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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?

I would like to find a way to represent a as something visible. Itcould be the background colored, glyph, or something else. I want it to be avisible only in the Editor.d

Hi,Arbortext is stripping the / from empty elements when I load them, e.g.<header:metadata-item name="create-date" value="20100920"/"> becomes<header:metadata-item name="create-date" value="20100920">so the document isn't even well formed any more. However, Arbortext still gives it a clean bill of health (no completeness errors). Can someone please point me at the setting in Prefs that fixes this - none of my colleagues is having this issue.Thanks.

Hi All, I am developing XUI type window using Arbortext.In this type of window, one combo box is one of the key item. My requirement is "apart from dropdown list, combo box should be editable".So, I changed the type attribute to "dropdown". Now it is editable, but i am unable to get the edited value.I found no such function in ACL to get that value. Is there any workaround or solution for this.Can any one help me? Thanks,Subbu

Hello all,We have a testingmemberswho uses SharePoint to store some test XML files. Our default XML editor is ArborText and it is configured to open any XML file (default application). However when I checkout a file from SharePoint it does not open the XML file for editing. Also when ArborText is closed and if I checkout the file, then ArborText application is opened but it does not open the file. I am getting a message that the file does not exist.Is there a way to make ArborText to edit files from SharePoint? If not then I might have to move XML files to a directory of some network location. Karthik

I'm reviewing material for presentation at planetPTC 2011, and I'm looking for input on which of the following to include. What else would you suggest?- Slash formatting time by 50% or more with FOSI and Arbortext Editor's formatting pass reduction feature- Cool stuff you can do with FOSI Regions- Fancy FOSI Footwork: How to access the content of suppressed child elements- How to code your FOSIs to optimize generated text updates in the Edit window- "Lights-out" formatting with Arbortext Editor and FOSI- Tips and Tricks: * Learn the 3 things that can slow FOSI formatting and how you can avoid them * Learn 5 ways to make your FOSIs easier to maintain * Learn 7 ways to work around a DTD to achieve the desired formattingThanks!Suzanne Napoleonwww. FOSIexpert.com"WYSIWYG is last-century technology!"

What file are the preferences stored in?I have a writer that trashed his custom settings so much I can't even open his preferences. Be easier if I could just cut and paste mine and start all over.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

Suppose my xml document is at c:\temp\xmlIf I insert a graphic which is stored at the same level of my XML document, the result is :<inlinegraphic fileref="graphic6.png"/>If the graphic is in an image directory at the same level, it becomes :<inlinegraphic fileref="images/graphic6.png"/>Now, if I want to reference an image that is one level down in my tree structure (temp/shared), A/E switch to absolute path and the result is ;<inlinegraphic fileref="c:\temp\shared\graphic6.png"/>So my question : is is possible to hava a relative path (../shared/graphic6.png) instead of an absolute.Any idea is welcome, Pierat

Arbortext IsoDraw FoundationFilenameFilename extensionOpenPlaceExportIsoDrawiso-IsoDraw (packaged)isoz-EPSepsCGMcgm, cgzcgmAdobe IlustratoraiIGESigsDWG (AutoCAD)dwgDXFdxfHPGLhplSVGsvg, svgzTIFFtifJPEGjpgPNGpngBitmapbmpPCXpcxCALS Rastercc4WMFemfTexttxt-XCFxml-Object listtxt--PDFpdf--Interleafdoc--FrameMakermif--Arbortext IsoDraw CADprocessFilenameFilename extensionOpenPlaceExportIsoDrawiso-IsoDraw (packaged)isoz-EPSepsCGMcgm, cgzcgmAdobe IlustratoraiIGESigsCreo Elements/Pro (formerly Pro/ENGINEER)prt, asm, xpr, xas-Creo Elements/View (formerly ProductView)ol, ed, pvs, edz, pvz-VDAvda-STEPstp, step-ACISsat-Parasolidxmt, x-t, x_b-DWG (AutoCAD)dwgDXFdxfVRMLwrl-Wavefrontobj-HPGLhplSVGsvg, svgzTIFFtifJPEGjpgPNGpngBitmapbmpPCXpcxCALS Rastercc4WMFemfTexttxt-XCFxml-Object listtxt--PDFpdf--Interleafdoc--FrameMakermif--

We are looking for in-depth customer case studies and related presentations that demonstrate the successful application of PTC solutions in real-world scenarios. All speakers will receive complimentary registration.This is a great opportunity. All you have to do is submit a proposal. Plus, it's Vegas! What more incentive do you need?Get some more details-Dan

Multiple, successive deletes are awkward with both the mouse and the delete key on the right side of the keyboard (sometimes not practical to select multiple times for one delete) - is it possible to designate a delete key on the left side of the keyboard?

