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Hello !Arbortext 5.3 + XML -question: I want to use entities like □ and other from lib\charent.cf file, but how can I make it happen ? now when I type that entity, Arbortext replaces it as □.What options should I modify etc. ?Please help, I tried to understand Arbortext Help - good stuff, but too much for a newbie like me !

Hi all,This question may be silly, but I am totally new to this Arbortext 5.3 and I cannot make head or tail of anything I have a pdf file and a style sheet (.style). I just have to add a new element onto the pdf. This element's value will be taken from the .xml file. But i dont know how to do it I couldn't find any good tutorial site also.One more thing. Is there any option to create a pdf immediately in 53.3 so as to check if the changes made have been applied?In my system, the Arbortext PE convertes the .xml into .pdf with the help of the .style style sheet. Can any one of you please help me out?!Let me know for any other doubts as this is a very urget issue for meThanks in advance.Madhu!

I was wondering if it is possible to increment a variable myself in a footer or header.A footer looks likes this:Page 10/(11 blank)So I was hoping I could increment a counter variable myself in the footer or save the content of a counter variable to a text variable and add 1. I have a feeling this is not possible. I did create a second page counter to keep track of the blank pages but my numbers are off so I wanted to check for a shortcut before I tweak it.folioct,\/(\,pageno1-ct+1,\ blank)\ obviously doesn't work.

Hi All,Is there a way to determine who's been using a Floating license? i.e. is there a logfile somewhere which logs either username or ip address?ThanksPete

I have a user that is trying to view information/files through IE that are provided by another company. I'm trying to find out more information from him but at the moment he is telling me that the ISOView 7 'plugin' is provided by the external company. The problem that he is experiencing is that every time he tries to open a webpage with this information on that requires ISOView the windows installer pops up and asks for the location of the ISOView installer (.msi) and stops the page from loading. If you cancel these two boxes and stop the installer then the page loads fine and he is able to continue.   So far I have asked him to talk to this external company and see if we can get hold of the installer, as I can't find a copy of it here.   But I am just wondering if anyone has come across this before? Is the only solutions to uninstall and reinstall ISOView? Does ISOView 7 still exist as just a plugin? I have managed to download the WebCGM plugin... is that the same thing? &n

Dear fellow Adepters,Does anybody know if PTC has publicized some sort of roadmap regarding GUI customization of Arbortext Editor?I'm investigating the feasibility of developing a JavaScript based data binding framework for XUI, something that would be a major undertaking. Basically, I find XUI sound. But programming dynamic user interfaces using the DOM is utterly developer hostile, so I'd like to abstract that away.Given that it's 10+ years since XUI was introduced as sequel to Galaxy/ACL Designer, and that Arbortext Editor seems to become a single-platform application, I wouldn't be too surprised if PTC had something Windows specific in their sleeve (based on XAML/WinRT, like WPF/Silverlight). I'd hate to learn about such a thing after having spent months plumbing XUI...Thoughts, anybody?- Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to you all!

Arbortext 6.0 M030 is now available for download. To check out what is new and changed, refer to the release notes athttp://www.ptc.com/WCMS/files/134877/en/prodrel-m030.pdf.Download is available by logging into your account at http://www.ptc.com/support/and selecting "Order or Download Software Updates".Let us know if you have any questions.Thanks,Pushpinder ToorArbortext Product Manager

Hi,I've got a strange problem. Using Editor 5.3 m110 and the table includedbelow, I am unable to get a rule trailing the merged cell preceding thefooter. Anyone seen this before? Known bug or "feature"? Got a workaround?I manually added the rowsep="1" on the cell in question. The tableinterface wouldn't do it.<table frame="top"><title>can't force rule after merged cell preceding footer </title><tgroup cols="4"><colspec colname="col1"/"><colspec colname="col2"/"><colspec<br/>colname="col3"/><colspec colname="col4"/"><thead><row><entry colsep="0" valign="top"><para>Header</para></entry><entry colsep="0" valign="top"></entry><entry colsep="0" valign="top"></entry><entry colsep="0" valign="top"></entry></row></thead><tfoot><row><entry colsep="0" valign="top"><para>Footer</para></entry><entry colsep="0" valign="top"&

