SLM (Service)

Hello, We are using Arbortext Editor 5.4 for authoring some newsletter in SGML. My editors need to know the number of characters in their title. I know we can count the number of words... but it's not relevant for them. So I'm guessing if it's possible to count the numbers of chars in a tag with a macro or something else... Thanks for your help. Regards.

Description: I have DITA bookmap with topics (User Manual). I load them to Windchill. I get dynamic documents: DITA bookmap A.1 topics...A.1   Then I publish them to PDF and then print it. I give printed manual to my customer(1). Then I change topic_1 from this manual: DITA bookmap A.1 topic_1 A.2 other topics...A.1 Then I republish User Manual to PDF and print it. I give printed manual to another customer(2).This is another User Manual than have customer(1).Then customer(I don't know which - 1 or 2) calls to our tech support and says that he finds the error in our User Manual.   How to identify which User manual does he mean? How to find it in Windchill?If I have 1000+ bookmaps, 10000+topics with 100+ versions, 10000+ customers.My question is about what metadata from Windchill I should use to track my printed documents with their Windchill objects.   I only see this way: Use version attribute of Dynamic Document from Windchill(burst settings) in DITA bookmap&nb

Hi, I am new with APP, better said with how APP works. I am trying to put together a list of effective pages (LEP).   I do understand the concept of traversing the document, extract the page number for each page and put it into a javascript global variable of type array and extract the info from the array into a lep page set or page region. What I am having trouble with is where (in what edit source?) to declare the array global variable and then how to access the array from the page set or from the page region.   Thank you for help in advance!   Florin

Hello, is anyone else having trouble with the tif export giving a crisp image? I was at one time gettting nice clean images that opened in Photoshop and now they are broken up. Example of text the letters are smooth and now they have pixles missing on the edges.

Need the sitepref.xml settings for prompting the CAC card reader.

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My pc at the office has a locked license. When I access my office pc from my home computer apparently I am using a floating license. So basically I am using both locked and floating licenses. Consequently, less licenses available to other users. Why does the license type change when accessing through VPN? I am connecting directly to my office pc where AE is installed. Should it not use the locked license?

Is there any way to add a box around a GentText using APP?

Hello, All!Please help. How convert my graphics file from CGM to JPG?I have used API IsoView (ActiveXcontrol), but don't know any good functions for it.

I'm new to this Arbortext Community, and Arbortext in general, and this isn't a question, merely an observation. I'm discouraged by the number of questions that appear to be unanswered. With all the "users" on this page, why isn't there a larger push to help other users? I and can't provide much insight or help to others, but my question hasn't been answered, either, and I can't believe that everyone else here is a noob like me.Moderators? Experts? Where are you when your peasants need you?

Is there any way to add a box around a GentText using APP?

Using Arbortex Editor 5.4 M170 in windows 7 machine, Planning to upgrade to Windows 10. Let me know Editor 5.4 installs and works without any issues in Windows 10.   Thanks in Advance.   Satheesh

PDF Bookmarks: I can produce bookmarks in pdf (using DCF) Titles, Tables, Figures. But once a graphic is added to the figure title, the figure bookmark disappears when producing pdf. How to fix issue this bookmark issue?

A black diamond with a white question mark symbol is appearing randomly at the top of our DITA xml content. Both in English and French content. It is the hex code ࿽ Does anyone know why this symbol is appearing?  

Hello, I am posting this problem for one of our developers.   In an .acl file, we are using the functions ‘oid_modify_attrs’ and ‘oid_delete_attr’.   When running the .acl on an .xml file opened directly from within Epic (File > Open [filename] or opening the xml from a ditamap file, the atttibute function calls work as expected. When working from within Resolved Document View, the functions fail.   What needs to be done differently in order for these functions to work in Resolved Document View?   Thank you, Will  

Has anyone had any luck finding a tag DESCRIPTION table or a listing for 40051C_6_0? If anyone knows where a listing is can you please direct me to it? 

