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Hi,I am struggling to perform what would appear to be a simple operation. I have scoured the 'Macro Language Reference' without any success!I am wanting to search the current activeDoc and remove all the text elements that contain the letter 'x'.All the examlpes I can find involve generating something from new and assigning to a variable:MACRO globalsTest gText = "Hi, I'm a global." MESSAGE gTextEND MACROIn this case I dont know to make anything from new - I want to access pre-existing elements put them into a variable and modify/delete them as needed - I am getting really frustrated at not being able to find this info - maybe I have been looking at too much code recently and I am just not seeing it!Can anyone help?Thanks in advanceAlanMessage was edited by: Alan Porter

Hi folks- I'm working with tables, and I'm trying to set the height of a row to avery small value (in essence to hide the row). This is with the standardCALS table model. I've set the tableminimumrowheight and tableminimumemptyrowheightoptions to small values, and with the usual PI, I can get the desired result in PDF output. But I'd like to see the same result in the Editor window as well. Isthis possible? All content of the row in question is suppressed, but thetable editor seems to have its own idea of minimum row height separatefrom the tableminimumrowheight and tableminimumemptyrowheight optionsthat the print engine uses. When I try to drag the row separator toshrink the row, it pops back to some default height of about a line. IfI set the pseudo-attribute on the PI manually, the value sticks butdoesn't seem to affect the Editor view. (If I set it to a *large* value,I do see that reflected in the Editor view. But it won't let me go belowa certain size.) Has anyone run into this be

I have a customer who wants a TOC created using content from seperate SGML files.It is possible to generate one large SGML file manually from each of the individual files within a chapter element and easily create the TOC this way but the customer wishes to keep all the filesseperate.Other than writing loads of ACL to open each of these files in turn, search for the section, extract it, and copy into current document, and then extract the necessary content, Is there a quick and easy alternative method for doing this ?Regards,

Any Styler gurus out there? Why would styler refuse to generate blank pages when page layout is set to double-sided? Even if I do FOSI edits to the page set to add a rectobb structure, it just doesn't output blank pages after odd pages. Any reset?John SillariChief Technologist, Technical Services DivisionDayton T. Brown, Inc.jsillari@dtb.com<">mailto:jsillari@dtb.com>dtbinfopros.com631 742 3477 (mobile)650 735 5864 (direct)Pacific (GMT -08:00)

I've come across a strange quirk in how Arbortext Editor 5.3 deals withtables in a particular situation. I am using namespaced CALS table mark-up in my schema with which(non-technical) users are creating tables using Arbortext's WYSIWYGtool. It appears that these users are adding additional rows to theirtables by highlighting a previous row and copying and pasting this rowat the end of the table just before the closing </table> element. WhileI appreciate this isn't the correct way of adding table rows (which Ihave told my users) it has illustrated a particular issue. The first thing I noticed was that all the table mark-up was repeatedfrom <tgroup> onwards, although as valid mark-up it isn't necessarily abig issue. However, I also noticed that all namespace prefixes from theinserted row mark-up had disappeared, as per the following example: <namespace:table> <namespace:tgroup cols="2"> <namespace:colspec colname="col1"/"> <namespace:colspec colname="col

Hello,I am required to make changes to a large number of CGM files. Below I will list whats need to be done and the areas I am stuck on. I am to do the following:Tasks-Remove unwanted elements-Insert Text Input #1 at certain location (Data from Spreadsheet)-Insert Text Input #2 + Input #3 at certain location (Input #2 from spreadsheet and is CGM filename - Input #3 is Data is from spreadsheet)Current ProgressThe removal of unwanted elements I have just completed using the following (Unfortunately the elements to be removed are on the same layer as the wanted elements so i cannot simply delete a layer - hence the long workaround) :Macro CustomSelectionSELECT RECTANGLE 0 0 650 8.2 with_partial add directSELECT RECTANGLE 0 0 7.6 600 with_partial add directSELECT RECTANGLE 837.2 0 843 600 with_partial add directSELECT RECTANGLE 0 591.7 842.6 600 with_partial add directSELECT RECTANGLE 632.6 0 842.6 83.2 with_partial add directDELETE SELECTIONEnd MacroThe next step is to add in 2 text eleme

