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Can Arbortext 5.4 and Arbortext 6.0 be installed and run on the same PC without technical or performance issues?

I'm working on a large scale project trying to repair and use our entire PTC project. I'm working on learning and maintaining aspects as far up as Windchill System Administration to as far down as stylesheet control. My company is using information from our mother plant in Japan, who sent us a version of their custom folder since ours wasn't tailored to their products. However, their acl files didn't translate over properly, so their comment lines are in gibberish and sometimes their command lines are off, too. I've put in support to PTC, requested translated files from Japan, contacted my own IT and scoured the internet for a way to correct this translation issue. This is critical for us, since many aspects of our project our stuck until we can understand what they did and how they did it. I think that this is something programmers run into often, and would know how to fix, but that's a guess and I don't know any programmers. Any help would be much appreciated. ThanksI attached an exa

When producing a PDF from EPIC 5.2 the PDF shows lines around the graphics. Sometimes a full box sometimes just one or two sides. When the PDF is printed the lines do not show (which is good) but these PDFs are also used on the web (which is bad). I cannot recreate this same scenario when inserting the same graphic in Word, or FrameMaker, or when using XSL stylesheets and Antenna House to produce the PDF. Which narrows the issue to EPIC. Any Ideas to help would be very much appreciated. Windows 7Version 5.2 (February 6, 2006 (MPL-2037)Graphics are uncompressed TIFF imagesStylesheets: .fos filesAcrobat 9.0 PDF (have experimented with multiple job options - no difference inoutput.

Has anyone come across parser problems when it comes to Arbortext singleton tags not being properly closed?All of our singleton tags such as <tableref> are closed only by a > sign, instead of using />. The parsers we use are constantly complaining about this.Is this Arbortext XML Editor specific? Can it be changed?Ashley

Has anyone noticed differences in how text wraps to the next line in version 6 versus older versions? I'm seeing many differences between outputs from 5.3 and 6.0. I can't account for anything in the markup causing the difference. Has anyone else noticed this?

When viewing CGMs in IsoView, at the default size, which sizes the graphic to the viewport, the raster portions of the image is all shuffled. Horizontal portions of the image is "shuffled". If you zoom out to about 50% of the viewport size the graphic looks correct, but none of the text is legible because the graphic is zoomed out too far.   here is how the image is displayed:       Here is a similar portion of the image, how it is supposed to look: (the drawing of the plane is a raster image imported into the CGM, while the black arrows are vector elements in the CGM.)   All the vector elements are positioned correctly, but the raster portions get shuffled depending on the zoom level. This is using the 7.2 evaluation copy of IsoView and being used in IE7. The problem also occurs in IE8.   This problem only to select computers, but all running the same OS (Windows XP). The graphic will look correct on some computers, whereas on others it will be incorrec

hi, I use arbortext editor 5.4, there is a "rotate" attribute for table cells. Does this work? What must I put in there so that the cell contents actually rotates? (-90, yes, 1 ?) for example, the whole word must be rotated 90 degrees back, but not like this...elpmaxemany thanks,edward

Hi all,Having just updated one of our standalone workstations to Arbortext Editor 6.0 Build 040, we've noticed that the Completeness Checker now gives us errors for empty tags - which is a problem. (We've still got other stations running 6.0 Build r60m010 without this problem).Background - We're a small shop doing DoD Military XML Tech Manuals using US Army LOGSA DTDs and Stylesheet filesets. During tech manual development, many of our tags (particularly parts data) have empty tags (immature parts data during TM development cycle), but the tags themselves (and some attributes) are required by the DTD.We try to have everyone here diligently use the completeness checker, to ensure that our content is tagged as error free as possible. This is particularly helpful with newer, inexperienced TM developers. Everything runs cleaner that way, from our end and gov't receipt - almost singing Kum-bah-ya.Problem: With Arbortext Editor 6.0 Build 040, the Completeness checker is now flagging hundreds

Hello,I need to upgrade my 5.1 editor with the 5.2 version, but it seems no more avalaible on PTC download product session.Do you know how can I get it?PS I don't want to install greater version cause they use local language installation and I need the English version

We have an image that shows up on a ufe that prints a cover sheet in the pdf. Is there a way to suppress it so I can print two versions of the pdf one with the ufe present and one with out. That way we can send it to the printer and have them print it on pre printed covers.Thanks Bryon

Hi Experts, I learned that Arbortext editor 6.0 supports Documentum 6.5. I am wondering if it supports Documentum 6.7. Arbortext's Documentum support components are packaged in Documentum DocApp format which needs to be installed via Documentum Application Installer (DAI). The D6.7 stopped supporting DAI. D6.7 only supports DAR format of DocApp which can be installed using the new installer DARInstaller, a part of Documentum Composer. Does Arbortext Editor have DAR format of DocApp packages? Thanks Brian

An article on the technical and product evolution of Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher (formerly the 3B2 Publishing System)English / Italian(Article content as published in the UK ISTC Communicator Journal 2010)

Hello,I have some publishing profiles set up in the servicemanual.pcf file in our custom directory on our Publishing Engine server. We just added another user to the system (for the first time), and her Arbortext editor does not "see" the .pcf file. She does have read access to the custom directory. She is using a floating license. Any ideas on what is preventing her access to theprofiles?Arbortext 6.0, Windchill 10.0Thanks,Lisa AntellTempe AZ