Need to extract content in <title>, <para> and <trim.para> tags from a moderate sized (1100 pgs) xml document. I've been checking into regex (but repeatedly see folks say it's not the best tool for this), but I don't know anything about XML DOM parsers or stuff like that (just a simple arbortext user.) Is there any easy way to do this? Either within Arbortext or a simple tool I can find online to parse an xml file and dump content to text or whatever based on what tags I select? Request advise, over. (Bob, Bristol RI)Thanks all for the quick replies.Suzanne's write-untagged command was perfect - quick and so simple, even a caveman could.... well, you know.Happy holidays and thanks again. (Bob, Bristol RI)

Hi all,Surprisingly, I was only recently asked to do automatically populate thePDF document properties. I ran into one glitch along the way. Although thedocumentation in help is correct, the namespace information on the web ismisleading. The key names are not capitalized and they need to be. Thenamespace info with the misleading references to "title" for example thatshould be "Title" as possible Key values:<usetext source="!<atidmd:DocumentMetaData source="local"><br /><atidmd:DocView mode="bookmarks"<br />destination="topofdocument"></atidmd:DocView><br /><atidmd:DocInfo><br /><atidmd:Entry><br /><atidmd:Key>Title</atidmd:Key><br /><atidmd:Value>Your Title Here - Can be text variable set from attr on<br />root</atidmd:Value><br /></atidmd:En

Hi, Arbortext-ers!You may have seen from a previous post that the Arbortext entry on Wikipedia has been removed. To maintain a neutral point of view and to avoid conflicts of interest, we (PTC) cannot re-create the page. To best adhere to Wikipedia’s policies, we believe the content should be created by others. You can see a prior version of that page here: http://web.archive.org/web/20100701101156/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbortext

http://www.salon.com/2011/09/02/paperless_cockpit/The most notable part about this article is:1. It's written from the end user perspective - an actual pilot who will actual be using a paperless solution.2. The idea of the paperless anything around something as complex as a plane has gotten to Salon.com (not exactly the place I expected to read about S1000D or ATA material).

We have just upgraded to 6.0 M020. Since doing so the XSL-FO stylesheets that we use to produce landscape pages are publishing the pages as PDFs upside down. The page is set up as a 11x8.5. Has anyone else experienced this type of behavior? I have tested this using Print Composer and PE Server I get the same results with both.Thanks in advance for all your help.

How to start and restart the Publishing Engine?Is there any specific way to do that?I have a custom style sheet from PTC, need to copy those files to the folder specified in PE server, then install updates, then I need to restart PE server and tomcat server.Reagrds,Sudhi

Hi Steve-- You can execute Arbortext commands from the command line in Windowsusing the -c switch, which means you could set up a batch file to dowhat you want. The batch file would look roughly like this: (untested, debugging leftas an exercise) :: resave.bat :: set the following based on your version/environmentset arbortext=C:\Program Files\PTC\Arbortext Editor\bin\x64\editor.exefor %%i in (%1) do "%arbortext%" -c "save" "%%i" HTH --Clay

Adepters:We use XIncludes extensively for all topics in our custom schema (and, no, we are not using DITA). By default, when you open an entire book, all of the XIncludes are expanded inline. Usually, this is a good thing. However, some of our books have thousands of XIncluded objects and it takes 20-30 minutes to open. I've searched the Help extensively looking for some way to not expand the XIncludes authomatically during an open - but have failed to find any help.Does anyone know of a method for doing this? I would like to have a preference that says, "Don't expand XIncluded objects inline". Then, you could selectively expand those you need to see and edit.Thanks,DaveSiemens* Using Arbortext Editor 5.4, latest patch.

I'm using the atidmd:DocumentMetaData tag to produce automatic bookmarks however I cannot get it to nest correctly. I have a chapter level title that I'm capturing then a subpara title within the chapter.My string declaration is as follows:Chapter Level: <stringdecl textid="chapbmtitle.txt" hotlink="1">Subpara Level: <stringdecl textid="para0bmtitle.txt" hotlink="1">My savetext for the chapter and subpara tagsare as follows:Chapter Level: <savetext textid="chapbmtitle.txt" conrule="!<atidmd:Bookmark state="closed"><atidmd:Title>!,\CHAPTER \,chapnbrtxt,\. \,chptitle,!</atidmd:Title>!,para0bmtitle.txt,!</atidmd:Bookmark>!" placemnt="after" append="1">Subpara Level: <savetext textid="para0bmtitle.txt" conrule="!<atidmd:Bookmark"><atidmd:title>!,para0bmNum.txt,\ \,p0title,!</atidmd:title></atidmd:bookmark>!" placemnt="before" append="1">My usetext on the root tag is as follows:<us