I set an id on tabpanel and then try to;dlgitem_set_focus($win, "mytabpanelid");dlgitem_display($win, "mytabpanelid");dlgitem_set($win, "mytabpanelid","ACTIVE",1);dlgitem_set($win, "mytabpanelid","VISIBLE",1);But no joy. The functions all return 1 but the first tabpanel in the seriesis actually "selected" or displayed or "on top" if you know what I mean NOTthe one I'm attempting to call via its id.-- Paul Nagai

As part of a macro, I'm trying to work out the approximate perimiter of a selected ellipse.I'm falling down right at the start because I don't understand how to extract the information needed to do the working out.In my macro, the user selects an ellipse. I then want to extract various bits of information from the ellipseproperties in order to work out the approximate perimiter.Below is an extract of what I've done so far - it is not correct though, as it doesn't work!macro cylinder_properties define ellipse_pt as element define start_angle as string define me as MouseEvent me = Wait MouseClick ellipse_pt = me.ptMMGrid Select at pt.x pt.y start_angle = ellipse_pt.ellipse.segments[1].startAngle #TO TEST IT I JUST WANTED TO DISPLAY ON SCREEN THE VALUE IT'S FOUND FOR start_angle BUT IT GIVES A SYNTAX ERROR message 'ellipse segment start angle is: ' + start_angleend macroI've not figured out yet how you extract data using the language, so can anyone help me?I find that the lack of any ki

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Anyone know if this is configurable? Anyone do it as a customization?I found and understand the set spellsentencecapitalization option, but Iwant "fixsentencecapitalization" or something similar.-- Paul Nagai

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I have a two-column layout in which I have mulitple categories of content. Each category is given a title using xsl:text. When the content of a given category flows over to the 2nd column, I want the category title to print above the content that has flowed over.Thanks.

Has anyone has any success using the float-scope attribute on the fo:float element?I'm currently working on setting up Table Title Continued lines and within the Table element. I need the float-scope to be set for the table element but am not having any luck getting it to work. All other attributes work as expected. I have the float-scope set to read the id of the table element and when I do a transform it is producing the correct id but when I print preview in arbortext it repeats the Title Continued line on every table throughout the entire section. Like the scope is set for the chapter element and not the table element.Here is my code:<xsl:template match="imm:table/imm:title"><fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="space text" text-align="center" start-indent="0pt"><xsl:value-of select="."/>fo:block><fo:float atixslfoext:float-class-reference="tabtitle" atixslfoext:float-scope="{parent::imm:table/@id}"><fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="space text" text-align=

Hi, all...Just temporarily, we'd like to be able to show the props attribute in the Modify Attributes dialog box (CTRL-D). We realize that this is used for specialization only, but we've created a migration that uses it directly for now.I edited the file C:\Program Files\PTC\Arbortext Editor\application\com.arbortext.dita\dcfmodules\dita-base-module.dcfand set<attributeoption attribute="props" <b=">dialogHidden="no" screenHidden="no"/>However, after restarting Arbortext, the props attribute still does not appear in the Modify Attributes dialog box.Anybody know why? Arbortext version 5.4 M040ThanksSteve

Hello Everyone,We are getting an error message that states "Error 50 Cannot start Server" has anyone seen this in relation to Isoview? Do you know what it means? Or what the solution is?Sindy YoungAWACS Tools and Technology Team,(253) 657-6964Kent, WA 98032

Adepters:Starting Monday, several of our users are reporting a problem wherein Arbortext Editor won't start. A Windows message pops up that "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem." At this point the user has to do a repair install.These users are probably all XP users and we're all on AE 5.4 patch M050. The culprit seems to be an automatic Windows update, although I can't prove. Just wondering if anyone else on the list has had this problem?Dave HintzSiemens

Hi everybody!We are working on Cadprocess and wonderig how to directly import the part numbers from the 3D files and extract them into a text/excel file.We saw it in a short demo but we couldn't replay it.Anybody can help us?Thanks for all comments!SalutiMassimo

Does anyone have any experience using the programming interface for IsoDraw? I'm curious what the possibilities are and whether there is anything more common that it could be compared to. Any input would be appreciated.

