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Now, in order to capture the HOST ID (used to be Server ID, I think, withthe old licensing application), you run cpu_id.exe (be sure to pick theright one for your architecture ... there is an x86 and an x64 version) anytime you want. It is not wrapped inside of the now old License Administratorwhich means you can execute it before an install. This makes even the longer(and somewhat variable although in my limited number 6.0 license requestseven that seems to have stabilized) return time on a Flexera license moot... if you're able to plan even just a little ahead.Specifically, you can run cpu_id.exe on a server well before a plannedinstall window, or even have IT do it if you don't have hands-on, and stillgenerate a license file to be rolled up with the installation itself.Similarly, you can distribute the cpu_id.exe to a set of users ahead of aninstall window and generate all of the licenses once you have everyone'sHOST ID ... in one session with the license app on ptc.com.-- Paul Naga

Hi all,I just ran into a hiccup installing / configuring a Publishing Engine 6.0m010 server. Apparently one or more of our PE licenses is/are floatinglicenses which require a license server to host them. Apparently a phonecall with licensing (too late today) on Monday is all it will take toconvert the licenses from floating to fixed. (Support was a little confusedregarding why they would be floating ... and, in fact, I *think* some are,some aren't.)This came as a surprise to me because in the < 6.0 world, we have alwaysinstalled our PE licenses as fixed ... directly on each server. (We arerunning a license server for our floating Print Composer licenses but havenot used it for anything else.)I *could* install a license server for the 6.0+ world however it is not howwe want or intend to run (why add a moving part?) so I am hoping to avoid it... especially as I go into our vulnerability assessment.FWIW: It took 13 minutes for the Flexera licenses to generate and arrive ine-mail.-- Pau

Adepters:We're using AE 5.4 M100 in a system that uses XIncludes extensively in elements similar to topic maps with nested topics (but NOT DITA). If I ensure that the document referenced by an XInclude is writable (that is, I look at the status with Windows Explorer and verify that it is not read-only), and then open the parent container element that is not writable, I'm having limited success. Of 5 machines I've tested on (3 XP and 2 W7) only one of the XP machines allows me to edit the referenced XInclude element. In all of the other cases, AE says that the XIncluded content is read-only. In fact, I have two of the XP machines set up side-by-side with identical environments, and one allows me to edit the XIncluded content and the other does not. The only way I can edit the XIncluded content consistently is if I also make the parent or container document writable. This is not desirable.So, this one has me stumped. It reminds me of a problem we had years ago when we used file entities

In the next two or three weeks I’ll be posting some more information about the forthcoming features provided in Styler in the M020 release of Arbortext 6.0.There were a lot of new features we wanted to provide in 6.0 and we managed to fit a lot it, but some features had to wait. So we’re taking the unusual step of adding some new functionality in the M020 release to bring our customers some extra, important capabilities.Each posting over the next few weeks will focus on a specific area of new functionality to give you a good idea of what’s to come.Firstly, we will look at the improvements we’re making to indexing. Traditionally, Styler documents have had a single index. We’ve now added functionality to allow users to create multiple indexes in the same document. You can also scope indexes to your XML hierarchy too, providing indexes scoped to chapters, sections and so on.Next we will look out our new EPUB output. EPUB is becoming the standard eBook format and we’re happy to be able to

Dear All tformat ltd and DATACOPY publishing solutions gmbh, are pleased to announceAPP World 2011 which will be held in London on the 9th and 10th of May2011. This Arbortext APP (formerly 3B2) software users' and industry event will beheld over 2 days and contain managerial sessions and technical workshops.The event will also give you the opportunity to meet and share experienceswith other users' and industry professionals from around the world. Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher (APP), formerly known as the 3B2Publishing System, has been driving solutions for complex publishingrequirements for over 24 years. 2011 will see the release of APP version 11which will be one of the main event topics.For more details on this and our previous users' meetings, please visit

I'm working with XML files (using the NLM journalpublishing 3.0 DTD) in Arbortext 5.3. I'm modifying a set of ACL functions that are used to find author/date

