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I have a macro that writes filenames to a text file using fwrite.However, I don't want repeats, so want to check that the filename doesn't already exist in the text file before writing it.I use the fwrite command but can't find a corresponding read command. Is this possible within the macros?

Hi All,Using Arbortext 5.4, I want to set up a centralized zipped configuration. I have set up a deploydirectory, as instructed in the documentation, with the APTDEPLOYPATH variable pointing to it. Thesite directory in this deploy directory contains the siteprefs.xml and the custom.zip file. So farso good. Now in the siteprefs.xml file I want to point to the APTMENUFILE environment variable atour custom menu configuration file editmenu.cf. Let's say that this file lives under custom\lib.The documentation says "For any preference that has a path in it’s value, you can use a special %Scharacter in the path to represent the .aptcache\site\lib directory." Now that's fine, except thatI guess this refers to a compact installation, while this is a full installation and the zippedcustomization is unpacked to something like C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\PTC\Arbortext\Editor\.aptcache\zc\1.Does anyone know of a similar "special character" or other method that

Hiya all,Here is your Friday afternoon puzzler. Copy, set paste=mybuf, setpaste=default, paste behaves differently when the copy source is insideEditor instead of outside of Editor. 5.3 m110.Here is my "outside of Editor copy source" use case:1) Open Editor.2) Copy text from any source outside of Editor.3) set paste=mybuf4) Copy text within Editor.5) set paste=default6) Paste. This command fails because the clipboard is empty.Here is my "inside of Editor copy source" use case:1) Open Editor.2) Copy text from within Editor.3) set paste=mybuf4) Copy text within Editor.5) set paste=default6) Paste. This command pastes the material copied in step 2.I don't think the outside of Editor copy source step 6 should fail. Am I notunderstanding some feature-ness of named buffers or do you agree that thisis unexpected behavior?-- Paul Nagai

Are there any PTC classes for IsoDraw? I am interested in getting some training. I would be interested in both classroom or online classes. I have gone through the tutorials and I really think I could get more from a structured class.So does anyone know of any classes out there?Thanks,Keith Howard

Hi James,Is it possible (or on your road map for future features) to support aQueryinteracting with datamerge?-- Paul Nagai

I would like to add messages in some of my macros, but want them to stay on screen for a set period and then disappear rather than having to click on them.Can this be done?

Hello!I use Java (the plugin is made) for modifying the content of the opened XML/SGML files (Arbortext 5.2).How should I modify the color of the nodes (I mean programming mode)?As far as I'm concerned, the usage of _font nodes is forbidden (a-la <_font>text</_font>). At least it leads to errors in SGML.Then we should use processing instructions (PI). How should we create them?The standard Java DOM method createProcessingInstruction() does not work when we deal with SGML.I think that it's because of the different format of PIs in SGML and XML.Should we use Acl OID commands/functions (goto_oid, insert_tag)?But I have met the problem of incorrect cursor positioning after Application.messageBox execution in the onclick event handler.1)calling dialog via Application.messageBox(...)2)getting the first oid of the required node3)Setting cursor before the start tag via "goto_oid(oid,-2)".4) Trying to insert PI via "it _font" command. It leads to splitting textnode in fact.If I comm

Testing 5.3 on a virtural Win7 pc and I get the following error:[A12480]Arbortext Editor was not able to obtain a license for your use. Feature Arbotext Editor:unable to find and read license file. (have you run the License Administrator program?) I ran the License Adminstrator and there is a 6005.lic with the correct key in the license directory.I have reinstalled and changed keys with the same error.Any ideas? Thanks for your help.

When we have finished or amended each of our Isodraw drawings, we export a CGM version of the file for use by our authors.We never edit CGM versions of our drawings, they are just used as a convenient format to add to Word documents.We've found through experience that an old version of CGM works best for us - "Model Profile (ISO 8632:1992/Am.1: 1994)".But, because it is an old format, it pops up an error message saying it doesn't support things like callouts or object infos.I have a macro that creates the CGM files and saves them in the right directory, but it always pops up the warning message. Is there a way to suppress the error message?

