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Available for immediate downloading from PTC's support site is theArbortext 5.3 M170 release. This maintenance release includes bug fixes only. If you want to knowall the details about this release, please check out the release notes.If you have any questions about the release schedule, please referencethe PTC Product Calendar at: <">http://www.ptc.com/company/tl/index.htm>

Hi All,I'm back with yet more questions. I've created a template for our manual request form (again, thank you all) and I've created a small text entity file to try. I inserted the information and renamed the file to go with our product, CP Python. I closed the file and opened it again. It appeared with all of the formatting gone until I attached the style sheet. The style sheet is not named CP Python but it is manual_request.styler. Before I attached the style sheet I checked to see if the text entity file was there and it was not. When I attached the style sheet, I checked again and it was there. Why is that? How can I make sure that a particular style sheet is attached to a document even if the file names don't match? Are the text entity file and the style sheet connected somehow? If I have 18 files that all use the same style sheet and text entities, can I update the text entities in any of those files and have all 18 files update?Next, what I want to do for our manual requests for

We are about to run a 38,000 page book through the PE.Has anyone done a book that big before?Anyone have a clue as to hardware requirements? RAM? Pagespace settings? Have a guess as to how long it will take?John T. JarrettBAE Systems | Arbortext version 5.4 | LOGSA XSL-FO v 1.5

Hello,We use some inline tags like <null> and <placeholder> in our tables. These tags are styled differently to show on the document which appears right in all parts of the document except tables. They indeed appear the way that I styled them to show but it appears with the tags. I am not getting the correct table view of the document because of this.

This is a little off the track of a pure Adepters question, so if it's appropriate to send me to an internet discussion group somewhere, feel free to suggest one for that. I looked a little and couldn't locate one. So, I thought perhaps one of the experts in document processing monitoring this forum might be able to provide some help. Under the Arbortext Editor's JVM, we are able to use an AOM Acl.func("tag_has_attr", elementName, attributeName, docID) call to test whether the DTD for an XML source file says a named attribute is applicable to a named element.We have need to do that test running under a free standing (non-editor) jdk1.5.0_15 JVM where we're currently using the org.w3c.dom and javax.xml.parsers java packages to process XML source files looking for concerns in them. However, the DOM classes only appear to provide functions for inspecting whether an instance element in a DOM instance document has an attribute value either physically specified or has it defaulted with a val

Hi again,I searched and didn't find an answer.... How do you get a title to wrap nicely before the page number when you have a very long title?I haven't tried it yet, but might an alignment group work? This also might be a "problem" in the index when you have term wrapping.Has anyone else solved this problem before?Thanks,Ellen

Is it possible in java (with a mixture of ACL if needed) to convert a DOM document object to a string (without writing the document to a file and reading the file in)? To a certain extent I can do this, but a couple of things are causing problems. I want the string to have the xml declaration and (less important) the processing instruction Arbortext adds ( like ). And most importantly, I need the resulting string to have only user-specified attributes, no DTD/Schema provided defaults. And by attributes, I mean both true element attributes as well as "attributes" to Arbortext-specific processing instructions like _font and _touchup. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Brian Jensen bjensen@bluelid.com

Adepters:Can Styler 5.3 resolve number styles (e.g., 1., a., etc.) for nestedsteps in a procedure when cross-referencing? It seems that no matterwhich level the id occurs, Styler only resolves the number of thehighest level nested step in the cross-reference. Given the following markup:<step1> <para>This is step 1.</para> <step2 id="stp-020"> <para>This is step a.</para> </step2> <step2> <para>This is step b.</para><step1> <para>Go back and do step <xref idref="stp-020"/"></para>I'd like the following output:1. This is step 1. a. This is step a. b. This is step b.2. Go back and do step a.But Styler generates:1. This is step 1. a. This is step a. b. This is step b.2. Go back and do step 1.Why? Is there a limitation in Styler which prohibits it from resolvingnested step id references using the number style associated with thatlevel? What's funny is that double-clicking the generated text in thexref repo

Good Morning Everyone,I am using Epic Editor 5.3M60 and a fosi.I have subparas where the title is optional .The problem is that these subparas report to the toc.It is driving me nuts. I can't figure out how to tell the fosi, that if title doesn't follow the para tag, do not report to the toc.Any suggestions.[cid:image001.png@01CAB540.8D6A0370][cid:image002.png@01CAB540.8D6A0370]Sindy YoungAWACS Tools and Technology Team,(253) 657-6964Kent, WA 98032

