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Hello All,PTC has started the process of planning for face-to-face meetings again in January. Are there particular topics you would like to see on the agenda for Arbortext?JoAnnJoAnn T. Hackos, PhDPresidentComtech Services Inc.710 Kipling Street, Suite 400Denver, CO 80215joann.hackos@comtech-serv.comskype joannhackos[Comtech-Logo]

OK, here's one for y'all:Before I contact technical support, has anyone seen this formatting error message?Runtime error formatting document: main:Error=[A11460] Formatter error on page -1.! Too late for \patterns. This is an internal error and is probably not recoverable.The document doesn't preview, and no cache files are created. FWIW: \patterns would appear to be TeX.This started happening yesterday. I tried the document and FOSI from the previous day, which had formatted without problem, and I get the same error with them. Which suggests the problem is not in the docs or FOSIs. 😞I am running 6.0 F000.Thanks for any insight! (BTW: How is the font size in this email?)Suzanne Napoleonwww.FOSIexpert.com"WYSIWYG is last-century technology!"

Hello All,After few hours of battling to configure datamergeusing the examples supplied with the distribution, i enventually figured out what the problem is. I was running Arbortext 6, 64-bit and trying to connect to a 32-bit ODBC source (I run 32-bit office).I must have missed the point in the docs where this is pointed out. Reinstalling 32-bit Arbortext solved the problem. Has anybody figured out a way to use the 64-bit arbortext and access 32-bit ODBC sources?Best reagrds,Mark

Hello All,To set up for datamerge, I need to add a datasource to the .dcf file. I could do this quite easily in docbook. Problem is I need it in a DITA topic (Technicalcontent). I can't find anything on how to do this on the web or in the help.- Can you use Datamerge in a DITA topic?- What do I need to do to configure my site to do this?I am using Arbortext 6.Thanks for you help,Mark

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Hi, I have a question regarding S1000D LSAR Driven Compilation. I'm using a maintained SNS structure for a ship: * when I select a Doc Code from the drop down list, I select thefirst entry, which has a "2 37 AAO 0 My System Name".* I get a dialog box "Add figure 2 37?"* Then a second dialog box "Creating DMC in linked CSDB Project:My Project Name" but here's where it goes wrong. I don't get the SNSmanager.* A third dialog box appears and I'm getting an error whichstates "The Document code does not exist in the SNS structure." I'm trying to figure out what this means. Does this have anything to do with the "S" Airframe/Engine setting inthe IPPN or is there another cause? I am led to understand that "S"means chapterized and is not Airframe/Engine specific? I figure thatchapterization has to be working because I can manually Add Figure viathe Parts Catalog Manager Menu and create a 941 Data Module via the SNSManager. Greg

Hi,In my instance.acl script, I'm trying to test for the existence of an external variable and source the appropriate file depending on whether or not it's defined. This is how I'm trying to do it, but it doesn't seem to be working:if ($main::ENV["XPS3_HOME"] != ") { source $XPS3_HOME\XPSDocs\entities\commonStartup.acl} else { source $XPS_HOME\XPSDocs\entities\commonStartup.acl};That is, when "XPS3_HOME" is not defined, I'm getting an error during startup indicating that at line 2 it's trying to use an undefined variable. Anyone know the correct way of doing this test?ThanksDaveSiemens

Hi all,I have a textbox in a XUI. There are cases when the textbox entry should be empty. That textbox string or empty value is populated to an attribute in the document xml. When deleting a string in the box the value returned to the change event listener is the last stored value. It seems to not recognize when the last character or a full string is deleted from the box, which should have created an empty textbox/value essentialy. Any recommendations? I'm using JavaScript with the XUI. I claim to not be a XUI or interface expert.Thank you,Bryan

Hi All,We're excited to announce Arbortext 6.0 M020 is now available for download! This maintenance release has several new enhancements that will improve usability and experience.Just to name a few (complete list available in the Release Notes):Editor:Updated version of IsoView (7.2 F000)JVM updateNew DITA category in PreferencesTable borders enhancementsA new Technical Information Application used for authoring content in conjunction with the new Service Information Manager and Windchill Service partsStyler: Simon Taylor, the Product Manager, has some great blog entries that go into more detail about Styler improvements. Check them out on PlanetPTC Community!Generate EPUB outputImproving accessibility of HTML and PDF outputSupport for multiple indexesImport:Updated Arbortext Import TutorialAnd as always, SPR fixes!Thanks,Pushpinder ToorArbortext Product Manager

Hi All,We're excited to announce Arbortext 6.0 M020 is now available for download! This maintenance release has several new enhancements that will improve usability and experience.Just to name a few (complete list available in the Release Notes):Editor:Updated version of IsoView (7.2 F000)JVM updateNew DITA category in PreferencesTable borders enhancementsA new Technical Information Applicationused for authoring content in conjunction with the new Service Information Manager and Windchill Service partsStyler: Simon Taylor, the Product Manager,has some great blog entries that go into more detail about Styler improvements. Check them out on PlanetPTC Community!Generate EPUB output Improvingaccessibility of HTML and PDF output Support for multiple indexesImport:Updated Arbortext Import TutorialAnd as always, SPR fixes too!Thanks,Pushpinder ToorArbortext Product Manager

