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I notice there are a lot of unanswered questions here, especially Arbortext-related questions. I'm not really surprised: Seasoned Arbortexters don't look for questions here. Usually, Arbortext folks hang out on the Adepters Mailing List. (For more information about the mailing list, see the Top Arbortext Resources post.) I hate to see questions go unanswered.That's the problem with message boards and mailing lists.Hopefully someone's watching. Hopefully someone gets an answer back to you in time. What if you don't have the tool or skill you need to do the 10 minutes of work you need to do?That's where the Advisory Line ( http://www.single-sourcing.com/advisor ) comes in. Need help with Arbortext? or Arbortext Content Manger? Or Pro/E? Call an Advisor. Get your question answered quickly without starting a big consulting engagement. We've got experienced professionals for the most popular PTC products, including every product in the Arbortext family from Editor to Publisher to Content Ma

Looking through the forums, only one question appears more often than this one. It seems a good time to write this up.If you want to know whether any particular version of Arbortext is supported on any particular version of Windows, check the Software Compatibility Matrix.For example, here's the Arbortext Software Compatibility Matrix for 5.3.http://www.ptc.com/appserver/wcms/standards/fileothumbredirect.jsp?im_dbkey=46355&icg_dbkey=522  (You'll need to log in.)Here's how to find this document and others like it:Go to: http://www.ptc.com/support/arbortext(For now), in the right-hand navigation, there's a link for:  "Reference Documents"When you get to the search page:Set Product to "Arbortext Editor"Set Release to "5.3"   (or whatever version you're looking for)Set Document Type to "Matricies - Software"Set Roles: "All" (or just leave it at the default)Voila!

We are using Arbortext editor 5.3 to author content and storing in documentum, if we place cursor after the last element, on save in epic it is adding processing instruction <?Pub Caret?> after last element, this is causing issue in documentum considering this as element.we want to to remove processing element if exist as a last element, please let me know how to remove.Thanksvittal

I'm a lot of places. It seems that every community wants you to play in their sandbox... it's so backwards. If you're looking for insight, your best bet is to follow me on our corporate blog. I'm one of many posters.Here's the official bio:Before founding Single-Sourcing Solutions, Liz worked in both high-tech and government sectors, developing and delivering technical  design and strategy of authoring and publishing solutions as a  Single-Source/XML Architect/Programmer. For over a decade, she has  architected and implemented the single-sourcing systems for government  and high tech companies. Specializing in practical development and deployment, she is a strong advocate of designing architectures that  directly improve organizational efficiency, productivity, and  interoperability.She presents regularly at industry and vendor conferences and is very  active in the software engineering user communities: SF Bay ACM council  member, SF Bay Arborte

I just got stumped. A user wants to sort a table by column. I have no clueif that is possible. I am using version 5.2. Our data is SGML.d

Available for immediate downloading from PTC's support site is theArbortext 5.4 M060 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=115579> . If you have any questionsabout the release schedule, please reference the PTC Product Calendarat: <">http://www.ptc.com/company/tl/index.htm>

Hi,Has anybody done a check to see if an internal file (i.e. index.app) if it exists? What my problem is that we have a template that always puts in an Index tag even when there aren't index entries. So what I would like to do is check to see if the index.app file has anything in it before I put out the Index header etc. I think it might be some kind of system-func or #FOSI type check, but I haven't come up with anything yet.Thanks,Ellen

Hi,I have created a DLM Quick Start Files page on adepters.org. It includes ahandful of sample files and file fragments that I took from a working DLMimplementation, genericized, tar'ed (since adepters.org doesn't support .zipfiles), and uploaded. There is a readme and some file fragments havecomments inside.Direct link to the adepters.org page here:

Are there any IsoDraw users out there? I see it is labeled an Arbortextproduct (rather than PTC) so I think this is a valid question here 😉Anyway, I'm looking for documentation on command line parameters. I didn'tfind anything in the help file...dan

Easier, but then the rest of us wouldn't learn from it... 😄Steve Thompson+1(316)977-0515

FYI - It's "Brandon", not "Brendon". If you look on one of his posts, his email address should be at the top of the message.And Steve Thompson is right - one of the purposes of this forum is to educate everyone who signs up, including the "lurkers" who almost never post anything.

Is there a command, within ACL, for outputting a character string without the end-of-string 0x00 ascii character ?

Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the EULA, post-installation?Thanks,-jason

Got a question for a friend of mine. She has suddenly lost her print options. They are now grayed out. Looking at her session information, the print composer is installed, but no license has been obtained.I checked this with my session information and I have the same configuration. The only difference being my print functions are still showing as available. She told me she this was working fine earlier in the morning and has now just died. She says her preferences have not been changed. Among other issues she is seeing that may be related are under the formatting menu, the 'select stylesheets' option is grayed out AND it is the only option she has. Even with 'full menus' set to on. Her version is 5.4 M050 with Macro$carf Windows XP 32bit.She is also getting an error about not being able to locate icons when she starts up. She checked that error on the PTC site and it says it has to do with UNIX systems (strange for a Windoze system). Thanks for any help.Lynn

Does she use fixed Editor and Print Composer licenses or concurrent licenses?