Our publishing people still use Epic CD-ROM Composer 4.2 and have a usage question that I cannot find in the documentation or PTC's knowledgebase.When creating a new project or defining the consumer customizations, the wizards have various default values for folders, names/title/descriptions and other settings. We find that we need to change nearly all of them to meet our requirements.Can we change the default values so that our people do not need to type so much?Is there an editable configuration file with the default values?Of should we just create a template project and copy it for each new project?P.S, We do intend to move to Digital Media Publisher (DMP) or PTC's latest equivalent.Our publishing guys are simply comfortable with CD-ROM Composer at this time (with ArborText Editor 5.3)Gerry ChampouxWilliams InternationalWalled Lake, MI

I am trying to add profiling to text in a table, we are creating a parts catalog and have a requirement to add part numbers to the catalog that some of our clients do not need to see. So I thought that this may be an easy way to show and hide content. When I created the table, in order to see the text centered aligned, I removed any elements from the text. When trying to apply this profiling it seems that you need to have a element. Can I show or hide Columns instead.ThanksBryon

hi We are using ISOViewer for viewing cgm images in our e-commerce application. We are planning to build Android app. Android by default does not support viewing of cgm image. Can ISOViewer be used for viewing cgm images? If yes, can someone explain how to integrate ISOViewer with our app?ThanksRavi Kanth

We keep getting an error for a specific attribute. Invalid value "" for attribute "monographstatus" Even though I have set a default value to "none" in the DTD, the editor does not actually insert the attribute in context until you manuall go into the Modify Attribute box and set the value to none. Only then will it actually show up in the editor.I was wondering how can you can automatically set the value (acl) of the attribute if it's blankI don't know how do to acl but it would be something like this:IF attribute "monographstatus="" then value=noneIF attribute "monographstatus="anything else" then don't do anything.Make sense?OR - is there a way for the Editor to set the default values in the editor.Hope this makes sense. Any help is appreciated.Thanks, Darquise.

Hi all,I need to install Arbortext IETP. i have dowlloaded installation for Arbortext Aerospace and Defense and there should also be installation for Arbortext IETP but in folder Server installation\Arbortext IETP i have only .war file! No setup.exe or similar. How can I then run IETP installation? I have also tried to extract it but it doesn't help.Thanks to all.

We want to start inserting QR tags in our paper documents to provide an online link to them. Do we need to mess around with inserting a PNG file into the document or does anyone know if Arbortext has specialized support for QR tags?

Hello,I have experimented with creating PDF bookmark entries.Arbortext Editor truncates the length of the bookmark entriesafter 65 characters.There is no difference, if the PDF bookmarks are automaticallycreated or created by the stylesheet (Direct PDF feature).Does anybody know how to change this behavior?Is this a feature or known bug?ThanksJürgen SchnurrTechnische Dokumentation--

Today's Service Lifecycle Management and Arbortext sessions theme has been around poor service performance. Everyone has a poor service experience. If you want to start a conversation at lunch tomorrow with the person sitting next to you bring it up. Service experiences can be a great conversational starter. Whether it is your car being maintained and serviced, appliance being fixed or maybe you sat on the tarmac for one minute too long due to the door being stuck (ok that is happening to me a lot lately).The first thing I learned in marketing 101 is if your customer is happy they will tell one person if they are unhappy they will tell a minimum of eight. That was 17 years ago when social media didn't exist. Now they just tweet it and it goes to hundreds, maybe thousands.What is the cost of poor service experience to the company? Poor customer satisfaction when they lose faith in their investment and the ability to maintain and service their product. Is the measurement loss in brand va

In Annotation you have the text reference to introduce an automatic text in plane.How to create a new text reference like meterial or mass, to integrate the information in a text box?

Today at 2:30 Mike Sundquist, PTC is presenting on the topic of  Product-Centric Technical Information in Gatlin A-3. I asked him what his presentation will cover, take a look and I hope you can join us. Video Link : 3047

I just arrived in Orlando for PlanetPTC 2012. This is my 6th PlanetPTC conference and as always it is still honor to attend.  This year brings new excitement with new role marketing for PTC’s Service Lifecycle Management Solutions. I am excited to meet some new faces and of course say hello to old friends. We have a wide variety of activities planned this year around Service Lifecycle Management and Arbortext that you won’t want to miss. Here are a few highlights:Solution Expo:Come visit us in the Solution Expo where we have experts on Technical Information, Technical Information for FAD, Technical Illustrations, Service Parts, Warranty and Contract Management and Service Center.Usability LabsSign up to provide us feedback on Arbortext Editor, Windchill Service Information Manager,  Windchill Service Parts, Service Center and PTC Tech Support website redesign.Highlights of Monday agenda sessions you won’t want to miss:1:30 in Gatlin A-3, PTC Service Lifecycle Management Strat

Hello!I created two types of hatching in the file "Hatching_new.iso". One of them is "Type 1" - copied from the template file "DefaultHatchings.iso" in Arbortext IsoDraw 7.1 M070 (located on the path: C: \ Program Files \ PTC \ Arbortext IsoDraw 7.1 \ Program \ Patterns), a second type of "Type 2" - created new and, thus, does not work. Why is hatching "Type 2" does not work properly when hatching a closed object?