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HiCurrently we are working on some projects and have done almost 50 macros for our requirements. We have about 22 systems that have been installed with Isodraw 7. The problem is I have a set of icon (.ico) files, obviously 50 for the 50 macros. I have to link all these icons to the respective macros which has been divided into their respective applications. For example, macros related to mechanical engineering form a group and that of electrical form another group. The total number of groups is about 6 and all have been set as toolbars from the Window\Toolbars... menu. Now, what I want is, is there any command line reference guide where I can create a batch file to do all this so that I dont have to do this work for all the 22 systems. You know how difficult it would be to do it manually, and there are chances of mixing up with the macros and the icons. Please help on this whether i could get a command line reference guide so that i can create the above said batch files and just run i

I'm getting some inconsistent results with boxing and I'm wondering ifanyone can shed some light. This relates to my previous question in termsof markup and psuedo elements in use, but is more specific to thisfeature.1) Is there anyway to control the width of a box?seems like short text gets a short box, but I would like to have aconsistent width that spans the column. I also have a situation where Ihave a long title and it doesn't seem to wrap this title. Might be relatedto the align group as well.As I mentioned in the other post, the straight <title> elements span thewhole width, but places where I have the psuedo elements I'm gettingsmaller boxed areas.2) Filled boxes seem to take the offset values but outlined boxes don't.I have set the top/bottom/right/left offsets to 4pts. In a filled box thisdoes what is expected, but in an outlined box it has no affect. Theoutline hugs the content no matter what I set.I'm tempted to try an use a graphic and just over print it with thetitl

Hello,Is there a way to type the german low quotation mark in ArborText. I have my language set to german by setlanguage=german but I cannot able to type the low quote mark. Do I need to use character entities for this?Karthik

I am using linenum command in PE to add line number information into an XML file. The following is what I am doing:1. add_hook for formatcontinuehook and formatcompletehook.2. Call e3::convert to start a conversion to convert XML to PDF3. formatcontinuehook is called durring the conversion. I made a copy of the doc and save it into a file (1). And return 0.4. formatcompletehook is called when format complete. a) I set the saved file (1) as current document and do a layout::apply("layout::linenum()"); or compose_lnr(); to add line number information into this file. b). I do some post process to extract information I need and save to another file (2).I got pubtex.exe crash error in some of my files when run through this program. There is no extra error information for me to know what the problem is and it just crashed. I think the error is happened in step 4.a) described above.Does any one has any experience on this?Normally, what the problem cause pubtex crash?ThanksJingjun

Hello Adepters,I am using linenum command in PE to add line number information into an XML file. The following is what I am doing:1. add_hook for formatcontinuehook and formatcompletehook.2. Call e3::convert to start a conversion to convert XML to PDF3. formatcontinuehook is called durring the conversion. I made a copy of the doc and save it into a file (1). And return 0.4. formatcompletehook is called when format complete. a) I set the saved file (1) as current document and do a layout::apply("layout::linenum()"); or compose_lnr(); to add line number information into this file. b). I do some post process to extract information I need and save to another file (2).I got pubtex.exe crash error in some of my files. There is no extra error information for me to know what the problem is and it just crashed. I think the error is happened in step 4.a) described above.Does any one has any experience on this?Normally, what the problem cause pubtex crash? ThanksJingjun

Or is there a config switch somewhere I don't know about (can't find inhelp)?-- Paul Nagai

In general I have the floats working on my figures but there are a coupleodd things I am puzzled over. I have my float with the following settings:<floatloc floatid="figfloat" floattyp="once" maxdepth="6in"<br"/>minspace="13pt" nomspace="13pt" maxspace="13pt"><rectopg bind="lleft" chgmkplc="pright" xvjstretch="max"<br"/>topfloat="table-title.top figfloat" ><float flidref="figfloat" width="page" scope="chapter" pagetype="afterref">I have a situation where the figure is less than a page height but thereis no more content on the page for one reason or another. In one case thefigure is more or less centered on the page - it takes maybe 3/4 of thespace. In another situation the figure is place at the bottom of the page.In this last case the figure only occupies less than 1/4.In the last case I'm playing with the sizing attributes on the graphic tagas it was setting too large. I've now shrunk it to a very small size andit is placed at the botom of thee p

I need a macro event to trigger the "OK" from the print dialogue box. I wrote the following macro to print the viewports in a drawing, but I have to manually select the "OK" button each time the macro goes to print the active viewport. A bit of a pain since I have between 8-15 viewports per drawing when I print the .cgm drawings I produce. Attached is the code.