Hi,Support has said that datamerge is working as designed by returning (as stored in the database) as and that it is up to me to convertmarkup from < to < on output via the XSLT. That conversation is ongoing.BUT if one of you XSL gurus knows how to do this, maybe I can leave supportalone.I have tried swapping the overall output method to text (that was a hailmary) and believe this is the "best" answer but it fails: <xsl:value-of select="translate(self::node(),'<','<')"<br"/>disable-output-escaping="yes"/>The following "works" in that it returns the string to Editor with a ! wherethere should be a < so the select and the translate are working: <xsl:value-of select="translate(self::node(),'<','!')"<br"/>disable-output-escaping="yes"/>All attempts to use the < fail with the following:FATAL ERROR:javax.xml.transform. TransformerException: Error reported by XML parser.ERROR:Failed to update query: (my query name)com.arbortext.

It looks like the stylesheet parameter has not been provided in the composition parameters array: you only specify outputFile please try to specify the stylesheet full path and stylesheet type as well. That is: the three required parameters to perform batch composition are outputFile, stylesheet, stylesheetTypeThe first two should be absolute paths, the third should be "style" if using Stylersheets.

Greetings,I'm looking for anyone who has had experience working with the linenum() function while processing documents - particularly with tables.A function in our software creates XSLFO in order to generate a PDF. Prior to going to a PDF, we generate FOSI and feed the document into the linenum() function which counts the lines of content so we can determine how much content is on a page.This works great, until we reach tables, especially tables which span pages. Here, it either ignores the table, or causes an inaccurate count. This is especially true of tables which have a <thead>.Using Arbortext PE 1.8 (Arbortext 5.3 150)Any suggestions or help appreciated.Michael Friedman

I have remote users that currently conntect to a Windows 2000 Metaframe XP server, which shares Epic Editor 5.1. I have been tasked with upgrading our old Metaframe XP server to a Citrix XenApp 6.0 on a 64 bit Windows 2008 R2 server. That's fine.But, once I try to load Epic 5.1, the installer reports "The version of this file is not compatible with the version of windows that you are running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an x86 (32bit) or x64 (64bit) version of the program, then contact the program vendor. My server and OS are 64 bit, so that's what I need... but I am having a hard time finding if I can patch 5.1 or if I need to upgrade to a newer editor.My main problem is that it is very difficult to get my client to upgrade software. Any time we do that, it starts a very long testing and acceptance process. If there is any way to get 5.1 to work, it would be very helpful. Any advise is appreciated!

I have an implementation of Arbortext Editor 5.2, and I'm noticing that non-breaking spaces are being handled differently than all of my other character entities. Specifically, if I choose NOT to show special characters as symbols, all other character entities are shown as tags, but non-breaking spaces are still shown as spaces. In addition, I have a script that uses Range.ToMarkupString to parse some of the content, and any other character entitities appear as the appropriate XML markup. Non-breaking spaces appear as a single character (ASC 160). However, if I copy the relevant content to the clipboard and paste it into Notepad, I get the non-breaking space as .As far as I can tell, everything I'm doing is treating the nbsp the same as my other char entities, but Arbortext is doing something different with it. Am I missing something? Is there anything I can do to make the nbsp behave like the other character entities?Thanks,Rebecca DahlmanProject Performance Corporation

Hi all,I'm having a problem with Styler expressing whitespace in our PDF output. Please see the following code snippet and attached jpg of the output. When I manually remove the spaces between the para and section end tags, I have no problem. It seems that I should be able to strip the space somehow. I admit that the code is a little messy, but is there a way to ignore the whitespace in our output? We're using a FOSI-based Styler stylesheet. Thank you for your time and attention.Kind regards,Anne SPI-turvalausekkeet<title>SPI-turvalausekkeet</title><conbody><section> <title>Johdanto</title> Varoituksilla osoitetaantässä oppaassa vaaroja ja vakavuuden tasoa. Tutustu määritelmiin jamerkityksiin. Pocket Vieweriä ei ole tarkoitettu ensisijaiseksihälytyslähteeksi. </section><section> <title>Vaarat</title> Vaaratarkoittaa välitöntävaarallista tilannetta, jonka huomioimatta jättäminen johtaa vakavaanloukkaantumiseen tai kuolemaan.