Just wondering if others have experienced a similar problem in Editor - particularly when ACL code is tied to the processing of tags in the document, and users move document tags around by dragging them; causing a stack overflow exception to be thrown and subsequently crashing Editor.I'm just imagining how the Editor might use multiple threads to process user input (such as dragging around elements), which might trigger some sort of concurrency issue by calling the ACL on multiple (too many) stack frames, thereby causing the crash. I am wondering if there's a way to configure Editor so that it won't call the ACL until AFTER all (queued) user input events have finished processing - like "wait until no user input appears for 0.5 seconds" or something.

My curiosity got the better of me, and I had to figure out how to do this with FOSI. <pause-for-laughter/>It's relatively easy to do with figure and table in a container element:<document>...<container><figure><graphic/><caption>...</caption></figure><table>... </table></container>... The container element starts a local pageset that has: - a wide left margin to create space on the left side of the page for the figure and a column on the right side of the page for the table, and- a region in the space on the left side of the page that outputs the figureThe e-i-c for figure suppresses and saves #CONTENT to a textid, which is output from the region. The local pageset is scoped to the container element, so the global pageset resumes without the figure (on a new page) when the table is over.A graphic showing the output is attached. I added this example to the book. Suzanne Napoleonwww.FOSIexpert.com"WYSIWYG is last-century t

Adepters:We're using AE 5.4 patch M100 and are having a problem wherein our original doctype headers are getting unwanted modifications (internal subset is getting removed). This only occurs when the document is edited from a larger document that references the edited document via an XInclude. If edited stand-alone, the doctype header remains intact.Our original doctype header looks like this:%textents;%idsents;]>After a save (when edited from the larger document), the header looks like this:It is imperative that these doctype headers remain intact as the ENTITY definitions are required in future access to the document.Anyone have any suggestions? By the way, we're using a custom schema (no external DTD).Dave HintzSiemens

I would like to find the table overflow condition while formatting. Is it any conditions available in the Styler?

Hi,With styler 6.0 in APP mode, when a large table breaks onto the nextpage is it possible to instruct Styler/APP to continue the table inthe second column of the page rather than the first?Thanks,Richard Steadman

Hi,In Styler 6.0 using APP formatting, I'm trying to extract thecontents of a part title to a running header reference like this:var ref = new fRunningHeaderReference;ref.groups = fRunningHeaderReference.GROUP_2;ref.extractText = false;ref.text = formatting.evaluateXPath('string()');//ref.text = formatting.evaluateXPath('string(@navtitle)');formatting.addReference(ref);I tried this in a "title in part" context, which is how itappears in the resolved document, and also in part (when I tryto grab the navtitle attribute).When I try to use the text that was (hopefully) extracted,in a page region with this code:var text = formatting.evaluateRunningHeader(2,"editorDom0",1,0,0,20);I end up with this string being displayed in the region:/RDStyle/ResolvedMapIs there a problem using these running header references witha resolved DITA document?Thanks,Richard

Hi all,Now that IsoDraw 7.2 includes batch export in the app menu instead of an extension the command line syntax is broken for calling the batch export function. I s this still possible?Old syntax:IsoDraw72.exe -ext batch7_en.isp -s"my source dir" -d"my target dir"' -f24 -m"my macro"

Hi all,Has anyone ever customized the object browser window or is it even possible?[cid:image004.jpg@01CC5CCB.429D8E00]Thanks in advance,BrianBrian York-<">mailto:->Exmark Mfg. Co.[The Next Lazer]

I would like to check the length of line in a particular pen type. (ie. I need every line in thin pen type to be 20pt)

