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Presented by Single-Sourcing Solutions Inc.   In this session, we discuss some of the factors that compel forward-focused companies and consultants to make the leap to XML. You will learn what XML is, how it works, and how you can move from the trap that is desktop publishing into a flexible, dynamic structured authoring environment with ease. By the end of our talk, you will be able to comfortably answer the important questions: Why should you make the transition? How can you make the transition? And, when is the right time to make the leap?   Registration URL:  https://ptc.zoom.us/webinar/register/3116191140212/WN_XHp05BVhRgyfm3ls1wrjpQ

Arbortext Editor/Styler/Publishing Engine 8.1.1.0 and Arbortext Layout Developer/ Arbortext Layout Editor 12.1.1.0 have released!   Key highlights: The graphical applications included with Arbortext Editor have been updated: The Arbortext IsoView and IsoConvert installation has been updated to 7.3 M110 The Creo View and pview_batch installation has been updated to 7.1 The releases include customer critical bug fixes.  

Recently had to reinstall Arbortext on my workstation and it seemed like the installation went well until I tried to preview a document in Editor. It never gets past the second page while formatting before just not doing anything else, it doesn't freeze or lock up, just isn't doing anything.  Verified that the xmls work on other workstations. I don't see any noteable differences in my settings compared to other workstations.  Not sure if anyone has run into an issue like this before and would know what to look for.

https://ptc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XHp05BVhRgyfm3ls1wrjpQ   In this session, we discuss some of the factors that compel forward-focused companies and consultants to make the leap to XML. You will learn what XML is, how it works, and how you can move from the trap that is desktop publishing into a flexible, dynamic structured authoring environment with ease. By the end of our talk, you will be able to comfortably answer the important questions: Why should you make the transition? How can you make the transition? And, when is the right time to make the leap?

As was previously announced, the support for SOAP requests in Arbortext Publishing Engine is deprecated.  We expect to remove SOAP support in the release that is currently planned for October, 2021.

My illustration looks great in IsoDraw, so I export it to WebCGM 2.1 for downstream processes.  It looks great in the downstream process, but if I import the .cgm file back to IsoDraw it is missing line colors, line weights, leader-line halos, and area colors to name a few.

I trying to upload a newly created Arbortext document to Windchill and I'm getting the error "AutoNumber Action Failed Number of conflictsfound:1 :Incorrect or nonexistent Type category "WCTYPE|wt.epm.EPMDocument|@softtypeprefix@.DynamicDocument|@softtypeprefix@.commonsection" using the function " but others using the same system are not. I'm quite new to Arbortext so any help is appreciated.   Thanks    

Hello everybody, I'm completely new to this community - so hello to you. 🙂 So I guess, all postings have to be in English, don't they? I wasn't successful in getting support for Arbortext. So if anyone has a concrete URL I still would be grateful. The question I have is if there is a charge free trial version of Arbortext. Have a nice day, Thomas

Currently, in my environment, enhanced completeness checking (which includes Schematron) only runs when the user manually runs the "cc" command or selects Completeness Check from the menu.    We would like Schematron to be continuously validating the content in the Editor in real time. Another option is to "force" a Completeness Check upon save or close, but because we are using a third party CCMS with its own Arbortext ACL programming in custom/init and scripts, we feel it is too risky to rewrite the save and close aliases ourselves to force the completeness check.    Unfortunately, this is necessary because some of our tech writers cannot seem to get in the habit of following process and running "cc" before checking content back in to the CCMS.   Any ideas? Thanks!   PS: We are running Arbortext Editor v6.0, but we should be on v7.1 by year end.

I made a stylesheet that was a copy of an existing, working stylesheet. I copied the modules, and, using the Organize Modules button, I removed the old modules and added in the new copied ones. I made no other changes, saved the stylesheet, and closed it. Then, when I try to re-open the stylesheet, I get the following error:   ERROR: Stylesheet includes module 'Engineering Style Sheet'  (C:\PTC\custom\doctypes\Engineering\Engineering_ditabase.style) multiple times in module hierarchy. The stylesheet module hierarchy may have been invalidated by other stylesheets that are currently open and share common modules with this stylesheet.    I looked through the modules in Notepad and can't find any reference to my stylesheet in them. I've tried duplicating this stylesheet a few times and keep getting the same error. I was able to successfully duplicate one previously.  Is there anyway I can fix this problem? Or perhaps does somebody know where I'm going wrong?  

STC India Virtual Event| March 20th at 3:30 India Time Presentation:  Using DITA/XML for authoring content, an introduction - by Denis Dublineau Registration:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5rGzc6VMWUmh-dGGOBWycc0_GHLfG7iVjy2mJKLR8tm9ZWQ/viewform  OASIS DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) has become one of the most commonly used documentation standard. But more than a document specification, DITA is an “Architecture” (the “A” in the acronym) and a methodology for defining how information shall be structured and managed.  This introductory session will describe the concepts behind DITA and its impact on the publishing process. What are XML and DITA? Where is this technology coming from? Why is Darwin involved in What is the benefit of using XML and DITA? What is the impact on the authors?

