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I've a macro that works through all layers in an illustration (making each one active as it goes along).I want to make it activate the original layer at the end of the macro (i.e. the one that was active before the macro was run).I can't find a way to do this.Anyone know how check which layer is currently active in a macro?

Hello!Is it possible to get a special license for Arbortext Editor plugin developers? Perhaps, with limited functional.14 days trial is not enough.

We draw a lot of cables and many of them are of the ribbed type (see attached sketch)If the cables are straight, we can just copy the ribbing no problem.But ours are nearly all curved, and the ribbing has to follow the curve, so we end up either not adding them at all, or spending lots of time copying the ribs and rotating them roughly to fit the new positions. It never looks perfect this way.I've long wanted to do a macro to make adding ribbing easier but can't find a way to make it work.The way I would have done the macro it is to select the centre line of the curve, have the macro check the line at fixed intervals, working out the angle of the line at each point, copying the ribs from the previous positions (as you don't seem to be able to draw arcs in Isodraw) moving and rotating them to each new angle.I can't find any way to work out the angle of a polyline or bezier at any given point along it's length so don't know if this way is possible.I wonder if anyone else has any ideas I

I've a macro that needs to rotate an item depending on whether the thick or thin part of an ellipse has been picked.But I can't find a way to work this out.I thought of useing activeDoc.firstSelectedElement.ellipse.segments[1].pen but when you select an ellipse, segment 1 is always the thicker segment, no matter if you select on the first or second segment.Is there a way to do it using firstSelectEdelement?

Hi allI am trying to remove the tracking information from the XML using the ACL scripting, I tried to use the 'xpath_nodeset' function to find the atict:elements with the correct XPath however it looks like the 'atict:' elements are somehow hidden. I also tried to use 'set changetrackingmarkers=full' to show the tracking elements however I was still not able to get the oid of the atict:elements with the 'xpath_nodeset' to be able to remove it.Basically, I want to remove 'atict:info' and 'atict:user' after checking the attribute '@tracking' from 'info' element, if it is set to 'off' and there is no other atict:element (except for the 'info' and 'user') then both info and user elements should be removed from the XML. I hope it makes sense...As always any help with this would be much appreciated! 😉ThanksMarcin

Hiya,Has anyone resolved an issue where the Documentum WDK adapter can't seeJava? I have Editor 6.0 m010 with the WDK Adapter. IE8 is has Java 6_0_33and works fine with Webtop (well, not fine, I had to jiggle the handle abit ... the Java "addon" was present but not quite "right" ... I'm not 100%sure what I did that enabled it within IE8 but it works now).I can navigate in the WDK Adapter, but checkout or anything that fires offthe content transfer services fails. I can right-click within the Adapter,select All Accelerators > Manage Accelerators and then change the Add-onTypes to Toolbars and Extensions (which is where Java shows up) but I donot see Java in the list. It's not present. In "plain" Internet Explorer(now that I've jiggled the handle) it displays Java when I look at Toolbarsand Extensions.I have closed/re-opened Editor. I guess I'll try rebooting, but I don'tthink that's it. I'm on Windows 7.Am I missing something obvious?-- Paul Nagai

It has been too long since I last algrouped and the geometry has fallen outof my head. Somewhere I remember a drawing that depicted what each settingcontrolled ... I need to get that done as a tattoo on the back of one of myhands .... If I can find it.Anyhow, I've got a three column algroup. I can get the first two columns todisplay correctly. Or I can get the last two to display correctly.(Correctly means they appear on the same line.)Which measurement do I need to adjust below to get the third group to notbreak to a new line? I've been adjusting the leftind for the third setwhich displays task.txt.<att><charsubset><indent leftind="-1in" rightind="6in" firstln="-1in"/"><algroup refpoint="first"/"><usetext source="actor.txt" placemnt="after"><subchars><indent leftind="-1in" rightind="6in" firstln="-1in"/"><quadding quad="left"/"><textbrk startln="0" endln="0"/"><algroup refpoint="first"/"></subchars></usetext></

Available for immediate downloading from PTC's support site is the Arbortext 5.4 M150 release.If you want to know all the details about this maintenance release, please check out the release notes<.">https://www.ptc.com/view?im_dbkey=150882>. If you have any questions about the release schedule, please reference the PTC Product Calendar at:PTC.com<">http://www.ptc.com>

Hi folks-- I'm trying to set something up using a page set where the content flowonly appears on the right hand pages, but I need static content toappear on the left pages. When I try to set this up in Styler, it almostworks, except that it gives me a warning if I try to have a left page inmy page set that doesn't contain a "main content flow" region. If I adda very small main content flow region (so it exists but is too small tocontain any actual content), I don't get the error, but the formatterstops on that page and I don't get anything that comes after. The onlyway I can get the document to format is to include some actual contentflow on each page (both right and left), which is not what I want. What I want is something like this: with this content: A, B, C1, 2, 3Do, Re, MiYou and me I want output to look something like this (where each "box" represents apage):

Hi folks-- I have a new blog post up on the TerraXML web site about translatinggenerated text in Styler stylesheets. Check it out:

Hi folks--If you are interested in translation issues, check out my latest blog post on translated generated text in Styler: http://www.terraxml.com/community/blog/bid/239759/How-to-Localize-Text-in-Arbortext-Styler--Clay

Our 3rd Arbortext APP World international users' meeting will be held on the 20th and 21st of November 2012 in Cologne, Germany. The event this year is being held in conjunction with the German community users meeting (APP-Anwendertreffen now in it's 19th year) in parallel English and German language tracks and promises to be the largest ever international APP/3B2 community meeting.Registration for the event in now open!For further details please visitwww.tformat.com/appworld/RegardsChris WesternMD, tformat ltd.-----------------------Event organisers and hostswww.tformat.com & www.datacopy.de

Need instructions on converting FrameMaker files into Epic Editor. Or link to instructions would work, too.

