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Hi I need some help creatinga macro that will copy the contents of a cell and create an index tag with those contents. I have created one but it only works with 6 digit numbers and only can do one cell at a time. We have a mix of 4, 5 and 6 digit part numbers. What I would like to do is select the entire column, maybe 20 or entries and run this macro and have an index tag created for each one. I cannot seem to change the amount of characters that I can select or number of cells as I seems to mess everything up if I do it that wayHere is what I got#Enter; insert_tag("indexterm"); LineUp; CharLeftExtend; repeat 5; EditCopy; LineDown; repeat 2; EditPaste;Thanks Bryon

My group has migrated from Epic 4.3.1 to Arbortext 5.4. We have one doctype that will not compile. It fails with this message:"The maximum number of attributes allowed in a doctype (20000) has been exceeded. Reduce the number of defined attributes or entities and recompile.Compile failed - rc=64"Is there anyway to increase this limit? We changed ATTCAP to various values up to 100000 in the SGML declaration, but it had no effect on the 20000 reported, so it seems like a hard coded limit, but that limit is too small for our purposes.Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.Debra Lee

Hi All,I'm having difficulty configuring the proper font sets for Traditional and Simplified Chinese in a FOSI-based Styler stylesheet.We've had success with both Japanese and Korean, but seem to be stuck with Chinese. In both Chinese variations, the formatter kicks out errors indicating the system is searching for our characters in the Japanese font set. From what I understand of how the system moves through font substitutions of the tfontsub configuration file, it seems that the system does not recognize any font that I set for chs or cht, rolls to the first font in the windowsonly fonts (Japanese), and then finally tries the default font, Arial.I'm suspicious that the publishing pipeline doesn't recognize that we're dealing with Chinese content. Is there any way to check this?I appreciate any insight or troubleshooting tips.Thank you,Anne**Please note that I also posted on PlanetPTC**

I have a xref link which points to a ditamap. Arbortext Editor doesn't support and throws an error. Is this expected one. Could you please help me on this.<Level>ERROR</Level><Message>Reference made to ditamap document "DITAmap 1.ditamap" in document "C:\Users\balaj\Desktop\sandeep\Linkingtest\Task topic 1.dita" at line 17 is not allowed for reference element(xref)</Message>

Hi All,I'm having difficulty configuring the proper font sets for Traditional and Simplified Chinese in a FOSI-based Styler stylesheet. We've had success with both Japanese and Korean, but seem to be stuck with Chinese. In both Chinese variations, the formatter kicks out errors indicating the system is searching for our characters in the Japanese font set. From what I understand of how the system moves through font substitutions of the tfontsub configuration file, it seems that the system does not recognize any font that I set for chs or cht, rolls to the first font in the windowsonly fonts (Japanese), and then finally tries the default font, Arial.I'm suspicious that the publishing pipeline doesn't recognize that we're dealing with Chinese content. Is there any way to check this? I appreciate any insight or troubleshooting tips.Thank you,Anne

I use Leonardo plug in to create companion file. Can anyone provide me the exact procedure to do this?

We recently switch from documentum to PDMLink and I have notice that entity declarations are being saved into my lower level burst objects in PDMLink. This wasn’t a problem in documentum. Does anybody know how to stop this?Thanks in advance!

There may be a more direct FOSI-ish way to do it, but as a last resort,I would assume you could do it using an ACL SYSTEM_FUNC, something alongthese lines: <att><specval attname="fosicompare" attloc="SYSTEM-FUNC<br"/><">http://localhost:62953/aeFosi/help1325.html?queryId=135f845da96> " attval="#NONE"><charsubset><usetext source="\This" element=" has=" no=" content\"="></usetext></charsubset></att> in doctype.acl: function fosicompare(window, oid) { # compare A.txt and B.txt, return 1 if they are equal return (fosivar_value(window, "A.txt", oid)==fosivar_value(window,"B.txt", oid));} --Clay Clay HelbergSenior ConsultantTerraXML

We have just upgraded to Arbortext 6.0 M020 are having multiple speed issues. Whenever we try to print preview, publish or print a document with graphics it slows down to a snails pace and will lock up the workstation. We have some people running Print Composer and some on PE Server, same issues with speed. We have been in contact with PTC and made several configuration changes to PE to accomodate large document processing however speed is still an issue. We havemaxed out thememoryon all workstations. Still having problems. We are contemplating backing back down to 5.4 since this is a major set back in our production process. Has anyone else experienced these types of problems?

