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Hi all,I have a custom XSD and am I styling for PDF using the APP engine in Editor 6.0 M10.I am looking for a way to store things like numbering and other context related information in attributes. An example of this would be storing the font family and size as it is applied by the stylesheet in the attributes of the element being styled.This will mean that an external system which receives the XML data would be able to tell that a title was "printed" in a certain font and size.I have had a look at using xpath in genetated text, but have not been able find a logical solution. I assume one would need to capture the generated text for numbering in some sort of variable and then write that variable's value into the attribute of the relevant element.I would appreciate a pointer in the right direction.Thanks,Duan

Hi All,Yes, Hal Trent gave a presentation on our catalog developments at the PTC World conference this year (2011).The conference slides are at skype joannhackos[Comtech-Logo]

We are new users of Arbortext 6.0 and Windchill 10, and are using the SMA application for our product manuals.As far as using graphics in our SMA topics, would it be better to put our graphics into a library in Windchill, then insert them into our Arbortext SMA topics, or to create an SMA Reference topic that is essentially a library of graphics, then insert conrefs to the graphics in that "library" topic?Thanks,Lisa A

Hi All,When using the document map in AE 5.4, I thought that there used to be a way(shortcut key?) in older versions of Arbortext to collapse a entire 'level'of a document (not the whole doc), rather than trying to do it using theselect 'all' in the tags dialog box of 'Collapse / Expand Divisions.' Case in point - (large docs of 1000+ pgs) After I do some raw XML editingand update the doc, it reopens with every single tag expanded fully(arrggh). Which means that, to again make it reasonably manageable fornormal navigating, I've got to manually go through it and close down thesections until it is organized in a less user 'hostile' way (by Chapter andWork Packages). Didn't there used to be a way that you could do some mouse or keyboardaction over the vertical lines of the doc map and close it down by 'levels'rather than by discrete tag names? Curious - maybe I'm just engaging in a little late summer, Labor Day Friday,daydreaming with this one. But if anyone has any appropriate tips/trick

This is the third posting on the new functionality coming in the M020 release of Arbortext Styler 6.0. This time I'm looking at EPUB which, over the past year or so has been an increasingly populer request to output from Styler. I guess some of this is generated by the smart phone and tablet explosion we’ve all been experiencing, but it is also generated by a desire to ship content electronically. There are a number of e-book formats but the most popular format we’ve had requests for has been EPUB.EPUB is a standard published by the International Digital Publishing Forum which describes both the content format, which is based on XHTML, and the packaging of the content in a zipped format with stylesheets and other supporting information. You can find more information on the Wikipedia or at the IDPF.As I've already mentioned, EPUB content is encoded using XHTML and styled using CSS - and Styler already outputs those formats. Packaging up the content for EPUB is a different matter so we'v

Or have you executed some other strategy for trapping, reviewing, and thensending the messages Editor creates for the conversation with PE?-- Paul Nagai

I'm using Arbortext Editor with Styler 5.3 M130. I am looking for info on configuring the tri-pane HTML output from Arbortext Editor (File > COmpose > for Web), and I'm not finding much. Where would be a good place to find out how to do things like the following:- Split up XML topics into HTML pages- Getting the left-pane TOC to work (it's blank except for a non-working search box)Are these Styler items? DCF config items? Something else?Thanks,Mark

Adepters,Is there a simple way to run Editor in batch mode to perform a complete composition task silently?I've used something like this before to get a quick print: editor -c "print allpasses force wait" myfile.xmlbut what I really want is to be able to specify a profile to be used and to compose to PDF.We have Arbortext 5.3/6.0 and use a Publishing Engine.Thanks,Martin BushbyKongsberg Maritime

Read Simon Taylor's column (it's really the "Styler" tag, but he's the main contributor so far).He's just getting started, but he's got a lot of good information going in there about what's coming down the road for Arbortext Styler. So far it's just a peek, but the promise is there. I know I've been glued to the posts.We, here at Single-Sourcing Solutions, are thrilled to see the PMs starting to write up stuff -- and I know Simon's been itching to get started. I've known Simon for a long time. He's an amazing PM. Interested in solving real problems. Interested in talking to customers and finding out what they really need. He spends his days thinking about putting words on "pages" and he's damn good at it.Here's my advice:Read the posts.Give him your feedback and comments, if you've got 'em.It'll make the product better for all of us!