Many companies are looking for optimizing XML publishing capabilities to better support their customer needs. More and more product related documents, in different formats, with a variety of layouts, are needed. Required effort for that is often painful.Arbortext Publishing Engine is a powerful solution to enable high-end publishing to different formats in a cost-effective manner. It greatly supports formats such as PDF, HTML, eBook and Content Delivery. Arbortext Styler provides excellent efficiency to create and maintain stylesheets required for that. All without programming.In this webinar event, our well experienced partner DATACOPY will demonstrate the journey to easily move to the powerful Arbortext Publishing Engine. Beside some overview, Erwin Mueller will focus on live presentation for Arbortext Styler and Publishing Engine. Erwin is a Senior Principal Consultant optimizing XML high-end publishing solutions for customers across Europe for more than 2 decades.   Please Joi

We have use jt files that are exported from SolidEdge. We open our pre sized template and place one or two JT files  on the standard layer in isodraw. We then adjust the models as required, convert from 3d to 2D, scale and move it to fit on our template. Then if we convert back to 3D sometimes the models are at axis in the image not at the one that it was on before 2d'ing it. We also have issues where going back to 3D the model goes back to being the original size not the scaled size. We have tried to do all our scaling in the 2d environment. If you have any suggestions that would be great.   Thanks Bryon

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We use Arbortext 7.0 authoring tool and APE to export to PDF.  Our stylesheet is using Arial Unicode. Upon initial review of our PDF the Operations Manual appears okay at 100% view. But upon closer inspection, the PDF is duplicating the letters in our titles. This happens, we thought, when it was just our headers that were bolded.  OOppeerraattiioonnss MMaannuuaall But upon further investigation, it appears that anything we bold has double letters. Is it because of the font?  In Arbortext 6 we used Helen Pro, a font we purchased without issue, except we had to have different fonts for Asian languages.

Dear All, I would like to inform you on a new addition to PTC Arbortext Content Delivery's Download Page , It  now contains the "Customization examples" zip package that holds a set of frequently implemented customization examples, as well as instructions document, which guides you through the steps of implementing those in your Arbortext Content Delivery deployment environment.    Please check this out!!    

In IsoDraw 7.2, I have the ability to cut a line at the intersection of another line using F5 or F6. Sometimes, I wish to cut many lines in this manner along a path. It is very inefficient to delete a part of each line individually, sometimes there are hundreds of lines. Is there any kind of functionality or even a macro that could accomplish this?

Hi, using ISODROW7.3 i need to get in messagebox the position X,Y of text. I tried this but it 's not running, please can you help me DEFINE el AS ElementSelect IF Type is equal to "Text"el = activeDoc.firstSelectedElementWHILE (Exists (el) = true )define a as string define b as stringa = el.position.x.string b= el.position.y.stringmessage a + b  

We have a macro that does three wait mousebutton calls to get three points to allow us to draw a figure. The issue being is if we don't click quickly enough (can vary from 2 to 10ish seconds) the entire program locks up and we have to kill IsoDraw to continue. Has anybody seen this before?   Thanks, Martin

These bug fix-only releases are available on the PTC download site.   8.1.0.1 can be installed on top of an 8.1.0.0 release or it can be installed by itself.  8.1.0.1 contains all 8.1.0.0 and 8.1.0.1 release updates.

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I have some titles that, through a condition, add a "NEW" image to indicate that this section is new.When I do the TOC the image added in the condition with a generated text of type suffix does not appear. How can I make it appear.   Example of how it appears in the document. Example of how it appears in the TOC Example of how I want it to appear   I use Docbook and Styler. Thank you,

Hello, When Arbortext is started with no document loaded, the "Entities" menu and submenus are disabled. With the ACL language, how to activate the "Entities" menu and the sub-menus ? David

PTC’s Arbortext Business Unit is committed to providing ongoing feature-rich releases of the Arbortext product suite.  Each release also addresses requested product fixes and has enhancements to the product’s security features.  PTC encourages customers to keep current with Arbortext releases so they have the latest updates and fixes. Effective immediately, the PTC Arbortext Editor, PTC Arbortext Styler, PTC Arbortext Publishing Engine, PTC Arbortext Architect, PTC Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher, PTC Arbortext Layout Developer, and PTC Arbortext Layout Editor products are changing the lifecycle of our releases.      The new Standard Lifecycle End Dates for the Arbortext release streams are: Arbortext 8.0.0.0,  8.0.1.0: March, 2022 Arbortext Layout Developer 12.0.0.0, 12.0.1.0:  March, 2022   Arbortext 8.1.0.0: October, 2022 Arbortext Layout Developer 12.1.0.0: October, 2022   There will be no maintenance releases for these streams after

I was wondering if there is any built in functionality for a chgmark to continue along the top of a landscape page instead of vertically.    Using Arbortext 7.1 Architect