Hi, We are trying to do  update  Arbor Text  Editor from version 5.4 to latest version of 7.1.   And we have a few dtd which need to be compiled with respect to the editor 7.1.   In doing so, we are loosing support for version 5.4.   We are getting the following popup in  older version of Arbor Text 5.4      (if we are compiling the dtd with 5.4,then in 7.1 we are getting this dialog.)   Could anyone pease let us know if there is any work-around to support both the versions of Arbor Text.   Regards, Venkatesh  

Hello, I am new to ACL.   We are trying to use the sh command to call Tortoise SVN, and are hoping there is a way to get the value returned by the command that sh calls. For example, we were hoping something like this might work:       local testVariable = sh svn commit C:\filepath\filename     if(testVariable==0) { response('success'); }     if(testVariable==1) { response('failure'); }   Where svn returns 0 or 1 for success or failure. We tried the above, and it doesn't work.   Does anyone know if there is anyway to use sh and get the value returned by the command it executes?   Thanks, Will  

Hi Everyone,   I have a huge ammount of jpg's that I wish to import into a Isodraw file. The Isodraw file has a frame (rectangle) inside...all elements should not exceed the boundaries of this rectangle.The jpg's are of various sizes, therefore I need to check the size of the jpg in mm and based on the result the relevant Isodraw file will be implemented (2 possible frame sizes).   I have seached in the Macro Reference Manual for a command that reads the dimensions of an image file, unfortunately without any success. Does anyone have any ideas?   I am aware there are other methods, such as Select If Bounding Box which I will implement if I cannot read the dimensions of an image in mm. Any ideas?     Many thanks in advance.   Alan

I have a need to call the Arbortext Publshing Engine from a .BAT file instead of from an Arbortext Editor session.  I want to be able to send a .ditamap to the Arbortext Publshing engine, specify a style sheet that is on the Publishing Engine, pass a .ditval file to be used for processing, and specifying the location where the resulting PDF should be stored.I would think that this should be pretty straight forward, but I cannot seem to find any documentation on the process.  Am I missing something?

Is there any way to limit the size of images in the ArborText Editor window? Here's the situation: We use a custom table to display <steps>. Each <step> is a row, <cmd> is the first column, <substeps> in the second, and <info> is in the third. We place photos or screenshots in <info> by using <img>, but ususally don't use @scale or @width to resize images. In PDF output, The column widths are set to (0.5in 1* 1*), so the images are automatically scaled to fit the width of the third column. The problem: Some of our photos are huge--like >2000 pixels wide. In Arbortext Editor (v7.0 M030), images appear at 100%, so we have to scroll down forever to get to the next step. In addition, we cannot scroll to the right to see the whole image. Ideal solution: Set up some sort of rule that says somkething like:For step/info/img, scale images in ATE so that they are no more than 900px (or 3in) wide. This rule would ideally be applied ony to the styl

Hi,   I was able to download the Servigistics Arbortext Editor with Styler 7.0 Free Trial Evaluation zip file, but I am not able to obtain the license file. After filling out the request page, I am redirected to an error page with this message: Invalid parameter values have been passed in. The application cannot continue.   Any help appreciated.   Thanks,   SJ  

Has anyone had any luck creating an auto build acronym list for 40051C_6_0? I know how to manually create the list, but looking for a way to tag acronyms to auto generate. If anyone knows how to do this can you list the elements you used? 

App Publish Error: Pg 1 New page sequence not specified; used fallback 'defaultPage'. [1035] (1:"editorDom0"#2;/})   i am very new using Arbortext, when i preview PDF page, the background color is red with elements showing    

Hi,   We are using Arbortext Styler 7 and I am confused by the result of the widow and orphan settings. It seems to work for paragraphs and tables. But I can't get it to work for other elements.   For instance, I added the rule on the element "bulletedlist" which has "listitem" as children, which in turn has "para" and the likes. I want a rule on the bulletedlist to keep at least two listitems together. I have several similar cases where I want to add a widow/orphan rule on a parent element.   Am I doing something wrong, or do I need to add a feature request in the idea section of this community?