HiI am currently trying to install the PTC license daemons on a Linux Red-hat 5.5 64 bit serverThe daemons all seem to relate to solaris or windowsThere is a license server tool for linux - but NO DAEMONSwhen we contact support we get responses that the daemons for PRO/E wildfire are not supported on linuxHas anyone else come across the same scenaioI really need to just get the correct ptc_d to work on a 64 bit linux client (intel) so i can then use my legit license keysso i can run a license server for PTC Arbortext IsoDraw 7.1 foundation and IsoDraw CADProcessHELP!!

I'm currently working on a stylesheet for a manual.In this case I must see to it so that the inside of the cover pages dont contain any information at all (the cover will be printed 4+0).This is easy for page 2 since you can define "Start new: Odd page" for the following page set which then will begin on page 3 and leave page 2 empty. But i dont know how to do this with the second to last page. My thought was to create a xpath-expression that based on if the page count was odd or even would add one or two empty pages before the last page.Is there a way to calculate and use page count in xpath-exressions?Is there some other way to solve this?

I'm trying to format my figures such that they float to the next page asneeded. I have two sets of markup for figures, one for a single graphicand then another with multiple sheets.SINGLE<figure><title>this is the title</title><graphic filreref="image.cgm"/"></figure>MUTLI-SHEET<figure><title>this is the title</title><subfig><graphic filreref="image2.cgm"/"></subfig><subfig><graphic filreref="image3.cgm"/"></subfig></figure>I created a floatloc:<floatloc floatid="figfloat" floattyp="once" minspace="13pt"<br"/>nomspace="13pt" maxspace="13pt">I have set this as both a bot and top float on the page descriptions withvarying results.<rectopg bind="lleft" chgmkplc="pright" xvjstretch="max"<br"/>topfloat="table-title.top" botfloat="figfloat" ><rectopg bind="lleft" chgmkplc="pright" xvjstretch="max"<br"/>topfloat="table-title.top figfloat" >And I use the flo

I received a Virus alert while extracting from the zip file forMicrosoft Windows 5.4 M070. The alert was on the file pstill.exe inData2.cab. I did open an issue with PTC (7907403). I haven't heard muchfrom PTC yet. I downloaded the zip file just this morning. Ray Anderson

Hello all,I have a turkish document and so far I could able to view the document correctly in the editor view. However I could not use change case feature very effiectively for example in turkish a lower case "i" when changed to uppercase "i" should be like "I" with a dot above it. How do I get this in ArborText. The Language option in preferences does not have turkish.Karthik

Hello,I need to use "boxing" for some blocks in XSL-FO and enable the deepcontentsplitting functionality of E3 on these boxes.It is OK but there are some change bars with the boxing and deep splitting pages. I noticed "Deep splitting pages with change bars is not supported" in Arbortext Help.Does anybody have any solutions to circumvent this limitation?Thanks a lot!Billy

I don't know if everyone got the email (not everyone at S3I did), but theCFP is out for the conference next year.The deadline for submission is November 22!Here's the announcement from PTC:Click here if you have trouble viewing thisemail<">http://live.planetptc.com/portals/0/emails/static/presentationcall10.5.html>Submit Your Proposal Online for PlanetPTC Livein Las Vegas Starting October 15, 2010Driven by one simple mission – helping PTC customers be more effective– *PlanetPTCLive in Las Vegas on June 12-15, 2011* will preserve the best aspects of theformer PTC/USER World Event and complement the experience with best-in-classeducation, networking and access that is unmatched at any other event in ourindustry.PlanetPTC Live in LasVegas<will">http://www.ptc.com/read?u=1-3X1F8-197&c=1-KP5UWT&o=1-LE2XJN&w=1655879&t=http%3A%2F%2Flive.planetptc.com%2FLasVegasUSA%2Ftabid%2F61%2FDefault.aspx>willsoon be recruiting PTC product users and PLM experts to share th

I have a page in which the title of the section/chapter spans the twocolumns of text that make oup the text. At least that is what I want. Thepage composes with 2 columns of text and the heading wrapped in the firstcolumn. I wen in and checked the CALS sample and saw that they placed aspan of 2 on their title elements, so I tried that. That causes the titleto span the 2 columns but now the page content is just set as a singlecolumn. I checked the CALS sample para0 tag to see if it reset the columnvalue it did; to 0.I did the same thing to the first element after my title. No change. Titlespans the two columns and the body text is in a single column.What did I miss?..dan