I'm working with XML files (using the NLM journalpublishing 3.0 DTD) in Arbortext 5.3. I'm modifying a set of ACL functions that are used to find author/date in-text cross-references (<xref>) and match them to items in the reference list (<ref>s in the <ref-list>). This is code that we had been using for more than 10 years with SGML files. The functions find a untagged date-like string of numbers and then looks at the text to the left of the date-link string to see if it can match a combination of authors and date to an item in the reference list.If I include a response() after finding each date-like string, then the functions correctly finds and tags most (130 tagged <xref>s of 180 dates in my test document; only 5 unmatched; the other 45 are not <xref>s). However, if I remove the response() then the functions get stuck with constantly a increasing selection (the longest I saw contained more than 10,000 words) so that no <xref> tags are inserted int

We're starting to create Schematron files to validate our XML content, now that support for them has been introduced in Arbortext Editor 6.However, when writers on the team use the "Check Completeness" feature, they receive a list of warnings that are completely safe, in addition to legitimate Schematron issues. For example:DITA Markup ProblemsWARNING:"foo.xml" is missing an xml:lang attribute on the root element.DITA Reference ProblemsWARNING:Unusual value "new-window:PDF" specified for type attribute on xref element in "foo.xml".WARNING: External/Peer reference to "bar.pdf" on xref element in "foo.xml" is not represented in a correct formatWhile Arbortext may think that every root element, for example, needs an xml:lang attribute defined, we put ours in during build time in order to support multiple languages. And new-window:PDF is also an attribute used for special purposes for the build.Is there some way I can override or "block" checks that I know are not necessary? At the least I

Has anyone experienced any problems with bringing in CGM files to Arbortext? The CGM files were created with Corel X3 and when I call them out in my Arbortext 5.4, CPA 1.6 document, so much extra space is inserted around the graphic that the title gets pushed off the page. I have put the hscale and vscales to 80 and also tried turning scalefit on but the title gets pushed off the page. Using a tif file gives me light lines around the borders of the graphic, which is unacceptable. Has anyone found a way around this?

how can I attach an event to a hotspot via javascript, so when it's clicked i can return its index name?I have the object written as such:<object id="webcgm" type="image/cgm;Version=4;ProfileId=WebCGM" name="webcgm_name" width="100%" height="100%"> <param name="src" value="../figure/image.cgm"></param></object>This graphics already contains several hotspots.

Hi, i'm looking for a manual on the IsoView WebCGM API for javascript. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'd like to see something with examples too, but i can't find anything. All I have so far is the stuff from w3: http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-webcgm21-20080917/WebCGM21-ECMA.html   I'm really not good at reading how to use this, i learn much better from examples, and then apply the knowledge.

I'm not sure if it is me and the file I'm working or if I'm having a problem with Epic 6. The file I am working with is fairly large (just over 3 meg with numerous file, text and graphic entities). The problem I am seeing is that occasionally (not every time, but often enough) Epic 6 will lock up when I am trying to find a string of text using the 'find/replace' dialog box (NOT the FIND TAG/ATTRIBUTE). It also only seems to happen when I am searching "UP" the document (going back through the previous text). Has anyone else has a similar problem? If so then I'll submit this as a possible bug they need to fix.ThanksLynn

New Arbortext user here--We have directories of graphics on our file system, organized by products or by purpose. How do you set up similar sets of reusable graphics that many authors will use in many documents. For example, we have a directory of logos. How would you best set those up in Arbortext CMS for use by any author?Thank you,Lisa A

Hi,I have installed a fresh copy of Windows XP on my PC and installed ISO Draw 6.0 as follows:Left the parallel port dongle plugged inRan the setupScreen prompt advising remove the USB (no mention of parallel port) dongle and click continueI removed the dongle anywayFnished installtionOut dongle back in and launched programError: “The hardware copy-protection for the program has not been installed correctly. Please refer to the chapter ‘installation’ in your manual.”I’ve tried every combination when it comes to having the dongle removed or left in and still get the same error. I’ve also tried installing the latest Sentinel drivers but had no luck.Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hello,I am wondering if an 'Instance' feature is available in isodraw 7.1? The reasons are obvious, I have not managed to find something that is similar but may have a different name. Can anyone shed any light?Thank you Alan

Is the a viewer for .iso files that our non illustrators can use?