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Greetings,I'm looking for anyone who has had experience working with the linenum() function while processing documents - particularly with tables.A function in our software creates XSLFO in order to generate a PDF. Prior to going to a PDF, we generate FOSI and feed the document into the linenum() function which counts the lines of content so we can determine how much content is on a page.This works great, until we reach tables, especially tables which span pages. Here, it either ignores the table, or causes an inaccurate count. This is especially true of tables which have a <thead>.Using Arbortext PE 1.8 (Arbortext 5.3 150)Any suggestions or help appreciated.Michael Friedman

I have remote users that currently conntect to a Windows 2000 Metaframe XP server, which shares Epic Editor 5.1. I have been tasked with upgrading our old Metaframe XP server to a Citrix XenApp 6.0 on a 64 bit Windows 2008 R2 server. That's fine.But, once I try to load Epic 5.1, the installer reports "The version of this file is not compatible with the version of windows that you are running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an x86 (32bit) or x64 (64bit) version of the program, then contact the program vendor. My server and OS are 64 bit, so that's what I need... but I am having a hard time finding if I can patch 5.1 or if I need to upgrade to a newer editor.My main problem is that it is very difficult to get my client to upgrade software. Any time we do that, it starts a very long testing and acceptance process. If there is any way to get 5.1 to work, it would be very helpful. Any advise is appreciated!

I have an implementation of Arbortext Editor 5.2, and I'm noticing that non-breaking spaces are being handled differently than all of my other character entities. Specifically, if I choose NOT to show special characters as symbols, all other character entities are shown as tags, but non-breaking spaces are still shown as spaces. In addition, I have a script that uses Range.ToMarkupString to parse some of the content, and any other character entitities appear as the appropriate XML markup. Non-breaking spaces appear as a single character (ASC 160). However, if I copy the relevant content to the clipboard and paste it into Notepad, I get the non-breaking space as .As far as I can tell, everything I'm doing is treating the nbsp the same as my other char entities, but Arbortext is doing something different with it. Am I missing something? Is there anything I can do to make the nbsp behave like the other character entities?Thanks,Rebecca DahlmanProject Performance Corporation

Hi all,I'm having a problem with Styler expressing whitespace in our PDF output. Please see the following code snippet and attached jpg of the output. When I manually remove the spaces between the para and section end tags, I have no problem. It seems that I should be able to strip the space somehow. I admit that the code is a little messy, but is there a way to ignore the whitespace in our output? We're using a FOSI-based Styler stylesheet. Thank you for your time and attention.Kind regards,Anne SPI-turvalausekkeet<title>SPI-turvalausekkeet</title><conbody><section> <title>Johdanto</title> Varoituksilla osoitetaantässä oppaassa vaaroja ja vakavuuden tasoa. Tutustu määritelmiin jamerkityksiin. Pocket Vieweriä ei ole tarkoitettu ensisijaiseksihälytyslähteeksi. </section><section> <title>Vaarat</title> Vaaratarkoittaa välitöntävaarallista tilannetta, jonka huomioimatta jättäminen johtaa vakavaanloukkaantumiseen tai kuolemaan.

Hello all,I am looking for an ACL function that will interrogate the DTD and tell me whether a given element is contextually correct for insertion before the first element in the exising SGML document. I know that the insert_tag function returns 1 on success and 0 on failure, but I need to know whether an element can be inserted in the current context before the insert_tag function is called.For example, the current docuement may contain only <section> elements which in turn contain <para> elements. For the sake of this example, lets say that <section elements can only be wrapped by <book> elements and not <magazine> elements. If the user executes a custom ACL function designed to wrap the current document in a <magazine> parent element, I want to systematically determine that this is an invalid action and notify the user before calling the insert_tag function and reacting to its error status.I’ve read about the content_model function that returns the c

Has anyone tried / succeeded returning XML markup from a datamerge? My < arebeing converted to < in the resulting markup.Data source is Excel.QueryType=FreeformI also noticed that the data type determination appears faulty. If I havethe following data in a column:512 MB1 GB12The 12 is not returned. If all rows in the column are numeric, the 12 isreturned. Setting the Excel cells to Text (instead of General) has noimpact.-- Paul Nagai

Hello everyone,Just wondering if anyone know how to set an attribute to read-only -in a specific context.In the .dcf I can set><attributeoption attribute="attname" dialoghidden="no" readonly="yes"/">But I need to set it at a specific level. The same @attname at theroot level needs to be editable.thanks,Tracey

Hello adepters,I have a weird problem that I experienced on a Windows-7 machine, I ran the same code on Windows-vista and it works.I have a comobox with listitems, if I tab over the combobox and select the item by arrows without hitting enter the value of the comobobox doesn't get updated with the selected item. If I hit enter after selecting the item or use the mouse, the value of the combobox gets updated. On windows vista, the value gets updated whether I hit enter or not.Did anybody experienced a similar problem?Below is the XUI box:<window title="Single" question"=" orient="vertical" modal="false" align="end"> <script type="application/x-javascript" ev:event="WindowLoad"> var dialog = Application.event.target; var xuiDoc = dialog.dialogView.document; </script> <textbox width="200" resize="none"><value id="nameValue"></value></textbox> <combobox id="typeCombo" type="dropdownlist" width="120" resize="none"> <listitem label=

Paste excel option in working with my Arbortext Editor 5.3. Is their and setting require to activate this option?

