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Currently, in my environment, enhanced completeness checking (which includes Schematron) only runs when the user manually runs the "cc" command or selects Completeness Check from the menu.    We would like Schematron to be continuously validating the content in the Editor in real time. Another option is to "force" a Completeness Check upon save or close, but because we are using a third party CCMS with its own Arbortext ACL programming in custom/init and scripts, we feel it is too risky to rewrite the save and close aliases ourselves to force the completeness check.    Unfortunately, this is necessary because some of our tech writers cannot seem to get in the habit of following process and running "cc" before checking content back in to the CCMS.   Any ideas? Thanks!   PS: We are running Arbortext Editor v6.0, but we should be on v7.1 by year end.

I made a stylesheet that was a copy of an existing, working stylesheet. I copied the modules, and, using the Organize Modules button, I removed the old modules and added in the new copied ones. I made no other changes, saved the stylesheet, and closed it. Then, when I try to re-open the stylesheet, I get the following error:   ERROR: Stylesheet includes module 'Engineering Style Sheet'  (C:\PTC\custom\doctypes\Engineering\Engineering_ditabase.style) multiple times in module hierarchy. The stylesheet module hierarchy may have been invalidated by other stylesheets that are currently open and share common modules with this stylesheet.    I looked through the modules in Notepad and can't find any reference to my stylesheet in them. I've tried duplicating this stylesheet a few times and keep getting the same error. I was able to successfully duplicate one previously.  Is there anyway I can fix this problem? Or perhaps does somebody know where I'm going wrong?  

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Many companies are looking for optimizing XML publishing capabilities to better support their customer needs. More and more product related documents, in different formats, with a variety of layouts, are needed. Required effort for that is often painful.Arbortext Publishing Engine is a powerful solution to enable high-end publishing to different formats in a cost-effective manner. It greatly supports formats such as PDF, HTML, eBook and Content Delivery. Arbortext Styler provides excellent efficiency to create and maintain stylesheets required for that. All without programming.In this webinar event, our well experienced partner DATACOPY will demonstrate the journey to easily move to the powerful Arbortext Publishing Engine. Beside some overview, Erwin Mueller will focus on live presentation for Arbortext Styler and Publishing Engine. Erwin is a Senior Principal Consultant optimizing XML high-end publishing solutions for customers across Europe for more than 2 decades.   Please Joi

We have use jt files that are exported from SolidEdge. We open our pre sized template and place one or two JT files  on the standard layer in isodraw. We then adjust the models as required, convert from 3d to 2D, scale and move it to fit on our template. Then if we convert back to 3D sometimes the models are at axis in the image not at the one that it was on before 2d'ing it. We also have issues where going back to 3D the model goes back to being the original size not the scaled size. We have tried to do all our scaling in the 2d environment. If you have any suggestions that would be great.   Thanks Bryon

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We use Arbortext 7.0 authoring tool and APE to export to PDF.  Our stylesheet is using Arial Unicode. Upon initial review of our PDF the Operations Manual appears okay at 100% view. But upon closer inspection, the PDF is duplicating the letters in our titles. This happens, we thought, when it was just our headers that were bolded.  OOppeerraattiioonnss MMaannuuaall But upon further investigation, it appears that anything we bold has double letters. Is it because of the font?  In Arbortext 6 we used Helen Pro, a font we purchased without issue, except we had to have different fonts for Asian languages.

Dear All, I would like to inform you on a new addition to PTC Arbortext Content Delivery's Download Page , It  now contains the "Customization examples" zip package that holds a set of frequently implemented customization examples, as well as instructions document, which guides you through the steps of implementing those in your Arbortext Content Delivery deployment environment.    Please check this out!!    

In IsoDraw 7.2, I have the ability to cut a line at the intersection of another line using F5 or F6. Sometimes, I wish to cut many lines in this manner along a path. It is very inefficient to delete a part of each line individually, sometimes there are hundreds of lines. Is there any kind of functionality or even a macro that could accomplish this?

Hi, using ISODROW7.3 i need to get in messagebox the position X,Y of text. I tried this but it 's not running, please can you help me DEFINE el AS ElementSelect IF Type is equal to "Text"el = activeDoc.firstSelectedElementWHILE (Exists (el) = true )define a as string define b as stringa = el.position.x.string b= el.position.y.stringmessage a + b  

We have a macro that does three wait mousebutton calls to get three points to allow us to draw a figure. The issue being is if we don't click quickly enough (can vary from 2 to 10ish seconds) the entire program locks up and we have to kill IsoDraw to continue. Has anybody seen this before?   Thanks, Martin

These bug fix-only releases are available on the PTC download site.   8.1.0.1 can be installed on top of an 8.1.0.0 release or it can be installed by itself.  8.1.0.1 contains all 8.1.0.0 and 8.1.0.1 release updates.