How can I include the 'character fill' command in a macro?

Hope someone here can help.Just had a file through a couple of errors, because the @key values were "invalid". Turns out, they were too long. What?!?Anything over 72 characters causes the error. I'm hoping there's a setting we can 'set' to override this. That seems ridiculously short, when XML standards place no limit on an attribute's size. And I didn't find anything in searching the help(less) files. But maybe I just didn't use the right search terms.I can certainly explain the 'why' we need the length we do for the values, but the point is, to assure uniqueness of 'key's in our instances, we need the length.And these aren't the longest that I can see occurring.Help?Thanks!Steve ThompsonTAD TechnicalBoeing-IDS Technical Publications+1(316)977-0515MC K83-08The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it, and a lie is a lie even if everyone believes it.NOTICE: This communication may contain proprietary or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, or belie

I have built a Java servlet, running in Tomcat 7 which reads an XML instance from a third party repository and sends a publishing request (PDF) to a PE SErver (v. 5.4). The PDF is streamed back to the client browser. This part is working just fine, what I can't figure out is how to send the graphics which are linked in the instance via an 'image' element with a URL attribute. I have tried writing the graphics to the file-system and re-linking them in teh servlet, but this didn't work. I have opened the resulting XML instance in Arbortext Editor 5.4 and published it successfully with graphics on the PE server. It seems that I'm missing something in passing the graphics or correctly linking them for transmission to the PE server. Has anyone had any success doing this?

We haven't had to change our FOSI in years (aside from slightmodifications) so I'm a bit rusty.I'm hoping someone might be able to answer this quick question beforeI inevitably figure it out.Given two elements:<problem id="p_123"><para>This is sometext</para><some-other-elements-here/></problem>and<problemref linkend="p_123">I would like to have the para text from the ID node shown after theproblemref element in Arbortext.I setup my fosi as follows:<e-i-c gi="problem"><charlist charsubsetref="block"><indent leftind="@12pt" firstln="*"></charlist><att><specval attname="id" attloc="problem" attval="#ANY"><charsubset><savetext textid="xref-formatted.txt"<br"/>conrule="<problem.fmt>,#CONTENT,</problem.fmt>" xrefidtag="problem"></charsubset></att></e-i-c><e-i-c gi="problemref"><charlist inherit="1" charsubsetref="inline"></charlist><att><spec

This forum has been such a help to me implementing MIL-STD 40051C using Arbortext Editor 5.3 and Print Composer, I thought I would share a bug I found. I kept gettting errors with parsing of the v1.7 LOGSA XSL-FO when trying to use Print Composer but only in certain directories. I narrowed it down to my placement of a % sign in the folder name which of course ended up in the full path name when SAX would try to parse, throwing the error. So, if you run into this same problem, just remove the special character(s) from your directory structure and you should be able to generate a print preview.

Hi All,Recently we installed IsoDraw 7.1. I can see some clarity of art difference between this version and the older ones(7.0 Version). When you Zoom very deep the clarity goes to the poor. when the art is fitted into the window also, the clarity is not upto the mark. I have checked with the settings, but no faults can be found in our side. we tried reinstalling also, but it does not works. Is this thing happening in all 7.1 version's? How to avoid these kind of issues.Please help me in this regard,Without clarity i feel bad to work on it.Thanks n advance.Velu

I wanted to look at the document declaration and I remember doing it before by using the edit command. The Arbortext help specifies:edit [-newwindow | -ok] [-readonly] [-xml | -untaggedascii] [-encoding string] [-cc | -nocc] [-stylesheet name] [-catalog dir] [filename | -last | -current]but when I enter "edit -untaggedascii -current" at the command line I get error message [A11316] Unexpected argument: -current[cid:image001.png@01CB7CD8.E68BC190]Can someone tell me what I am missing here?Thanks,-Andy[cid:image002.jpg@01CB7CD8.E68BC190]Andy Esslinger LM Aero Tech Order Data(817) 279-0442 1 Lockheed Blvd. MZ 4285(817) 777-3047 Fort Worth TX 76108

Adepters:We have some documentation that makes heavy use of equations. To date, our users been authoring them in Word and then doing screen caps for our published output (PDF and HTML). So, now they're interested in using an equation editor (MathML) directly and have looked a at least one third-party vendor who has Arbortext Editor and Publisher add-ons. We're using AE 5.4 M070 and are moving to PE 5.4 M070. Oh, and we are not DITA users (have our own custom schema).Just curious if anyone has gone this route and what your recommendations would be?Thanks,Dave HintzSiemens