It seems as though I've earned the "Bill Shakespeare" badge for...as I was told...For starting your own blog and writing 10 blogs posts related to CAD, PLM or PTC products in general, here is your “Bill Shakespeare” badge. Feel free to display it proudly on your PlanetPTC Community badge.That's 10 posts here on communites.ptc.com.That doesn't include the nearly EIGHT years of blog posts about Arbortext and Dynamic Publishing on the Single-Sourcing Blog here:http://blog.single-sourcing.comThat's a lot of blog posts. The Single-Sourcing Blog is where you can find:The list of Top Arbortext ResourcesOur release notes feed (to help you keep up with current releases)Our series on Common Arbortext Questions There's a whole series of Arbortext audio podcasts available on the blog too! The PubWright Podcast is a series of audio podcasts — interviews with people all across the Arbortext community, and experts in the dynamic publishing field.Communities can't be contained and there are lots of fo

I edit graphics after inserting JPGs in Arbortext documents. When I reload the modified graphic, I always get an annoying viewer which I have to close before being asked to insert and seeing the new graphic. Is ther a way to shut off this automatic viewer?I checked Advanced Preferences but did not find the option. Is there a command line option? I use Arbortext 5.3.Thanks - Mike

This is the second post giving updates on Styler 6.0 M020, this time looking at the indexing enhancements we’re making available in this release.Historically, Styler has only had the ability to create a single index. From M020 you will be able to have lots! So, if you want a general index, a part name index, a contributor index and a keyword index all in the same document then you can achieve this in M020.Index definitions have been moved out of Styler’s menu system and into a new Index definitions tab. All the properties and settings you are used to now appear as properties and settings of new named index definitions which you can create as part of your stylesheet. As with other definitions in Styler, you give your index definition a name by which you can refer to it when you want to use or target it.A new feature of these index definitions is that now an index can be scoped. This means you can create a separate index for each chapter in your book, each article in your multi-part publ

Oops, I meant SGML to XML not vice versa. The idea should work either way, if it works.

How to convert sgml dtd to xml dtd.Are there any tools to make this converision?

Good afternoon.I use a version of Arbortext IETP Services Version 4.4 M010 (006)In this version I have problems with links to hotspots in the legend.With the latest version they have changed.I have more than a week trying to understand the mechanism of how they work.And I had a few questions. Maybe someone knows or knowssomeone who can answer me this question.Firstly the file figurePanel.jspxFor legends exist the following code<lbs: translate id = "translatedLegend"xml = "# {figure.currentFigure.legend}" pub = "# {index.selectedPub}"xsl = "# {index.styleSheetPath}" isoview = "# {index.iso}"dir = "# {index.directory}" />As used index.styleSheetPath descriptSchema.xslIn descriptSchema.xsl imported a lot of styles. The question of what piece of coderesponsible for processing the tag XREF. I used to have style xref.xslNow what happened to him that without him. If anyone has information on this issue.I would be very grateful.Andrey Golovatyuk

I just upgraded to Arbortext 6.0 M010. We use Distiller to generate PDF files. In an ACL I have the set usedistiller = on andset pdfprinter = "Adobe PDF". In Arbortext 5.x when I had the usedistiller option set to "on" the option to select a publishing config file would go away or at least be disabled. In 6.0 it is still an active option. Is there anyway to disable this? I've checked the DCF but haven't had any luck.Thanks in advance for your help.

Hello Adepters,I wrote a function to wrap/unwrap a range in a special element. To wrap the range I use the range function range.surroundContents(element). To unwrap an element I replace the wrapped range by the actual range. Now in the function if I don’t turn track changes off the whole range is marked as added which I don’t want. If in the wrap/unwrap function I turn track changes off I lose all track changes I had in the actual range.How do I wrap/unwrap a range in anew element without losing track changes?Thanks,-Samah

Is version 7.2 available for IsoDraw CADProcess? Is it difficult to get the update?