Hello,I have attributes called desktop, cycle, show etc., in my atict tags. These are currently fed into the XML file through an external transform program. When I try to open the xml file in ArborText after running this transform it shows the following error:*** Error on line 22 in file Q:\NextGen_3A\Cycle_1\01 For XPP Composition\01 Clean\10-1111-20.xml:[A11053] Unrecognized attribute "desktop" for tag "atict:add"*** Error on line 22 in file Q:\NextGen_3A\Cycle_1\01 For XPP Composition\01 Clean\10-1111-20.xml:[A11053] Unrecognized attribute "cycle" for tag "atict:add"Since these attributes are not defined in atict it throws up the error. Can someone advise which file should I modify to add these attributes.Karthik

Hi All,I can't find where forms are supported and that's fine. I don't need true forms with drop-down lists and check boxes. What I do need is something that can simulate a form so that our customers can fill it out by hand and send it to us. We have this form in Word 18 times; one for each product. I thought that I would create the forms and use an Entity List to insert the information we need to include so the customer can order books and print it to PDF with the correct information. The items in the list won't change very often.In Word, I would do it using a table and turning borders on and off as well as adjusting cell widths independently from the table. I've been trying that for two hours in Arbortext and can get it to work to a point. My biggest problem is a border around the table. I figured how to turn borders on and off using the attributes dialog box from the tree view (I don't remember the official name). I can't figure out how to manipulate the cell widths independently or

Hello,When we first publish documents for our clients it will be cycle 1. Clients review and mark changes and in that case it will be cycle 2 and increments there after until there are not edits in the document.We had modified ArborText change tracking tags to have"cycle" attribute to it. Using an external transform program we input the cycle information into the XML file on all change tracking markups. In addition our DTD has <document> as a root element which also as a cycle attribute. This cycle information is pulled from our CMS that tell the file what is the latest cycle. Here is the sample.Original source in cycle 1:This is a text from initial cycle.Original source XML markup:<para>This is a text from initial cycle.</para>Cycle 2 edit - replace the existing text with 'This is a text from cycle 2':<strike>This is a text from initial cycle.</strike> This is a text from Cycle 2.Cycle 2 XML Markup<para><atict:del>This is a text from initial c

Next week: Adepter's regular, Paul Nagai!*"Real-Time, Mission-Critical Publications with Digital Media Publisher*"*Presented by Paul Nagai, Nagai Resources**Date*: Saturday, 27 February 2009, 9:00-10:30 AM Pacific/US*Location*: Online via GoToMeeting . You must RSVP to receive theGoToMeeting invite.*Cost*: Free and open to all who wish to attend.*RSVP*: ">https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/462827346<https: www.123signup.com=" event?id="jqjxg">*Topic*Come see how a financial company has used Arbortext Digital Media Publisherto reduce time-to-market for publication deliveries to worldwide processingcenters from one month to near real time. Leveraging existing Arbortextinvestments and expertise in XML and related technologies, the systemprovides an end-to-end electronic publishing solution fully supported by asingle vendor. If you missed the PTC/User conference last year, this is yourchance to see one of the outstanding presentations we were treated to!*About the Speaker*Paul

Hi Everyone,Hi Everyone,After some false starts, we have settled on dates for the Arbortext Webinarswith the members of the Arbortext Technical Committee. The events will beheld from 8 ­ 11 am Pacific time on Wednesday 10 March and Thursday 11March, 2010. I will send you an Outlook invitation shortly.I¹ll have details about the agenda soon. The discussions will includepresentations from TC members and from PTC Arbortext project managers.I would like anyone to volunteer to make a 10 minute presentation to theproject managers and members.Topic: How are you implementing Arbortext in your organization? Whatconcerns do you have?We¹d like to use this time for Q&A as well as presentations. I know many ofyou have already voiced concerns about the general direction of theArbortext products that you may want to raise with the project managers andmembers. I took everyone¹s previous comments into account when planningthese events.Once we have the agenda in place, I will ask you to let me know

I am using Arbortext Editor V5.2 (MPL-2037). When producting a PDF when there are combination of letters (fi) anywhere within the content of my XML these do not print. I get a square box to represent these characters. Can anyone assist as to why this is happening?