I have a question on where should I set an option likedeepcontentsplitting for PE.I have a startup .acl in my custom init directory is that correct place? Should I place it somewhere else?Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone,We are working on a project to create Ebooks from XTML 1.0 strict files, and we are evaluating the possibility of using EPIC 4 or 5 to edit the contents. But so far we have seen that XHTML files with the declaration:Once are saved with EPIC, turn into1.- Is there any way to avoid EPIC from turning the doctype into a PI?2.- Is there any way to use CSS to visualize the editing screen? (Or any tool to convert simple CSS to FOSI)3.- Any tips or recommandations for the editors using EPIC to edit XHTML files?TNX!!_____________________________Gabriel OreggioniDeTeDe, XML - EditorialBarcelonawww.detede.com

Hello Adepters,We have an empty element "endReusableBlock" that only has one attribute "id". It is styled as a block, with its text hidden and we add some gentext after it.[cid:image002.png@01CCFB81.BB0260F0]If we select a block that ends with the hidden element:[cid:image003.png@01CCFB81.BB0260F0]And use Application.ActiveDocument.getTextSelection() to get the selected text, the function doesn't return the hidden element in the range. If I change the styling of the element and make it non hidden. The function "getTextSelection()" returns is in the range.Does anybody have an idea how to solve this?Thanks,-Samah

Actually I got a requirement that to get the Page number of a topic which was cross-referenced(xref). When I use cross reference style in Styler it gives the respective page number in the PDF with the respective links. But I don't want to create a link just want to show the page number as text. Is it possible through styler. I don't know Is this possible with modify of the styler formatting element _sfe:crossreference? Could you please advise me.

Why does Isodraw convert text fonts to Bezier paths when exporting to EPS? I would much rather have the text inthe EPS so that when distilled to PDF, the text will be available for search

Hi,Does anyone know a way to make the "continued" title of amulti-page table say "Concluded" on the last page of thetable?I'm using Styler 6.0 with APP.Thanks,Richard Steadman

In order to display side-by-side layout(one side figure and one side steps), we have shown <info> images using XPath string(ElementContent), But if the image is crossreferenced somewhere in the paragraph then the cross-reference link is not working. After the analysis i found this link doesn't work because of orignal image content was hidden and display using "ElementContent".Note: In the PDF link was created but the link is properly targeted.Is any other possiblities to enable cross-reference for this kind of scenarios. Could you please guide me on this.

After changing our deploy to use a server-side custom.zip (auto patchdeployment), we realized that there is one place in our code that looks fora stylesheet in the custom dir. This was previously hardcoded to"c:\program files\..." which of course no longer works.Does anyone know offhand if there's a variable to find the path of thecurrent custom dir? I'm hoping to have it point to:C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\PTC\Arbortext\Editor\.aptcache\zc\1\custom\stylesheetsor equivalent, so I'm thinking something like $CUSTOM_PATH + "\stylesheets"would do the trick.keith

Hello everyone,I'm planning an upgrade from 5.3 to 6.0, and have found that the Javaclasspath is handled differently with the new version. Using Arbortext Editor 5.3, I can use 'set javaclasspath' in the ACLfile specified with the APTRC environment variable. That doesn't workin 6.0, giving the error: '[A11682] Cannot execute the "setjavaclasspath" command because the Java Virtual Machine has beenloaded.' Is there another way to set the Java classpathprogrammatically? I have a clumsy workaround of setting theAPTCLASSPATH environment variable, but that's not preferred. Anysuggestions? >> Randy

Hi,Hopefully this isa quick and easy query...If I want to publish straight to a DMP Image where should I install the DMP application? on the PE server or on the local machine that may be used to initiate the publish?ThanksPete

Folks:PTC's technical support did not or could not help me. So... I am asking thesmarter bunch here.Installing IsoDraw, a license file is required during install process, andthis is not acceptable. My IT is starting to install all software bypushing it out as a SMI package, I am requesting software to be made intoSMI packages.But, IsoDraw installer runs and hangs waiting for a license file, youcannot cancel it without killing the install.Arbortext Editor installs without prompting for a license, but PTC's TechSupport seemed confused on how to have a request made to engineering tochange IsoDraw to match AESo, does anyone know how to satisfy the dialogue box and allow the installto continue, can a bogus file be used. Then the IsoDraw can complain atfirst use and the valid license used. The licensing has to happen after theinstall not during. Often these packages are sent out at night.Any help please...

Does anyone have any experience with poid_list_search_attr. I am having a heck of a time trying to figure out the query string I need to use with the function.Thanks in advance.

Anybody using IsoDraw to do CGM for IADS? Do you have any issues? specially with text display?Thanks!Matt

Actually I got a requirement that to get the Page number of a topic which was cross-referenced(xref). When I use cross reference style in Styler it gives the respective page number in the PDF with the links.But I don't want to create link just want to show the page number as text. Is it possible through styler. Is this possible with modify of the styler formatting element?Could you please advise me.

Found something else odd in the upgrade to 5.4 M100 from 5.3 M040.I had an ACL function in the instance.acl file that resided in a particular doctype, and it was called from the FOSI of said doctype to return a value to a savetext (occurred upon opening).With the upgrade, opening a document of this doctype would throw an error that this function (defined in FOSI) was not found. The only way to get this func to load before the FOSI needed it was to move it to the init directory.Doesn't hurt anything, just wondering why the change, or did I miss something (maybe a 'fix' that just showed up)? I guess I was just trying to avoid loading doctype-specific functions on startup if I didn't have to...-Jason

Hi everybody, if they have somebody who can help me to solve this probleme, it would be much apreciated.I try to select all projected text in illustration like text inside directional arrow, and from this macro a would be able to convert to path all selected text, to make sure it will not tilt on our publishing system.Thanks!!!