Hello all, I am working on setting up PE 5.4 M100 on a dev server to begincomposition testing. I have several custom SGML DTDs and FOSIs that I have recompiled for5.4, and a few custom XML DTDs with FOSI stylesheets. Since I had 5.3 running on this server (using Tomcat 5.5), I installedthe 1.6 JRE and Tomcat 6 (the distro from the media), then PE. I got everything to come up fine, but I cannot get my custom doctypes toshow up under the composition information. I checked the DCOM config for the service account we run PE under,everything's fine there. Set APTPATH to point to the 5.4 install tree,and set my APTCUSTOM to point at the custom directory containing mycustom doctypes (under the doctype directory, with a catalog file at theroot). I restart PE, it comes up fine, but when I open the index page and checkthe composition information, under the doctypes it lists the localdoctypes for the PE install tree but no custom doctypes from theAPTCUSTOM path. I looked through the help files for

Now, in order to capture the HOST ID (used to be Server ID, I think, withthe old licensing application), you run cpu_id.exe (be sure to pick theright one for your architecture ... there is an x86 and an x64 version) anytime you want. It is not wrapped inside of the now old License Administratorwhich means you can execute it before an install. This makes even the longer(and somewhat variable although in my limited number 6.0 license requestseven that seems to have stabilized) return time on a Flexera license moot... if you're able to plan even just a little ahead.Specifically, you can run cpu_id.exe on a server well before a plannedinstall window, or even have IT do it if you don't have hands-on, and stillgenerate a license file to be rolled up with the installation itself.Similarly, you can distribute the cpu_id.exe to a set of users ahead of aninstall window and generate all of the licenses once you have everyone'sHOST ID ... in one session with the license app on ptc.com.-- Paul Naga

Hi all,I just ran into a hiccup installing / configuring a Publishing Engine 6.0m010 server. Apparently one or more of our PE licenses is/are floatinglicenses which require a license server to host them. Apparently a phonecall with licensing (too late today) on Monday is all it will take toconvert the licenses from floating to fixed. (Support was a little confusedregarding why they would be floating ... and, in fact, I *think* some are,some aren't.)This came as a surprise to me because in the < 6.0 world, we have alwaysinstalled our PE licenses as fixed ... directly on each server. (We arerunning a license server for our floating Print Composer licenses but havenot used it for anything else.)I *could* install a license server for the 6.0+ world however it is not howwe want or intend to run (why add a moving part?) so I am hoping to avoid it... especially as I go into our vulnerability assessment.FWIW: It took 13 minutes for the Flexera licenses to generate and arrive ine-mail.-- Pau

Adepters:We're using AE 5.4 M100 in a system that uses XIncludes extensively in elements similar to topic maps with nested topics (but NOT DITA). If I ensure that the document referenced by an XInclude is writable (that is, I look at the status with Windows Explorer and verify that it is not read-only), and then open the parent container element that is not writable, I'm having limited success. Of 5 machines I've tested on (3 XP and 2 W7) only one of the XP machines allows me to edit the referenced XInclude element. In all of the other cases, AE says that the XIncluded content is read-only. In fact, I have two of the XP machines set up side-by-side with identical environments, and one allows me to edit the XIncluded content and the other does not. The only way I can edit the XIncluded content consistently is if I also make the parent or container document writable. This is not desirable.So, this one has me stumped. It reminds me of a problem we had years ago when we used file entities

In the next two or three weeks I’ll be posting some more information about the forthcoming features provided in Styler in the M020 release of Arbortext 6.0.There were a lot of new features we wanted to provide in 6.0 and we managed to fit a lot it, but some features had to wait. So we’re taking the unusual step of adding some new functionality in the M020 release to bring our customers some extra, important capabilities.Each posting over the next few weeks will focus on a specific area of new functionality to give you a good idea of what’s to come.Firstly, we will look at the improvements we’re making to indexing. Traditionally, Styler documents have had a single index. We’ve now added functionality to allow users to create multiple indexes in the same document. You can also scope indexes to your XML hierarchy too, providing indexes scoped to chapters, sections and so on.Next we will look out our new EPUB output. EPUB is becoming the standard eBook format and we’re happy to be able to

Dear All tformat ltd and DATACOPY publishing solutions gmbh, are pleased to announceAPP World 2011 which will be held in London on the 9th and 10th of May2011. This Arbortext APP (formerly 3B2) software users' and industry event will beheld over 2 days and contain managerial sessions and technical workshops.The event will also give you the opportunity to meet and share experienceswith other users' and industry professionals from around the world. Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher (APP), formerly known as the 3B2Publishing System, has been driving solutions for complex publishingrequirements for over 24 years. 2011 will see the release of APP version 11which will be one of the main event topics.For more details on this and our previous users' meetings, please visit

I'm working with XML files (using the NLM journalpublishing 3.0 DTD) in Arbortext 5.3. I'm modifying a set of ACL functions that are used to find author/date