The Arbortext APP (3B2) users' meeting for 2011 will be held on the 9th and 10th of May in London, England.Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher (APP), formerly known as the 3B2 Publishing System, has provided the core development environment behind the solutions to many complex and extreme publishing requirements for over 24 years.This event gives you the opportunity to:Discover the potential from new and updated Arbortext products.Learn new technologies and APP (3B2) application methods.Have your Arbortext and APP questions answered.Meet with other publishing professionals and Arbortext / APP (3B2) specialists from the world wide community.Version 11 of APP will be released later this year and is making its debut to an international audience at this event.(The event programme will be delivered exclusively in English. However, some of the conference speakers and hosts will be able to converse with you in German, Spanish and French.)For more details on this event, please visit www.tformat

Hi, When I copy a simple table from MS Excel into an S1000D document anduse the Edit/Paste Excel feature, I get a table of the correct size andnumber of rows, but the table is empty. I've painstakingly followed the directions for using the Excel importfeature to the letter, but the result is the same. Looking at the source all the entry rows are empty. Suggestions? Greg

I have just upgraded to Arbortext 6.0 M010. We use an aliasFilePrintPreview command to execute an ACL script when the Print Preview icon is clicked on the Edit toolbar.This all worked great in Arbortext 5.x. I have checked the editmenu.cf file to make sure that I have the correct command for Print Preview and I have also check the editwindow.xml file to verify the toolbar command. It still says FilePrintPreview.If I modify the editwindow.xml file to execute the script it works fine but that will change it for the entire application and I need it to be doctype specific. I have also tried to alias the id Toolbar_Preview but still no luck.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Has anyone had any experience using Arbortext to output to the "Folio Views" and "NXT" formats?

Recently, I been asked a few times about the Advanced Print Publisher's integration with Styler and the Publishing Engine. I have also heard some incorrect discriptions of how things work, so I thought I would take this opportunity to clear things up and give you some extra information too.As you should be aware by now, Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher (APP) is a print coposition engine. It is a very flexible and speedy one which can produce really high quality pages without needing any manual intervention. It was first integrated with Styler and APE in 5.4 as a technology preview, becoming production ready in the M060 release. The Advanced Print Publisher was integrated for a number of reasons, but its language capabilities (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Hebrew, Arabic and so on) and the increased typographical and layout capabilies were key.In Styler, you now have the choice of using APP, FOSI or XSL-FO to generate print pages. For the integration, we spent a great deal of time

We've been using the Windchill Workgroup Manager for a few months and have been feeling the pain more and more of not having the checkin tied to our publish macro.The situation: We had a publish/save macro. Basically it exported eps files and saved the currently open iso file to a network location. When we moved to workgroup manager I took the save portion of the macro away, but it is still needed to export.Is there a way to call out the two different checkin functions from a macro? Or is it possible to 'fool' the system and call two functions from a toolbar to occur at a single button push?

Hello Adepters,I'm trying to make some decisions about our import/export future roadmap and support. Specifically, I am trying to get a sense of how many people use the import/export feature for Word 2002.I'd be interested to hear from you if this is a version you currently use in production for your import/export of Arbortext content. I believe there is a low volume of customers, and this may lead to sunsetting that specific version's support.Thanks for any feedback.-------------------------------------------Pushpinder ToorArbortext Product Manager

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Hi AllI have one user out of6 with IsoDraw + CaD Process 7.1 m050 who keeps getting a lost license error.We're running a license server for all PTC licenses and don't see errors with anyone else so I think its something with his install or PCHave checked the log files and Windows event manager, tested his network connection and see no errorsIts a Windows 7 32bit machineHas anyone else seen this and can maybe give me a few pointers

Hi,New user here, I have lots of questions, and I welcome pointers to existing resources.I have Arbortext 6, Windhill 10, new to DITA and SMA.I am working on test files, a basic SMA map with a few short topic types inserted.If I want to refer to one model number in several of the mapped topics, what do I reference and how to reference it? I seem to be missing something.I tried entering a value for the modelno in the SMA map; then, from a topic in the map, attempt to conref or xref to the modelno in the smamap, but the modelno does not show up in the Resource Manager as available to reference.Where am I going wrong?Thanks!Lisa A

A new release ("build") of Arbortext IsoDraw & IsoView 7.2 M010 is coming out. List of fixed bugs/errors can be viewed below.IsoDraw 7.2 M010:IsoView 7.2 M010:

Hi all,We create documents using Arbortext Editor and css with Syler and have a request to have tables in PDF with rounded corner.The quick way we are trying is just create a rounded rectangle SVG and use that as a background to the content, putting the table in front of it. It is easy but not seems to be the WAY...Also we think on creating the table as a Scalable Vector Graphics(SVG) object, and include that as an external-image in our XML document. SVG supports rounded corners, and XML supports SVG. It seems to add more complexity...So we are searching the WAY as an specific or modified function on the Styler to programe the CCS to publish directly rounded corner tables. Does anybody know if it is possible and/or whow to do it?Thank you!!!!

My company is beginning an Arbortext implementation so I am exploring ways to convert Pagemaker and InDesign files to Arbortext. I'm looking for some advice on the best approach as well as any software recommendations.Thanks in advance,Tim

Hi,I'm trying to code a field name index based on the element <field> withchild <field_name>. I've made "custom" indexes before, but only in FOSI. Thedoctype already has an element based "standard" index (<indexterm><primary<br/>...).I can output the field index contents only if I do not set userule="2". WhenI do that, it fails. Am I just missing something or is there a limitationI'm not aware of when using a .style rather than a FOSI in this regard?-- Paul Nagai