Hi! I'm trying to test a new class in order to implement XUI with java, however I can not import "com.arbortext.epic.Acl" =(Why? When I'm trying to compile, compiler tells me the package doesn't exist. Does anybody know why this is happening to me?Thanks in advance. Best regards,Paulette

Hello!I'm working in a XML document examination, the idea is to perform a walk trough the document and identify certain parts in it. We are trying interactively step through the document highlighting various sections, and maybe prompt the user for a designed action. All this functionality implemented and running inside Arbortext. However I'm pretty new in Arbortext and I feel confused about the recommended tools in order to achieve our goal.I don't know if it's better to think the implemenation all based on ACL, or if it's better using javascript, or maybe "mixing" both of them. I have been working in an example using oid_find_children and implementing a simple content extractor.So please all help, support and advice you can provide me, I really really appreciate it!Regards,Paulette

Related to my earlier thread about looping over files, I'd like to popup a dialog telling the user that the work is happening (in a big directory, it can take a while). The best option I've found for that is response, but it requires a response, so it blocks the rest of the script. Is creating a dialog box in XUI be the best option? Would that work? Steve

Hi!I have been consulting Forums for PTC users, however in many threads people give advice about read HELP X number. Where can I find this help? also I would like to know if there's a guide where I can learn about how to use the tools provided by adepter in forums.Thanks in advance.Paulette Zorrilla

I'd like to use Arbortext to report all the files in a directory that have a certain xpath.It looks like xpath_boolean would tell me if a file has a particular xpath, but I didn't see a good way to loop over all the files in a directory.Does ACL have any convenience functions for looping over all the files in a directory? If not, does anyone have any suggestions for how to go about this? Steve

We have an opening in the United States on our team, User Assistance Engineering.It's a fun team, I've been with it since February 1999.Visit: Job: IRC1987667 <">https://irecruitment.oracle.com/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?page=/oracle/apps/irc/candidateSelfService/webui/VisVacDispPG&OAHP=IRC_EXT_SITE_VISITOR_APPL&OASF=IRC_VIS_VAC_DISPLAY&_ri=821&_ti=1786015002&retainAM=N&addBreadCrumb=RP&bcrumb=Y&oapc=47&oas=8M0_ReT93mDuwziV6QleZQ..> From the listing:As a member of the software engineering division, you will perform high-level design based on provided external specifications. Specify, design and implement minor changes to existing software architecture. Build highly complex enhancements and resolve complex bugs. Build and execute unit tests and unit plans. Review integration and regression test plans created by QA. Communicate with QA and porting engineering as necessary to discuss minor changes to product functionality and to ensure quality and consist

Hi, all…We will probably make extensive use of XML comments in the DITA topics that we edit in ArborText editor. Does anyone know of a way to hide them? We know how to collapse them, but are wondering if there was a way to completely hide them, including the enclosing tags, and even better, have ArborText remember the hidden state of the comment when you close and reopen a document.What would serve us just as well would be for ArborText to remember the collapsed state of XML comments like it does with any other element when you close and reopen a document. Version 6.0 does not do that.ThanksSteve

Hello all,I'm using Editor and PE 5.4 M100, and I'm having difficulty publishing a large doc to PDF.Ok, so the document itself is XML, ATA-style markup, and uses FOSI. It's roughly 2.2MB in size, contains references to about 200 bi-level TIFF graphic ents, and also contains several hundred instances of ID/IDREF pairs.By turning off graphic display and gentext, I was able to get the document to load pretty quickly into the Editor (about 15 seconds). No completeness errors or anything.Either sending this to PE or by using the local Print Composer (using distiller for PDF), I cannot get this document to render. I had my maxBusyInterval set to 30 minutes, and it considered the subprocess for this composition hung and restarted it. Other than that, I can get no indication of errors or issues that I can address. My PC for local composition is XP, with a dual-core Intel and 3Gb RAM.The development server I'm using for PE has 4 quad-core CPUs and 48Gb of RAM.Anyone have any ideas? I tried sear

I'm trying to install IsoDraw 7.0 to a new machine, but I'm not having any luck. It a node-locked license. When I attempt to load it asks for a dongle (which went away years ago). Also, does it need FlexNet and if so, how do you load it for a single computer?

Hi,we have a problem with cgms in Arbortext. We make the drawings with CATIA and then save them to cgm. In Arbortext the drawings look fine and in the preview as well. Nevertheless, when we convert the preview into a PDF, some cgms have funny fines all over them. If we have a look on these drawings in PowerPoint, some other funny lines are shown, but with other programs the cgms look fine.Any ideas to how we can resolve our problem?Thanks in advance!Monica

For anyone out there who is using MIL-STD-40051-1 or 40051-2 (not 1A or 2A), MIL-HDBK-2361C IS FINALLY published and available on the ASSIST web page (all 1458 pages of it).