We're still playing (sic) with the 40051-2A (style sheets for the -1A electronic TMs are a later task) style sheets. What we're having a problem with is getting a graphic to rotate if it is too wide to fit in portrait mode. We're not trying to rotate the page set, just the graphic. One potential problem we've had is that the 40051 DTD dropped the 'rotation' attribute from <graphic> in late 2003. We've reinstated it for testing but it still not recognized by the FO. Anyone who isn't still overly stuffed from Thanksgiving have any words of wisdom? ThanksLynn

Hi AllDoes any one know if Epic V5.1 and 5.3 is compatible with Windoze 7.John T. Groves W R Systems, LTD. 2500 Almeda Ave Suite 214 Norfolk, VA 23513-2403 Ph. 757.858.6000 ext 442 email: jgroves@wrsystems.comBut a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never berestored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.<john adams=" 1775=">

Has anyone had this problem? Whenever I double-click on a text element to edit it, the text highlights as it should, but when I type in new text, the highlight disappears and the new text is added to the existing text instead of replacing it. I have to click and drag to re-highlight the already highlighted text (which is not an exact science - if you miss the begining of the text by a micron, it jumps out of that text element and attempts to create a new one) in order to replace the existing text. This is fairly new behavior that seems to have started spontaneously.

Recently, Dave Lorenzoni wrote a post about the cost of Arbortext. In it he says, "There’s a lot of confusion, bad information, old information about Arbortext floating around out there."Over the last year, we've come to that same realization from a completely different perspective. We see a lot of confusion out there about what Arbortext is. When you say Arbortext to some people, they think you're talking about "Arbortext Editor"; to others, "Arbortext IsoDraw"; to still others, "Arbortext Content Manager." It's easy to see how this happens. Everyone has their own niche and there are simply too many other things to think about. (I confess to thinking of Creo the same way.) But, like Creo, Arbortext is a big-picture solution that includes all the pieces required for creation, management, and  publishing of enterprise content.As a result we decided to set up a new series on the Single-Sourcing blog: Frequently Asked Questions about Arbortext. Questions have been grouped into categ

HelloI try to use this hot key to popup a line in front another without success (on azerty keyboard , isodraw 7)Anyone know why this command doesn t work ?Thanks in advance.

Can anyone tell me if the "peaxis2" application (supporting the "PEWebService") deployed as part of Arbortext PE Server (5.4) is used internally by the PE server? We're also using a Windchill adapter for storing content, employing Visualization Services CADworkers. I basically want to know if it's "safe" to disable this ("peaxis2") application that appears to have been enabled "out of the box", given that we're not employing custom SOAP apps to interact with PE.The larger goal is to secure the PE Server in a corporate environment; I'd rather "turn off" any unused entry points rather than securing them.Looking into this task, it appears there are several applications / services we could remove or disable:The Tomcat applications:managerhost-managerdocsexamplesI think I can do that by cleaning out the "webapps" directory and removing the corresponding app .xml files in "conf/Catalina/localhost".PE apparently also deploys an instance of "axis2" software (as a WAR file from within the "e3"

Is there a way to tell, within a macro, which pens are from the preference file and which are from the file itself?More detail:We import files from Illustrator and come across such wonder pens such as "0.09-1". I would like to cycle through these, but skip the pens that are defined by the preference file. I would like, if at all possible, not to have to do checks to make sure that I'm not cycling through normal pens. Any ideas?