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Hi, I use Arbortext to XML-based online courses using a custom Flash engine for publishing. I often have the need to embed smaller SWF files within the XML for display in the course player. But I also have a need to publish these courses in PDF format for reviewers. I use the Compose PDF option of the File menu, not the Arbortext Publishing Engine. I want to be able to embed SWFs in the PDF so that they are interactive and will play within the PDF. I have seen an example of a SWF in a PDF like this. Does anyone know how to set up a stylesheet so that the SWF will be embedded in the PDF? I have an element that contains a path to the SWF file in an attribute. The best I have been able to do is specify the path to an html file that launches the SWF in the attribute and then define the element as a link. But this gives me a clickable link in the PDF file that launches the SWF in a separate window. I would like to have the SWF embedded within the PDF rather than linked. Does anyone know how

I have 5 objects that use a single callout number. If I try to use 5 callout lines, the shadows from each one cover the ones below. I need them all to have shadows over the lineart below. I tried using a polyline that zig-zagged back over itself so that it could point out all the objects, but I am being told that in the final proprietary viewer, the lines dont look like they do in Isodraw. Any ideas?

Is there a way to tell CadProcess to open a 3D drawing (an IGES file for example), in Wireframe instead of RENDERING as per default?I could see that opening a drawing in that way, speeds up the opening from 20 to 35%.Many thanxFlavio

Adepters:Another problem in our move to AE 5.4 M150. If an author makes some edits and closes the document - but leaves the editor open, the folder containing the edited document cannot be deleted unless AE is closed entirely. This causes problems for our CMS when the document is checked in as it automatically removes the checkout folder. There have also been reports that the document is tied up, even though it was closed and a checkin fails completely (I haven't reproduced that problem, however).Are there any tricks we can use to get AE to release the directory when a document is closed? Restarting AE is not a good option as the author may have several windows open.Dave

Available for immediate downloading from PTC's support site is theArbortext 5.3 M190 release. This maintenance release includes bug fixes only. If you want to knowall the details about this release, please check out the release notes<">http://www.ptc.com/view?im_dbkey=114321> . If you have any questionsabout the release schedule, please reference the PTC Product Calendarat: <">http://www.ptc.com/company/tl/index.htm>

A customer of mine is trying to author his document in 5.4 M030 but constantly getting Stack overflow exception errors.Not sure why this is happening but tends to be when manipulating tables. This does not happen in 5.3 M170.Has anyone else had this problem ?

I have installed cadprocess on a 64 bit machine for testing purpose, and I could see that cadprocess is launched in 32 bit emulation. Does exists another version 64 bit native that I cannot download from the website, or it is not supported as 64 bit native? If actually there is not a 64 bit native, is there a plan for this development? Many thanx Flavio

Is anyone using EMS2 in AE 4.3.1? I can't download 4.3.0 (which is what our EMS2 is set up for) and when it recompiles the doctypes for 4.3.1, it is screwing up the capitalization of attributes in the maintainae compiled files. All the others compile fine.If you do, could you send me three maintainae files?.dec.pro.ptdThanks!John T. Jarrett CDTSenior Tech Writer, Integrated Logistics Support,Land & Armaments/Global Tactical SystemsT832.673.2147 | M 832.363.7234 | F 832.673.2376| x1147 | -BAE Systems, 5000 I-10 West, Sealy, Texas USA 77474www.baesystems.com

In our move to AE 5.4 M150, many authors are reporting very poor performance when first launching the editor. I've confirmed this even when opening the editor without a document. It takes anywhere from 40 to 90 seconds, usually the first time you open the editor. If you immediately close and then reopen the editor (again, without a document), it opens in just a few seconds. Anyone have any idea what's going on during that initial open. It has nothing to do with our doctypes, etc., as it happens without opening a document. Maybe there are some default preferences that need to be unplugged?Again, this was not an issue with AE 5.2 M130, our previous level.Dave

It has been a while since I last asked for assistance, but I'd like tothrow this out and tap into the vast range of experience I've come toappreciated from fellow adepters.I am just beginning to look into migrating from a Unix serverenvironment where about 30 authors log on from Unix workstations toaccess a common Arbortext Editor installation and rehosting to a PCbased environment. I would like to continue using the client-servermodel so I will have a single installation to maintain. I was wonderingif there are any big issues with this approach and recommendations onhow to approach this. We are a small operation and are only looking touse Arbortext Editor for editing SGML document, not to publish them.Robert Paisley, MSCS MSSENorthrop-GrummanLevel 5 EngineerAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. - Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

I am building an ascii data stream and writing it out to a text file.Each line of text needs to be terminated with the null character which I am appending to within the ACL via :text_line=string . chr(0);When I open the text file in Notepad++, and view symbols it is not displaying the NUL symbol; Other ascii symbols appear ok.Am I using the correct ACL syntax ? Do I need to provide an extra parameter when writing out to the file ?Regards,Andy

Hi, DITA and Arbortext users and gurus:Anybody know how to disable the warning you get if you try to insert a topicref into a reltable cell and the type of the topicref does not match the type of the reltable column? We want to put topicrefs of type "html" into the reltable, which are links to external websites (format=html, scope=external). We want to put them in the reltable column of type "topic" (actually a specialization thereof) and we get two warnings when we do. We could create a reltable column of type "html" and this works fine, but want to avoid that.ThxSteve Fogel, Information Architect, Oracle Corporation

Though this involves a macro, it seemed to be a general font issue.We utilize a copyright symbol in one of our documents that is created entirely in IsoDraw. I replace this by macro at particular times. One of our associates in China, however, ends up with a question mark instead of a copyright when the same sequence is run on their machines. Another China associate does not have this problem. We've made sure our fonts match on both China machines and our US machines. Any thoughts on why this might be happening?