Hi John et al.We have DITA workshops coming up, including one advertised now on thepublishing process. Check the training website at

For those of you who frequently attend conferences and seminars, I wanted to provide you with a list of upcoming events where Arbortext is either sponsoring or exhibiting. We are constantly adding to this list and I will try to update as needed. Keep in mind we have Arbortext representation at many other conferences via speaking slots and conference attendance so, for your sanity and mine I have limited the list below to official sponsorship and exhibition. Come visit us! We would love to chat with you about the exciting things with Arbortext!2011 Air Force Worldwide Technical Data WorkshopMarch 14-18, Destin, FLWebsiteParticipation: Sponsor, ExhibitorCMS/DITA North America ConferenceApril 4-6, Baltimore, MDWebsite Participation: Exhibitor, Session SpeakerPushpinder Toor, Product Manager with PTC, who is responsible for the DITA interface and CMS support within Arbortext Editor, will be presenting the session "Schematrons: When DTD validation isn't enough"Field Service 2011April 26-29,

Available for immediate downloading from PTC's support site is theArbortext 5.3 M220 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=123075> . If you have any questionsabout the release schedule, please reference the PTC Product Calendarat:

Hi All--In case you haven¹t received the previous notices, we will have an onlinemeeting of the PTC Users Arbortext Technical Committee. It¹s open to allofficial members of the Technical Committee; unfortunately, not to everyoneelse. The meeting will be on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb 15 and 16, from 8 amto 12 pm pacific time.The call-in numbers and web address should be available soon from the teamat Arbortext.If you¹d like to attend, you must join the TC first. Go to the PTC Userswebsite and select the TC tab. You¹ll find the Arbortext TC first on thelist.The presentations will feature new developments at Arbortext and somepresentations by users.If you are a member of the TC and did not receive the posts I¹ve beensending out, please be certain that the TC is on your ³white list.²Invitations could be going to Spam filters. Check for tc-arbortext ....Best regards,JoAnn HackosChair, Arbortext TC

Hello,I am copying a scanned in image (TIFF). This image is:Bit Depth = 24Hor Res = 100Vert Res = 100Width = 1653Height = 1169It is not sharp enough to get good detail anyone know of a way in isodraw to access any settings?Thank youAlan

Greetings folks, I am suddenly getting a rather 'weird' occurrence when trying to open files from an NAS (Network Access Server). I have the drive mapped to a specific drive letter and I can see the drive and file contents with the 'file open' dialog. Now here is where the problem arises. For some reason or another, When I click to open a file (any file) I get an error saying it cannot find the file. The path shown is the network path, not the mapped drive letter path (e.g., \\server-name\volume-on-NAS\folder-name\file.xml versus f:\folder-name\file.xml).I have tried entering the path using the drive letter and folder (e.g., f:\folder-name\file.xml). To no avail (okay, fifth time is a charm, it finally opened). This is occurring on the two computers that I have Epic installed on (laptop with Windoze 7 Home Premium and desktop with Vista 64 Ultimate). With the Vista machine I thought (explaining this in a bit) that typing the drive and path was the answer and once there, it started work

Hi,I have been using Arbortext Editor (5.4) on 2 different machines. One has the CMM Utilities menu the other doesn't. Can anyone shed light on this? Is there a download I need.Many thanks.

Hi Kathy- From the annotated version of the XSL support document in the ArbortextHelp Center: 6.6.6 fo:instream-foreign-objectArbortext software does not support this extended-level formattingobject. Sorry. You might have better luck if you save the SVG as an externalfile and reference it as an external graphic. --Clay

Hello everyone, I searched the forums for this, but couldn't find anything that answered it.I'm wondering if there is a way to use a relative path when inserting a file reference? We're using a constant folder structure that ideally can be zipped up an transported between machines. The problem is when we put on other clients, the links to the references are breaking depending on where the folders are being saved. If I use a text editor and replace the paths with relative paths, Editor pulls them in just fine. However, this is counterproductive to be replacing file paths.Does anyone know how to use relative paths when using Insert->File Reference?We're using Editor 5.4 M080. Any help is much appreciated!

Never mind. I found it in preferences. There is an option to "Remove Arbortext PIs on save".

