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Available for immediate downloading from PTC's support site is theArbortext 5.4 M090 release. This maintenance release includes bug fixes only. If you want to knowall the details about this release, please check out the release notes<">https://www.ptc.com/view?im_dbkey=124939> . If you have any questionsabout the release schedule, please reference the PTC Product Calendarat:

Adepters:I got an e-mail this morning from PTC announcing Arbortext Editor and Publishing Engine 6.0. The link to the editor works fine and I was able to download. However, the PE link only shows me PE 5.3 and 5.4. Anyone else tried this (assuming you have a technical support subscription)?DaveSiemens

I'm wondering how you use the 3d transform command within macros.I want to let users set a rotation angle and then click on x, y or z icons to rotate that amount on a 3d drawing.Problem is that macro help doesn't explain how it's used.The syntax is just:3D TRANSFORM 3d-matrixand the example is:#stretching the drawing to double size#along the y-axis3D TRANSFORM 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0I can't find any reference to this 3d-matrix - how are we to know what each number represents?I've recorded some macros setting the Y angle rotation to 90 degrees but this hasn't helped me understand the matrix any better as it comes up with:3D Transform 0 0 (-1) 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1No record of 90 degrees in that matrix, so I guess one of the numbers - "1" or "(-1)" must refer to the 90 degrees.

Hi,I have 2GB physical RAM. I had 2048 MB virtual memory. I was able to setdiffmemory to 5000. I doubled my virtual memory to 4096. If I got anythingout of this change, it is only incremental ... I have just run atdiffmemory=5200. (diffmemory=5200 might have worked before my change, I'mnot sure if I tried it). I can't run diffmemory=5500 now and couldn'tbefore, either.I expected at least a + 2000 capability in diffmemory after making thechange.-- Paul Nagai

I've a macro that writes the date and drawing name to a text file, and I want to make a list of drawings with just a specific date.I'm trying to use the batch command to get values from the text file but can't make it work.Has anyone used this along with the "find" function to find a specific string within a line of a text file?I've tried it a few ways so far and it either gives me an unknown macro command error, or it crashes Isodraw altogether - I obviously don't understand the syntax of the function or how to extract what it returns.Do you make a variable of the character position that "find" gets?Example text file (it's actually got more in than just the date and the drawing name) is:10-03-2011,11:57,Tim Sharp,export cgm THA1003-291.cgm10-03-2011,12:01,Tim Sharp,export cgm THA1003-297.cgm11-03-2011,12:11,Tim Sharp,export cgm NPA79-170a.cgm11-03-2011,12:12,Tim Sharp,export cgm NPA79-179.cgmI want to find lines that have the current date (11-03-2011), then extract the drawing names (

Hi All,My customer has 3 or 4 users who access Arbortext Editor frequently and also frequently work across a range of workspaces rather than just one and are experiencing problems with the speed of connecting the Editor to the ACM in order to browse for content.Their workspaces correspond to different categories of content which are held in different context Libraries as follows: Mechanical Engineering Marketing SalesThe delay occurs when the user is connecting to the Context (Library) after clicking the Finish button or changing Workspace.For instance a user estimates it takes him 45 seconds or more to connect to the Marketing Library. He works most regularly in this folder and therefore has the most cached work in the workspace.They have asked users to connect on their own PC using the administrator's login details and they connect noticeably more quickly, also if connecting as themselves on a different PC there is less delay which is leading them to think this problem is to do with

Any ideas on getting a GIF out of IsoDraw? It does not appear to be an export option, but is there an extension that can be used or has someone come up with a relatively simple method for getting a GIF.

Hi everyone,We're in the process of switching over to a new server (Arbortext PE 5.3 patch M190 on a Windows Server 2003) and most languages are working ok with the exception of Chinese Simplified and Korean.I've done some comparisons of the setups between the two servers and everything from font timestamps, to ccf/pdfcf configurations to FOSI's all appear identical.Our print doctypes are FOSI-driven. The Korean FOSI does not specify any font family names, rather just the font style, size, posture, etc. We rely on tfontsub.cf to map the Korean fonts ("windowsonly:" section):#Korean:Serif/kor -> BatangSanserif/kor -> DotumMonoser/kor -> BatangCheMonosans/kor -> DotumCheWe have manually reinstalled the Batang and Golim TrueType font collections (which include the above named fonts) and rebooted the server. We continue to get errors from the direct-to-PDF log, such as: Cannot load font: Batang, type=SYS, encoding=unicode, tfm=Batang.rrruWe have identical setups for Japanese an

Hi,Does Epic supports the Oasis XML catalog standard?If yes, from which version?

I've embedded Arbortext Editor 5.4 in an ActiveX control in an HTML page as described in the Customizer's Guide (p. 183) and in samles/web-integration/embedded_scripting.html.My question is, how to get access to the AOM/DOM of a document loaded in the ActiveX control from the HTML page embedding the Arbortext Editor control using JavaScript/JScript?Here is the relevant part of my HTML page:...<object id="editor" classid="clsid:3990811F-C23D-448E-B893-54549C334960"height="100%" width="100%"><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" for="editor"> var documentFlags = 0x0000; var windowFlags = 0x949FF; var aclWindowId; function OpenDoc(docUrl) { aclWindowId = editor.open(docUrl, documentFlags, windowFlags); }</script>...What should I do now with the window id returned by the open method to access the AOM/DOM?Any help will be appreciated.Roman

Does anyone know how I can control the headings thatare shown in the UI?i.e. Title, Location and RankI also may want to populate the Location column with variable data.