Curious: When you post to Adepters<">mailto::-> do you see your own posting? Before April of this year I saw all of mine, but not since. The only way I see it is if someone else replies and includes my post.I also suspect that I don't see posts from certain others. I have seen several posts that include a reply from Ed Benton (LM Space Systems) but I didn't see his post when he sent it.I don't find this desirable behavior because there is no good way for me to file my own posts (there is a mismatch if I grab a copy from the "Sent" folder.I sent e-mail to -<">mailto:-> at the end of April 2010 and he forwarded it to an administrator, but I never saw a fix or received an explanation.Does anyone have any influence to get the aberrant behavior changed?-Andy \ / Andy Esslinger LM Aero - Tech Order Data_____-/\-_____ (817) 279-0442 1 Lockheed Blvd, Mail Zone 4285 \_\/_/ (817) 777 3047 Fort Worth, TX 76108

This is what I'm trying to do:<xsl:if test="name(parent:receding-sibling)='volume">Or<xsl:if test="parent:receding-sibling::volume">Some of these XPath chapters show 3 in a row, but the parser just goes Pffft.Test if the parent's preceding sibling is <volume>.The parent tag varies, but will either have <volume> right above it or it won't.I've written it a hundred ways wrong and now my eyes are blurred from banging my head on my desk.Can't even run a good test to find it.<xsl:value-of select="name(parent:receding-sibling)"/">Adding ::node() just throws a parser error.Thanks...hope it is just another can't see the forest for the trees...what am I missing?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

Adepters:We're using AE 5.4 patch M050 and use the XHTML table model in our custom schema. We've noticed that when the table structure does not include <thead> or <tbody>, the <table> tag itself is not displayed in the editor. With <thead>/<tbody> applied, you see the table tag. This is in the table editor view, of course.Anyone know why this is true? Our authors want the table tag to always be visible.Dave HintzSiemens

Adepters:One of my users wants to search for comments. I can't see how you can do that. The user just wants to find each comment without concern for their content.Thanks,Dave

I provide IT support for a group of illustrators and we are currently using IsoDraw 7 M040. I recently upgraded one of the users to M090 and ran into a problem printing.One of the illustrations has text in a layer and the layer color is set to red. I believe the text itself is actually black but it displays as red on the screen. When the users still running M040 print this illustration the text prints in red. When the user running M090 prints out the same illustration the text prints in black. This same illustration has arrows in a different layer set to blue. The arrows print correctly in blue for all users.Any ideas?Thanks!

Hello,When I set 'border-width' to add a box for a block, the composed pdf will be a mess if there is a change bar generated.The message of PE is as follows."Warning: A page overset fault occurred. The page depth is 2688.01pt and the page goal is 644.97pt. (page 5)" Does anyone know how to fix this problem?Kinds RegardsBilly

I'm used to a different macro programming language in which you can have 1 macro do several different things by passing parameter(s) along with the macro name - e.g. macro_name 'yes' The macro then declares the parameter(s) e.g. parameter yes_no The parameter yes_no is then a variable yes_no with a value of 'yes' The macro then uses this variable to determine an action later on. For example, I have a macro that changes a drawing and saves it down again, but I now find I want a very similar macro that does everything except save the drawing down again. With a parameter, I could include an if statement in the macro to either save the drawing or not depending on the value of the parameter. Otherwise I will have to either copy the macro twice or split it into bits and run as separate macros Is there something similar to this in Isodraw? I have looked but can't find anything, though the terminology may be different.

My company has recently upgraded to Arbortext Editor 5.4. When I copy and paste a table from a word file (docx) using the paste special feature I get an “invalid paste structure” dialog box. I have tried to use the “table with no title” option but then all my content is wrappedwithin para tags. My tables are very simple tables, I’ve even tried to copy empty tables but get the same error. What am I missing? With your response please keep in mind that I’m just a user.Thanks JB

Did you try "Paste Excel"? TI seem to remember that I have had to paste a table into Excel, copy it, and then use "Paste Excel" to get it into my Arbortext document. \ / Andy Esslinger LM Aero - Tech Order Data_____-/\-_____ (817) 279-0442 1 Lockheed Blvd, Mail Zone 4285 \_\/_/ (817) 777 3047 Fort Worth, TX 76108

Hi all,I have a table XUI that I am working on, it is working pretty well. But I now what to add some more functions and they are giving me trouble. I want to remove the rowsep or colsep at the row and entry level. Here is the function I wrote:function removeSep ( oid, attname ) { var i,j; // local index variables var entryChildren; var oidChildren = oid.childNodes; // the oid passed was the tbody so this give me the rows for (i=0; i <= oidChildren.length; i++ ) { Application.alert ("remove seperators for i "+i+attname+" "+oidChildren.item(i).nodeName+" "+oidChildren.length ); oidChildren.item(i).removeAttribute(attname); // all the variables display correctly what I want entryChildren = oidChildren.item(i).childNodes; // here are the entry children of the row for (j=0; j <= entryChildren.length; j++) { Application.alert ("remove seperators for j "+j+attname+" "+entryChildren.item(j).nodeName+" "+entryChildren.length+" att= "+ entryChildren.item(j).getAttribute(attname)); // disp