideas?

Hi,I have a problem with an ACL function.When I call this ACL fucntion in Arbortext, I have the following error message: [A11385] can't redefine function "funtion_name" since it is currently executing". Do you have an idea to solve this problem?RegardsDavid

Hello Everyone,I am working on S1000D Standards. I have create some Hatch Patterns (view the iso file attached).When I use these patterns it would be fine. Once I close the file and again open the same file I get the preview of the hatchings (view the attached jpeg file).Could any one please suggest how to get rid of this problem as I would be using this patterns daily.

Hello everyone,I'm currently working with Epic editor 5.1 and for a new project I have to work with Schema but it seems that Epic 5.1 is not able to parse XML file using schema (I tried with a version 5.2 and it works).Could someone confirm that it is not possible to work with XML Schema on Epic 5.1 and I need to upgrade my licence or is there any configuration, manipulation or anything else to do.Many thanks,Christophe

Just to clarify there are two events for Service Lifecycle Management:PTC Live Service Exchange: For service leaders seeking to transform their service organizations and achieve sustainable competitive advantage. (web site:

Today I'm facing a problem related with window size. I created an XUI window through an XML document which I called productButton.xml, but when I called the creation of the new XUI window, the elements inside the window doesn't fit with the design I would like to have. I'm using a tabpanel tag inside a window tag, I would like to know if any of you know more details about the size attributes for an XUI window. I was thinking that maybe there's a predefined size which doesn't allows me to personalize my metrics for my window. I called for the creation of my window since an acl script using the window_create command, something like this: window_create('xui',0x10,$doc)So please, if any of you knows some details about this issue I really appreciate your help and support.Best regards,Paulette Zorrilla

Hi everyone,Does the session below (from Anica's announcement a couple of weeks ago)replace the Arbortext Technical Committee meetings?*PTC SLM Technical Advisory Group scheduled in Anaheim for June 13 – 14,2013*Additionally, PTC is organizing a new dedicated user community to supportthe Arbortext technical information software users. Additional forums willalso be provided specific to Service Lifecycle Management (SLM)technologies such as warranty and service parts management, among others.Immediately following PTC Global Live, PTC will host advisory groupmeetings for 2 days – at no charge for existing Arbortext users – that willprovide product updates, roadmap discussions and topics that provided bythe Arbortext community. The dates are scheduled for Thursday, June 13 andFriday, June 14. The proposed topics and agenda will follow soon. Weanticipate that these Technical Advisory Groups will continue throughoutthe year. Please note we have a tentative plan to host a SLM CommunityRecepti

Would somebody at PTCUser.org please fix this? Looks like somebody whose user name is/was asbona is no longer employed at Terra XML. I get one of these emails every time I post to adepters.