Hi All,I am pretty new to Arbortext. I am not getting a fair idea about following,1.How we can use Arbortext for generating manuals by taking data from Windchill?2.What is Bursting? Could you Please let me know what this term exactly means? How this is achieved in using Arbortext and Windchill?3.What are the guides I need to refer to achieve this functionality?Thanks in Advance for your Time, Manisha

Our illustration group is looking to move to the use of lines with arrows for some of our dimensional callouts (we've used dots in the past). One of the problems that we've run into is that the request requires the use of 1/2 point lines. Utilizing the preset start and end options we're are not getting small enough arrows for the purpose.Is there a way to set another end style? I see there is a range of 0-46, but no way to add or alter one. I have a feeling this may be an SPR, but wanted to pose the question to the community first. If anyone has a solution, please let me know.

I have a macro that writes filenames to a text file using fwrite.However, I don't want repeats, so want to check that the filename doesn't already exist in the text file before writing it.I use the fwrite command but can't find a corresponding read command. Is this possible within the macros?

Hi All,Using Arbortext 5.4, I want to set up a centralized zipped configuration. I have set up a deploydirectory, as instructed in the documentation, with the APTDEPLOYPATH variable pointing to it. Thesite directory in this deploy directory contains the siteprefs.xml and the custom.zip file. So farso good. Now in the siteprefs.xml file I want to point to the APTMENUFILE environment variable atour custom menu configuration file editmenu.cf. Let's say that this file lives under custom\lib.The documentation says "For any preference that has a path in it’s value, you can use a special %Scharacter in the path to represent the .aptcache\site\lib directory." Now that's fine, except thatI guess this refers to a compact installation, while this is a full installation and the zippedcustomization is unpacked to something like C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\PTC\Arbortext\Editor\.aptcache\zc\1.Does anyone know of a similar "special character" or other method that

Hiya all,Here is your Friday afternoon puzzler. Copy, set paste=mybuf, setpaste=default, paste behaves differently when the copy source is insideEditor instead of outside of Editor. 5.3 m110.Here is my "outside of Editor copy source" use case:1) Open Editor.2) Copy text from any source outside of Editor.3) set paste=mybuf4) Copy text within Editor.5) set paste=default6) Paste. This command fails because the clipboard is empty.Here is my "inside of Editor copy source" use case:1) Open Editor.2) Copy text from within Editor.3) set paste=mybuf4) Copy text within Editor.5) set paste=default6) Paste. This command pastes the material copied in step 2.I don't think the outside of Editor copy source step 6 should fail. Am I notunderstanding some feature-ness of named buffers or do you agree that thisis unexpected behavior?-- Paul Nagai

Are there any PTC classes for IsoDraw? I am interested in getting some training. I would be interested in both classroom or online classes. I have gone through the tutorials and I really think I could get more from a structured class.So does anyone know of any classes out there?Thanks,Keith Howard

Hi James,Is it possible (or on your road map for future features) to support aQueryinteracting with datamerge?-- Paul Nagai

I would like to add messages in some of my macros, but want them to stay on screen for a set period and then disappear rather than having to click on them.Can this be done?

Hello!I use Java (the plugin is made) for modifying the content of the opened XML/SGML files (Arbortext 5.2).How should I modify the color of the nodes (I mean programming mode)?As far as I'm concerned, the usage of _font nodes is forbidden (a-la <_font>text</_font>). At least it leads to errors in SGML.Then we should use processing instructions (PI). How should we create them?The standard Java DOM method createProcessingInstruction() does not work when we deal with SGML.I think that it's because of the different format of PIs in SGML and XML.Should we use Acl OID commands/functions (goto_oid, insert_tag)?But I have met the problem of incorrect cursor positioning after Application.messageBox execution in the onclick event handler.1)calling dialog via Application.messageBox(...)2)getting the first oid of the required node3)Setting cursor before the start tag via "goto_oid(oid,-2)".4) Trying to insert PI via "it _font" command. It leads to splitting textnode in fact.If I comm

Testing 5.3 on a virtural Win7 pc and I get the following error:[A12480]Arbortext Editor was not able to obtain a license for your use. Feature Arbotext Editor:unable to find and read license file. (have you run the License Administrator program?) I ran the License Adminstrator and there is a 6005.lic with the correct key in the license directory.I have reinstalled and changed keys with the same error.Any ideas? Thanks for your help.

When we have finished or amended each of our Isodraw drawings, we export a CGM version of the file for use by our authors.We never edit CGM versions of our drawings, they are just used as a convenient format to add to Word documents.We've found through experience that an old version of CGM works best for us - "Model Profile (ISO 8632:1992/Am.1: 1994)".But, because it is an old format, it pops up an error message saying it doesn't support things like callouts or object infos.I have a macro that creates the CGM files and saves them in the right directory, but it always pops up the warning message. Is there a way to suppress the error message?

Hi,Support has said that datamerge is working as designed by returning (as stored in the database) as and that it is up to me to convertmarkup from < to < on output via the XSLT. That conversation is ongoing.BUT if one of you XSL gurus knows how to do this, maybe I can leave supportalone.I have tried swapping the overall output method to text (that was a hailmary) and believe this is the "best" answer but it fails: <xsl:value-of select="translate(self::node(),'<','<')"<br"/>disable-output-escaping="yes"/>The following "works" in that it returns the string to Editor with a ! wherethere should be a < so the select and the translate are working: <xsl:value-of select="translate(self::node(),'<','!')"<br"/>disable-output-escaping="yes"/>All attempts to use the < fail with the following:FATAL ERROR:javax.xml.transform. TransformerException: Error reported by XML parser.ERROR:Failed to update query: (my query name)com.arbortext.

It looks like the stylesheet parameter has not been provided in the composition parameters array: you only specify outputFile please try to specify the stylesheet full path and stylesheet type as well. That is: the three required parameters to perform batch composition are outputFile, stylesheet, stylesheetTypeThe first two should be absolute paths, the third should be "style" if using Stylersheets.