Hi All,I have a dialog box that I display when a user is inside a table and selects the menu option that I added. What I am stump on now is how I get the oid of the table so that I can then set attributes on the table tag depending on the option selected in the dialog.Here is the javascript function I am trying to write, maybe javascript is not the best option for this so if you have other solutions I will take them into consideration also.function getTableid(){ var table_oid=0; var caretCellId = Acl.eval("tbl_oid_cell(oid_caret())"); Acl.eval("tbl_obj_attr_get( caretCellId, 'OID', table_oid )"); Application.alert("inside get Table id "+caretCellId +"-"+table_oid); return table_oid;}I am getting a numberfor the caretCellId, but the table_oid is always 0.Thanks,Ellen

When choosing between Print Composer as opposed to Arbortext Publishing Engine for generating PDFs, am I correct in saying that the former is more suitable for lower levels of output rather than the latter which is suitable for very high levels of output ?Please can someome clarify when one should use the latter over the former ?Regards,Andy

This month's meeting is Saturday..

This seems like such a stupid question but I've looked and looked and am getting nowhere...and I'm not that good with XSL FO.Is there a way to test if the text is wider than the block and if so, change the inherited text-align=left to text-align=center if it is just one short sentence?<xsl:template match="trim.para"> <fo:block font-family="sanserif" space-before.conditionality="discard" space-before.maximum="8pt" space-before.minimum="6pt" space-before.optimum="7pt" span="all"> <xsl:if test="@bullet" ==" yes"="> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="no">•</xsl:text> </xsl:if> <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/"> </fo:block></xsl:template>Thanks,John T. JarrettBAE Systems | Arbortext PE version 5.4 | LOGSA XSL-FO v 1.7

I have an element <rotate> permitted within the CALS table model <entry>that does some funky in the usetext:source="%\hbox{\special{pub: rotate 90}%,#CONTENT,%}%"In tables on portrait pages, this gives me text rotated 90 degreescounter-clockwise. I must manually set the row's height since the rotationtakes place after the formatting engine determines that. However, in tablesthat appear on portrait with landscape content or true landscape pages, myrotated TeX text doesn't show up.Any TeX mages out there that could suggest a mod to my rotate hack thatmight work on landscape output?Or know another way I could achieve this in 5.3 m110?(Looks to me like I'll be screen capping and shipping graphics, which I hatebut have done before.)-- Paul Nagai

I am using the <indexter><primary><secondary><tertiary>... setup. Someentries are bold, others are not and I can't quite figure out where the boldis coming from.-- Paul Nagai

stylersheet was working fine yesterday. today, crashy boing boing.When I'm composing locally (peservices=off), Styler hangs. If I "kill" it,it fails the composition and displays a DVI exception (opening dvi file(filename) dvipos: -1 code 1 can't open dvi file, failure post-processingfor compser type pdf.If I delete US Frontpage Set pageset, it's fine.If I recreate US Frontpage Set by creating a copy of US Bodypage Set, it'sfine.If I assign TOC, LOF, LOT, or Preface to trigger US Frontpage Set (or USBodypage Set) it fails again.What is up?-- Paul Nagai

Hi all,Now that you are all back from the conference I can start asking questions again 🙂I am able to get my menu item added to the menu and the cmd is getting called like I want... but I haven't figured out the -active option so that the menu item is only active when the user isin a table or if they have selected the table. # *** Add table styles menu *** menu_add ".Table." "Change Table Style" -cmd {jepp_tabledlg::change_jepp_table_dlg();} -active "tbl_mod_table_dlg()" # table==oid_name(selected_element()) # selected() this is if any text is selected in the edit windowI guess I learn by example and just haven't found any examples of something like this. 🙂Ellen

Help !!! 🙂Maybe someone has seen something like this to give us help. We havesome ACL code called from the FOSI, it works when we compose from the Editor and from PE interactive. It does not work when the same file is requestedwith the servlet.This makes no sense to us, does it make sense to anybody else?Ellen

I am using the gsub ('<.*>', ' ', string) command to remove start tags within an ascii string.However, if there are nested elements within the string, it will remove a whole section from the very first '<' to the very last '>' regardless of the tag.Is there anyway of just getting it to remove individual start tags from '<' to the next occurance of '>' I assumed this is what the gsub command should be doing anyway ?

I really miss all the great help I used to get in the ITEDO IsoDraw Macro forums. IsoDraw has very powerful Macro abilities. Will we see this kind of forum again?