Hi,I am considering deploying some code that will save a document within thesave callback during the first pass and return a do not proceed code so therest of the callback is not executed but also (and this is the key) avoidingthe actual save.Huh? Yeah, me too.My understanding of the save and save callback program flow is this:1) A save is initiated.2) The function assigned to the save callback is called with op=1. If thefunction returns -1, the save is aborted. Otherwise, the flow proceeds tostep 3.3) The function assigned to the save callback is called again. This is wherecode to be executed prior to the save is placed.4) Once the function is complete and returns, Editor performs a save.Am I missing anything important? Is my understanding correct?My plan is to perform the save during step 2 above ... the first call to thefunction assigned to the save callback and abort further processing.What do I need to consider in order to fully evaluate the risk of deployingthis strategy relative

I have a requirement to create a [Continued] mark at the bottom of a pagewhen a procedure breaks across pages. I've got no idea on how to make thishappen with a FOSI, any ideas?The printed sample I have looks like the marking may be placed in thefooter so it is always in a consistent location at the bottom of the pagerather than floating to the point where the text breaks. Not sure if thisis a hard requirement or if either method is harder/easier to accomplish...dan

The last two weeks have been really busy, but I wanted to take this opportunity to stress that it's time for all the Arbortext users out there to submit a proposal for presentation at the annual user conference, PlanetPTC Live, in 2010.Like others who have made this solicitation, it's not only altruism that we ask you to submit a proposal and tell us about what you're doing: it makes the conference better for us as well.Submissions open on 10/15 and are due by 11/22.Hope to see you in Las Vegas.Related posts:New to Arbortext Editor? Try the tutorials...PlanetPTC Call for Presentations is out! Ever wonder about what your tag cloud really is?  Wordle does..Releases: Arbortext 5.4 M070 and APP V10 M070  As always, you can keep up with announcments about the latest releases here.Review from Lavacon 2010 and Tweet RoundupArticle: Join the conversation! Why use a product like Arbortext?

Is PTC going to fix the problem IsoDraw has opening .xpr and .xas files? Anyone have issues with this? Open .asm file that has .xpr files in it and all those files are missing or replaced with the "generic" representation of the .xpr file.

I have recently created some time saver macros for speeding up the process of creating illustrations to the S1000D standard. I have a hotspotter, a file checker (for things such things as typefaces, elements within boundaries, empty Background layer etc.) and they work extremely well. But, I have created one that replaces the illustration id reference in the bottom-right corner of the illustration template area, it takes the input as the current file name without the extension as the input and at present it works by selecting the macro from the dropdown menu with the file open.I would like to know if there is a way to trigger this macro when using the normal 'save' or 'save as' in Isodraw, or somehow capture the 'on change' event when the file is renamed as the trigger.Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Available for immediate downloading from PTC's support site is theArbortext 5.4 M070 release. This maintenance release includes bug fixes only. If you want to knowall the details about this release, please check out the release notes<">http://www.ptc.com/view?im_dbkey=118099> . If you have any questionsabout the release schedule, please reference the PTC Product Calendarat: <">http://www.ptc.com/company/tl/index.htm>

I've got a toolbar with one button defined like this:<toolbar id="mytoolbar" name="myname" x="2000" y="0">in ...custom/dialogs/mytoolbar.xmlWhen the custom directory is parsed and files executed on the open of an XMLinstance for that doctype, my button is displaying "aligned right" on thevery top row of the toolbar area. I want the toolbar to redisplay "alignedright' if/when an author resizes or maximizes the Editor window.Possible? How? I can't seem to find a command that will relocate thattoolbar, let alone starting to look for the hooks/callbacks.dlgitem_hide/_show simply make it disappear and reappear, but in-place.I must be thinking wrong ...-- Paul Nagai

I need to create a xpath-expression in Styler that finds at the latest section element with a specific value on it´s type attribute. The section element can be nestled so I cant predict where the type attribute was set the last time. I need to do this so that I know what derived section type I have.Example of context:section/section@type='xx'/sectionsection/section/section/section@type='xx'section@type='xy'/section@type='xx'/section/sectionIn all the above I need to know the latest section where type was set.My thought was to create the following condition (and repeat it for other type values):parent::section[@type='xx']Unfortunatly it doesn´t seem to do the trick and I have spoken to others working with Styler that says it is hard to create working reverse expressions in Styler.Has anyone had any experience of this or perhaps even a solution?Greatful for all answers!

I've got my basic numbered list working minus the ability to align thenumbers properly. Currently I'm getting: 8. text here 9. text here 10. text hereWould really like 8. text here 9. text here 10. text hereI've got this setup on a usetext "itemct,\.\,@2pi"Also someone recently mentioned reading the "Arbortext® FOSI ReferenceArbortext Editor 5.4 F000 June 2009", I just found this document via theknowledge base when I logged the call on the table heading centeringissue. Looks like this was added to the doc sutie after 5.2 (which I'mcurrently using). Lots of good information here. Looks like itincorporated the "Fosi development techniques" document that I got at oneof the first user group meetings.