We've had this discussion in this group before about how pretty much nothing S1000D is free even if it is a government spec.The question for today: is there a simple, free way to create a sample, proof-of-concept book that will run in a browser - preferably over the internet?The files themselves are still XML In Arbortext - that hasn't changed. We've worked with the Trilogi people - pretty, but NOT simple...and the proof of concept is neither cheap nor fast. We should have Eagle installed sooner or later - we've had the license for a couple of years from what I hear. But getting that dang first sample manual up on a screen...!!!Thanks,John T. Jarrett CDTSenior Tech Writer, Integrated Logistics Support, Land & Armaments/Global Tactical SystemsT 832.673.2147 | M 832.363.7234 | F 832.673.2376 | x1147 | -<">mailto:->BAE Systems, 5000 I-10 West, Sealy, Texas USA 77474www.baesystems.com

Hello Adepters,I'm trying to convert an arbitrary string of markup into a DocumentFragment. The only method I know of to do that is insertParsedString(), with is a method on Range objects.Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out how to attach a range to a fragment and make it work right. I've tried a few variations on the following theme:var d = Application.activeDocument;var f = d.createDocumentFragment();var r = f.getOwnerDocument().createRange();r.selectNodeContents(f);r.insertParsedString("test");Doing that, I get a "paste would make in the pasted region out of context." I've also tried using the setStart() and setEnd() methods on range to no avail.Does anyone have any advice?Thanks,James

Hi,This may be a familiar topic as I have raised it a couple of times. The mostrecent was in August, I think, as I was trying to include profilingattributes and values in a FOSI's semantic table. Thanks to an off-listsuggestion from Brandon and an on-list one from Clay, I have managed to makethis work if composition is conducted locally. I have not been able to do iton Publishing Engine yet. I'm hoping someone can stand on my shoulders andsee over the top.To do this local by way of Print Composed you need three components(presented in reverse order, processing-wise):1) Your FOSI or, presumably, Styler code. Here is my FOSI attribute test:<att><fillval attname="yourpackage::getprof" attloc="system-func"<br"/>fillcat="savetext" fillchar="conrule"><charsubset><savetext textid="gotprof.txt"><usetext source="\asdf" \,gotprof.txt,!<newline="/>!"placemnt="before"></usetext></charsubset></att>Which references:2) Your system-func c

We get a lot of questions about whether you can use Arbortext with the Open Toolkit.  The answer is, "Yes, of course," but any further details are difficult unless you know what the questioner means by that: "Arbortext" is a portfolio of products that includes an editor, multiple publishing engines (for both typical and magazine-quality publishing), a content management system, a styling tool (so non-programmers can create stylesheets), a DTD/configuration tool, a dynamic link manager, and an illustration tool. Which part of Arbortext do you want to use with the DITA OT?For example, if you want index processing, you've got to swap out FOP. There's one place you can use Arbortext. You can use Arbortext editor as your DITA editor, that's another place. Want to create multi-channel stylesheets without having to learn XSL and XSL-FO, well, that's a third place. Want to kick off the DITA OT from inside the CMS? That's four.Our shop coach  Mark Giffin, Mark Giffin Consulting, is go

Hi All!If you¹re a member of the PTC Users Arbortext Technical Committee, youshould have received an Outlook announcement from me. We have planned twomorning sessions, Feb 15 and 16, through a web meeting.Here is the agenda:AGENDA1) Arbortext Business Unit Update ­ covers how PTC thinks of Arbortextfrom the business standpoint (30 mins)2) Arbortext Roadmap: Process and Product a. Service Information Solution (SIS) Overview (45 mins) b. Demo ­ SIS (30 mins) c. Demo ­ Galaxy (Technical Illustration tool) (30 mins)3) Upcoming releases: What¹s new (30 mins)4) Futures: (30 mins) a. Review / Preview5) DITA 1.2 (30 mins)6) Customer topics/Presentations (TBD) 2-3 at 30 mins eachYou must be an official member of the Arbortext TC to attend. If you are,please be certain to send me an Outlook confirmation. If you are not, Iinvite you to become a member through the PTC Users website. Find the TC taband click on Arbortext TC to join. You must use an official corporate emailaddress and complete the f

Hi, So, I was able to modify the sample script (e3script.bat, e3samples.jar, e3client.jar) to publish to the PE Server using the default stylesheet, but when I try and use our custom FOSI, the server returns the 500 error. I've tried to use all sorts of paths--to no avail Thanks! Alex ============================================================== Here's my text file with the parameters that the e3script.bat file reads: # Setup our policies (see the javadoc for more information).setpolicy DELETE_PARTIAL_FILES_POLICY falsesetpolicy LOG_THREAD_PREFIX_POLICY truesetpolicy LOG_TIME_DATE_PREFIX_POLICY truee3 <u>http://Config8518VM0:8080/e3/servlet/e3</u>basedir .java com.arbortext.e3.E3AppTest convert PDF_FORMATconvert_set FOSI_PARAMETER Wide_D6_English.fosconvert_set INPUT_FORMAT_PARAMETER XML_FORMATconvert_set OUTPUT_FORMAT_PARAMETER PDF_FORMATpost <u>\\Plefilesvr01\techpubs\DropOff\AlexSato\temp\build-test\src\deployment_guide.xml</u> <u>\\Plefilesvr01\techpu