Hello, This message is intended to point customers to the formal communicationregarding PTC's end-of-product support for Arbortext(r) PublishingEngine(tm) on Solaris(r) and Linux(r) Operating Systems beginning withArbortext Publishing Engine 6.0.Please refer to this Customer Support Bulletin:

If I Print Composed to a PDF driver, I get graphics.If I Compose to a PDF File, I don't - none in any graphic format.Sound familiar?And thanks for those with more data on PE and huge docs!John T. JarrettBAE Systems | Arbortext version 5.4 | LOGSA XSL-FO v 1.5

For those of you who will be presenting at PTC/User this year, congratulations!If anyone is interested in *not* using PowerPoint to prepare theirslides, I have an XSL-FO stylesheet that I put together as I assembledmy slides last year. It takes standard DITA concept markup as inputand produces PDF that is visually indistinguishable (to most eyes,anyway) from the PTC/User-supplied template.Of course, there are differences. The results you get with thisapproach will be more consistent and less work. You'll just have totake the bad with the good. 😉I'll be updating this to match the template for this year, as well asworking on smoothing out some of the rough corners that remained afterlast year's work. If anyone is interested in trying it out, orhelping out with feedback and the like, please let me know.-Brandon 🙂

Hello, Long time I haven't been active in this forum.....Does anyone has experience in the integration of Opentext Livelink (especially the Enterprise Publishing module) with Arbortext Editor? Any reference (good or bad) is welcome. Thanks in advance for your help! Kindest regards,Hans J Bigalke(Strasbourg, France)

*"Real-Time, Mission-Critical Publications with Digital Media Publisher*"*Presented by Paul Nagai, Nagai Resources**Date*: Saturday, 27 February 2009, 9:00-10:30 AM Pacific/US*Location*: Online via GoToMeeting . You must RSVP to receive theGoToMeeting invite.*Cost*: Free and open to all who wish to attend.*RSVP*: ">https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/462827346<https: www.123signup.com=" event?id="jqjxg">*Topic*Come see how a financial company has used Arbortext Digital Media Publisherto reduce time-to-market for publication deliveries to worldwide processingcenters from one month to near real time. Leveraging existing Arbortextinvestments and expertise in XML and related technologies, the systemprovides an end-to-end electronic publishing solution fully supported by asingle vendor. If you missed the PTC/User conference last year, this is yourchance to see one of the outstanding presentations we were treated to!*About the Speaker*Paul has over 19 years professional experience

This is a question from a co-worker:In our VB6 program, we're opening Arbortext Editor and loading an XML doc using the Epic.AclSingleUse COM method. At this time we're also passing in various string variables. We now need to pass in a COM object to Arbortext Editor to be used by Arbortext (via ACL) at various times during the editing process. Is there a way to do this?The code we're using looks something like this:Dim aclSingle As Epic.AclSingleUseSet aclSingle = New Epic.AclSingleUseaclSingle.Execute ("$varname=" & thisVarname & ") 'string variableaclSingle.Execute ("$varname2=" & thisVarname2 & ") 'string variableaclSingle.Execute ("$objectvarname=" & objectVarname & ") 'a COM object variable if possibleaclSingle.Execute ("edit -newwindow " & " & xmlFilename & ")

Is anyone aware of how to use something along the lines of %userprofile% within the Toolbar.prf file? Example: Current line reads as follows... ToolbarUserItem: -2;C:\ptc\Program\Macros\Import_from_Illustrator.jpg; Want this to be something like this instead... ToolbarUserItem: -2;%userprofile%\\Application Data\PTC\IsoDraw\Macros\Import_from_Illustrator.jpg; Any ideas?

Maybe I am mistaken and don't know what I am doing (a good possibility), but it seems like wild cards (*) in substr don't work very well when searching for element names. I am trying to search for any elements that contain a given substring in their name, such as "-xyz". What is the correct syntax to use for this in ACL?For instance, if I were looking for any element that contained the substring "-xyz" in the element name, how would that oid_find_children(), or whatever, function read?As I have stated before, I am no ACL expert, nor do I play one on TV.________________________________

The entity list has to do with which characters show up in the characterentity dialog for fastest access. As the author uses various specialcharacters, they get recorded here on the assumption that the author maywant to reuse. And we initialize the list with a short set to beginwith. The pub caret processing instruction tells the Editor where the caretwas when the document was saved. We use this to put the caret back tothe same location when you reopen the document. If the pub caret ismissing, we just put the caret near the top of the document. John Dreystadt Software Development DirectorArbortext - PTC734-352-2835-

Hi,I think I must be overlooking something simple..... again....My list items after a nested list are starting back at 1 like a reset has happened, but I only reset the counter at the begininng of the list.Example:(a) list item(b) list item (1) nested list item (2) nested list item(a) list item should be (c) the XML is coded correctly, because the screen displays it correctly with another FOSIWhat am I forgetting to check? I feel silly this should be a simple 101 FOSI coding.Thanks Ellen