Hello,In our schema we have a attribute called rowsep which is available in <table>, <row>, <colspec> and <entry>. I want to hide this attribute in all elements except <entry>.I tried the dialoghidden option in the dcf file but that will hide the attribute in all element. Is there a workaround of this.Karthik

Hi,We are looking for any ACL training targeted for Developers. I contacted PTC and it seems the self-training they used to offer was discontinued. Wondering if they are any third party vendor classes or self training targeted for ACL Development.Thanks,Raj Pasumarthi

Hi EveryoneI'm having a problem with import/export that i'm hoping someone else may have encountered before!When creating a new map template, the schema (valid and working in Editor and XML Spy etc) I am loading in is coming up with an error and resluts in missing some of the element definitions. (Arbx 6.0 M010)Error dialogue:Schema has been loaded, however there had been some unresolved Entities, Error log file bla bla ...Error log sample lines:Group Not found :h:inlineReferenced Element not found :h:divReferenced Element not found :h:pIt is a custom schema with a number of modules, imports, includes and dependancies. The missing parts come from references in one module pointing to elements, simple types and groups called from an 'included' xhtml-transitional.xsd (standard) module.As everything is fine using this schema for parsing and every other XML tool i have tried, i am thinking that the DTD/Schema reader in the import/export map editor does not like either imports/includes or co

Hi All,We have a customer that has 1,000’s of lines of legacy XSLT templates written for E3 4.x which is using Saxon 6.x.They want to upgradeto Editor 6.x, so we would like to convert/migrate these templates as quickly as possible to Saxon 9.x.The functionality of the templates will not change, so a straight conversion/migration seems the best option, however it's not very straightforward...Does anyone out there knowthe quickest way to achieve this?Has anyone actuallyinteracted with the people who develop Saxon at all?ThanksPete

I created a page set in Styler and then added source edits. I originally set "First Page Header" to None, but now I want to change that to "Same". Is there a quicker way to change that other than recreating the page set from scratch? (And if so, what if I wanted to make the same change for the footer?)I assume I need a different page set per section if the headers or footers are going to be different?

Well I am finally back to working style sheets. Been a while. I recall that one or two folks have been working with the LOGSA provided 40051 XSL FO. I'd like to discuss these files with anyone who'd care to comment. Off line would probably be best, so respond to -.The folks I'm working for now are tasked to update the files currently available from LOGSA (written to 40051-1/-2) to the recently released 40051-1A/-2A DTD. We've been experiencing a fair number of errors and would like to hear if anyone else has had problems with the files.Many thanksLynn

I'm trying to add metadata and bookmarks when publishing a document to PDF using a FOSI stylesheet. I've added a usetext to the root tag however everytime I try to apply the FOSI changes I receive a "Generated text contains unbalanced tags, i.e. begin tags without ends, or vice versa. Cannot insert."I would appreciate any help you could offer,FOSI Code:<e-i-c gi="comdtinst"><charlist><usetext source="!<atidmd:DocumentMetaData source="atend"></atidmd:DocumentMetaData>!" placemnt="before"></usetext><usetext source="!<atidmd:DocumentMetaData"><atidmd:outline><atidmd:bookmark><atidmd:title>Book Title</atidmd:title></atidmd:bookmark></atidmd:outline></atidmd:documentmetadata>!" placemnt="after"></usetext></charlist></e-i-c>

Great news, with the upcoming release of the Arbortext Aerospace and Defense (AAD) software, 4.4 M030, users will be able to publish Creo 3D to the IETP viewer!  In the prior maintenance release, AAD 4.4 M020, a new enhancement allowed CSDB users  (through Arbortext Authoring Interface) to insert PCZ files and to select interactions contained within Creo 3D formats to be inserted automatically into a Data Module.  Now with the AAD 4.4 M030 release, these interactions can be initiated within the IETP view via a hyperlink. There are many types of interactions that can be contained in a 3D model, the prime one being animations.The Creo View integration with the IETP Viewer will allow users to click on a Data Module text hyper link that will open Creo View in a new pane and initiate the interaction authored into the DM.Look for future posts, we will be providing a short demo of this new functionality.For the release dates, please see the Product Calendar.