Hello all,I am looking for an ACL function that will interrogate the DTD and tell me whether a given element is contextually correct for insertion before the first element in the exising SGML document. I know that the insert_tag function returns 1 on success and 0 on failure, but I need to know whether an element can be inserted in the current context before the insert_tag function is called.For example, the current docuement may contain only <section> elements which in turn contain <para> elements. For the sake of this example, lets say that <section elements can only be wrapped by <book> elements and not <magazine> elements. If the user executes a custom ACL function designed to wrap the current document in a <magazine> parent element, I want to systematically determine that this is an invalid action and notify the user before calling the insert_tag function and reacting to its error status.I’ve read about the content_model function that returns the c

Has anyone tried / succeeded returning XML markup from a datamerge? My < arebeing converted to < in the resulting markup.Data source is Excel.QueryType=FreeformI also noticed that the data type determination appears faulty. If I havethe following data in a column:512 MB1 GB12The 12 is not returned. If all rows in the column are numeric, the 12 isreturned. Setting the Excel cells to Text (instead of General) has noimpact.-- Paul Nagai

Hello everyone,Just wondering if anyone know how to set an attribute to read-only -in a specific context.In the .dcf I can set><attributeoption attribute="attname" dialoghidden="no" readonly="yes"/">But I need to set it at a specific level. The same @attname at theroot level needs to be editable.thanks,Tracey

Hello adepters,I have a weird problem that I experienced on a Windows-7 machine, I ran the same code on Windows-vista and it works.I have a comobox with listitems, if I tab over the combobox and select the item by arrows without hitting enter the value of the comobobox doesn't get updated with the selected item. If I hit enter after selecting the item or use the mouse, the value of the combobox gets updated. On windows vista, the value gets updated whether I hit enter or not.Did anybody experienced a similar problem?Below is the XUI box:<window title="Single" question"=" orient="vertical" modal="false" align="end"> <script type="application/x-javascript" ev:event="WindowLoad"> var dialog = Application.event.target; var xuiDoc = dialog.dialogView.document; </script> <textbox width="200" resize="none"><value id="nameValue"></value></textbox> <combobox id="typeCombo" type="dropdownlist" width="120" resize="none"> <listitem label=

Paste excel option in working with my Arbortext Editor 5.3. Is their and setting require to activate this option?

Hi John et al.We have DITA workshops coming up, including one advertised now on thepublishing process. Check the training website at

For those of you who frequently attend conferences and seminars, I wanted to provide you with a list of upcoming events where Arbortext is either sponsoring or exhibiting. We are constantly adding to this list and I will try to update as needed. Keep in mind we have Arbortext representation at many other conferences via speaking slots and conference attendance so, for your sanity and mine I have limited the list below to official sponsorship and exhibition. Come visit us! We would love to chat with you about the exciting things with Arbortext!2011 Air Force Worldwide Technical Data WorkshopMarch 14-18, Destin, FLWebsiteParticipation: Sponsor, ExhibitorCMS/DITA North America ConferenceApril 4-6, Baltimore, MDWebsite Participation: Exhibitor, Session SpeakerPushpinder Toor, Product Manager with PTC, who is responsible for the DITA interface and CMS support within Arbortext Editor, will be presenting the session "Schematrons: When DTD validation isn't enough"Field Service 2011April 26-29,

Available for immediate downloading from PTC's support site is theArbortext 5.3 M220 release. This maintenance release includes bug fixes only. If you want to knowall the details about this release, please check out the release notes<">https://www.ptc.com/view?im_dbkey=123075> . If you have any questionsabout the release schedule, please reference the PTC Product Calendarat:

Hi All--In case you haven¹t received the previous notices, we will have an onlinemeeting of the PTC Users Arbortext Technical Committee. It¹s open to allofficial members of the Technical Committee; unfortunately, not to everyoneelse. The meeting will be on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb 15 and 16, from 8 amto 12 pm pacific time.The call-in numbers and web address should be available soon from the teamat Arbortext.If you¹d like to attend, you must join the TC first. Go to the PTC Userswebsite and select the TC tab. You¹ll find the Arbortext TC first on thelist.The presentations will feature new developments at Arbortext and somepresentations by users.If you are a member of the TC and did not receive the posts I¹ve beensending out, please be certain that the TC is on your ³white list.²Invitations could be going to Spam filters. Check for tc-arbortext ....Best regards,JoAnn HackosChair, Arbortext TC