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I have some titles that, through a condition, add a "NEW" image to indicate that this section is new.When I do the TOC the image added in the condition with a generated text of type suffix does not appear. How can I make it appear.   Example of how it appears in the document. Example of how it appears in the TOC Example of how I want it to appear   I use Docbook and Styler. Thank you,

Hello, When Arbortext is started with no document loaded, the "Entities" menu and submenus are disabled. With the ACL language, how to activate the "Entities" menu and the sub-menus ? David

PTC’s Arbortext Business Unit is committed to providing ongoing feature-rich releases of the Arbortext product suite.  Each release also addresses requested product fixes and has enhancements to the product’s security features.  PTC encourages customers to keep current with Arbortext releases so they have the latest updates and fixes. Effective immediately, the PTC Arbortext Editor, PTC Arbortext Styler, PTC Arbortext Publishing Engine, PTC Arbortext Architect, PTC Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher, PTC Arbortext Layout Developer, and PTC Arbortext Layout Editor products are changing the lifecycle of our releases.      The new Standard Lifecycle End Dates for the Arbortext release streams are: Arbortext 8.0.0.0,  8.0.1.0: March, 2022 Arbortext Layout Developer 12.0.0.0, 12.0.1.0:  March, 2022   Arbortext 8.1.0.0: October, 2022 Arbortext Layout Developer 12.1.0.0: October, 2022   There will be no maintenance releases for these streams after

I was wondering if there is any built in functionality for a chgmark to continue along the top of a landscape page instead of vertically.    Using Arbortext 7.1 Architect 

Arbortext Editor/Styler/Publishing Engine 8.1.0.0 has released! October 20, 2020   Key Highlights Multimedia support in Styler Publishing Engine Security improvements Graphic Preview pane in the CMS Browser The size and location of the Modify Attributes dialog is maintained across sessions New toolbar for CMS operations Add Insert Markup By Category toolbar icon  (previously was Insert Divisions) Strings in the DITA Resource Manager tree control display more than 30 characters

I am using Arbortext Editor with Styler V7.0 M070 with DTD 38784STS-BV9a. Somehow, the numbering of the figures in my Appendix got out of whack. In my chapter 8 I have 35 figures and they are numbered 1-35. But in my appendix the first figure shows as A-36. I need it to be A-1. Any help is appreciated.

Hi Folks,We have been using Arbortext as a publishing tool for almost a year now. So far we have not had too many issues we haven't been able to overcome. Typically our documents are between 50 - 200 rendered pages and contain images, lists, cross references, and often many tables.From time to time, I get complaints from users indicating that after rendering documents multiple times, they get segment violations and Arbortext closes. The work around is to restart and keep going. It seems that the more complex the tables get (cell spanning) the more likely we have issues. For fun, I took a document and copied the content many times over to see what would happen when we have a larger document - the result is Arbortext will just crash about 330 pages or so into rendering. From a system perspective, I can see memory usage climb (x32 version here) to just over 1.1 GB before the crash. The error I commonly see is editor.exe: segment violation (signal 11).My question is this, how do others han

PTC Arbortext Content Delivery enables access to updated configuration-specific, documents, precision search, navigation and filtration pinpoint, with powerful bookmarking, interactive notes sharing and feedback capabilities, allowing the user to find the necessary high-quality information, right on time, boosting user productivity.   Learn more about the recent enhancements in this new release of PTC Arbortext Content 7.1.4.0 at this upcoming webinar on December 9th.For more information and to register, here's the event link: https://lnkd.in/et6tt2G Do not miss it!!

We have a menu file that we are trying to call up, using the siteprefs file. It should get the menu file from the unzipped application folder, but I cannot figure out what the path should look like. The file is located in the custom\lib folder. If I enter the entire path I can see the menu. But that does not work for my other users then.    <Variable name="APTMENUFILE" value="..\custom\lib\menu.cf"/></EnvironmentVariables>   Thanks   Bryon

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Does anyone use Isodraw (or Creo Illustrate) instead of Adobe Illustrator to do their 2d artwork that goes on the outside of a product? I thought I heard someone say in the past that they do this, but recent conversations seem to indicate that these tools are primarily for the 3d conversion for publications. I'm curious to hear about the Adobe Illustrator replacement capabilities.   Thanks!