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Using workspaces in Arbortext Content Manager (or Windchill) can be a bit confusing. How do you keep it clean? When should you create one? How long should you keep a workspace? How do you know which one to us (if you have several)? And, hey, while we're at it, why might you have several? What is a workspace for anyway? What does it mean? In this session we're going to talk about workspaces in Arbortext Content Manager and Windchill: How to use them effectively and what the best practices are for managing them.This session is accessible to Beginners just getting started with Windchill and Arbortext.View the RecordingThe video is now available for viewing: Watch this episode of Arbortext TC Dojo Online on our Vimeo On Demand ChannelTC Dojo Mastermind group members can watch it for free on the forums.About The TC DojoThe TC Dojo is brought to you by Single-Sourcing Solutions. At the TC Dojo, you pick the topics and we find the experts. Be sure to vote on future TC Dojo webinar topics.

Can any one suggest how to do a program or set of instruction (like macro) which will show the errors in the authoring file (content) on running the program.Eg: The statement should be Correct: “put the unit in position”Wrong:  “put the unit in its position”If we use in its position in the authoring, it should show error

I know you can highlight it and choose edit, fit elements. This will center it but it will scale it to fit the square. Is there an automatic way to center the object on the page without scaling it?

Hello - The question I have deals with error detection within Arbortext.  Background:  I work in a group of 6 engineers that write service documentation using the SGML verion of Arbortext. This group includes a single book-boss, who is the most expert in SGML editor tools, including Arbortext.I typically work on small books (100 - 200 pages) that are combined into larger books that amount to in excess of 4,000 pages.  When the junior writers submit smaller files (IDE) to the book-boss, one task performed by the book-boss is to remove formatting problems and things that might cause problems with the book to build without error.  I recently submitted a small book (<100 pages) IDE file to the book boss that had a syntax error that was not detectable using the "Completeness Check" or "Green Checkmark" or the publishing tool used to build.It was discovered after three days of debugging at the larger book level (>4,000 pages) that the error I introduced was an extra

Just wondering, have a guy working on some S1000D screen FOSIs, but not being a FOSI guy or having ready access to styler, is there a way to open, for instance, the crewSchema.xsd as a doctype, and allow for opening a test doc to use the FOSI panels?Been goofing with directory structures, URI catalog entries, the closest I can get is doc arch will open the crewSchema without error, but errors when trying to open a test doc.Is this just a limitation of doc arch, or is there another way?thanks,-Jason

We would like to ask about the hardware & software requirements for the "Advanced Print Publisher win32 11.1".Thank you in advanceLipiatos Alexandros

Hello gurus!! I'm having an issue with one of my implementations in the Arbortext Editor, as you might see, I'm receiving the message from the image I'm attaching, does anybody know how  to manage virtual memory space in the editor? Is that possible? In advance I appreciate your time and help.Paulette Z.

Hi All,I use Arbortext editor 6.0 M060, I can't set the promptnodtd to on because  i can't find it in the options list.It should be set to on by default, but  when I open a document without a doctype declaration, the editor open it  in free-form XML mode, without prompting for the dtd.Anyone can help me?thanksSonia

I currently have a FOSI that is failing to compile/print most of the times (but not all of the time).In the "formatter messages" window, the warning is "An empty page fault occurred."In the event log, the warning is "Error: Failure post-processing for composer type pdf.  FATAL ERROR: Operation terminated."and"ERROR: Runtime error formatting document: main:: Error='[A12627] Error: A fatal formatting error occurred.  Refer to the formatting faults log file "file name here"."The log file has been of no help.  I am unable to consistently get this FOSI to compile or fail at the same elements or point in processing, nor does it repeat with any other FOSI.Any ideas?

Anyone know the cause(s) of the "Error return '0' from ACL DVI generator" fatal error from the composition engine?

Hi All,We are using Arbortext Editor 6.0 M080 and create a contents by using DITA Task and publishing the PDF copies after adding to DITA BookMap.My requirement now is I have 2 different manuals to publish which is having common content and few instructions are different. I have created a DITA task with common content and different instructions for different manuals in the same file.Added this file to DITA bookmap but, I don't know how to publish manuals separately now? What is the conditions I have to define? Which file I have to modify to get this output?I have attached a PDF which explains the conditions and also I have attached the DITA file for reference.Thank you,Regards,Rajesh L

Hi All,I need to change the newline processing instruction markup. Has anyone done this before ?Kind RegardsAshona

Hello,I exported svg from isodraw 7.1 and imported in editor 6.1. The pdf output does not come very well. If export the same image to eps it comes perfect.I have attached screenshot and svg fileCan anyone help?ThanksManoj

I just had Arbortext Editor 7.0 installed today and wondering where my print preview is located?I can not locate on my local machine or installation disk. Is this file available for download?

  This works in AE 6.0, but not 6.1. AE can't find the graphic file. From what I've read in the help I don't know what else is required:putgraph graphname="logo" placemnt="before" hscale="65" vscale="65"></putgraph>  Declared in the fosi:<!ENTITY logo PUBLIC "-//WOODWARD//ENTITIES CMM Logo//EN" NDATA cgm><!NOTATION cgm PUBLIC "-//ISBN 0-7923-9432-1::Graphic Notation//NOTATION ANSI/ISO Computer Graphics Metafile//EN">  catalog:PUBLIC "-//WOODWARD//ENTITIES CMM Logo//EN" "entities/xxxxxxx.cgm" (the file is there as well as in the doctype folder. I've also tried a fully qualified URL (C:/Program Files/PTC/Arbortext PE/custom/doctypes/.../xxxxxxx.cgm) 

Hello all-The PTC Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher 11.0 M100 release is now available for customers to download.  The release is available from the PTC Software Download page under “Order or Download Software Updates”.  It is located under the “Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher” product family, at the location shown in the screenshot below.For more details regarding this maintenance release, please check out the following documents:11.0 M100 Release Notes11.0 M100 Software Compatibility MatricesThank  you!

I am pleased to announce that PTC Arbortext Editor/Styler/Architect/Publishing Engine 6.1 M080 is now available for customer download from the PTC Software Download page under “Order or Download Software Updates”. For more details regarding this maintenance release, please check out the following documents:6.1 M080 Release NotesSPR Fixes in 6.1 M0806.1 M080 Software Compatibility MatricesThank you!

Hi.I Have a this problem...In C # project registration epic lib phenomenon is not properly registered.Arbortext 7.0(64bit)  is currently installed on the notebook.(styler and editor ...)When you add the lib reference document in the program, proceed as follows:can not see the Library. this is problem..Arbortext 7.0 is installed  why Library  is 6.0?Is there another way?OS : windows 7 (64bit)compiler : visual studio 2008language : C#source : arbotext sample code

Hi,our users often copy and paste text from a pdf file into a xml file in Arbortext Editor 6.1.If they do this, they get the carriage return into xml, which is displayed like an arrow:Now we would like to search this carriage returns, which has the entity-code: 
Unfortunately we cannot search this returns. This is also not possible with the "find" command. The only way to find them, is the method with "find selection". But we also would like to replace them.Anybody an idea?Thank you in advance for your help.

Hi,we work with the Arbortext Editor 6.1 and want to copy e.g. lists from a Winword document into the xml file. With a dcf file we can control how the Editor inserts this fragments into xml.Everything works like bold, italic and paragraphs. But in numbered lists we would like to insert the number as an attributeValue.Example:This is a list in Word:If we copy this list and insert into our xml file in Arbortext Editor, we get following structure:As you can see there is always "1." as attribute value inside the <item>-tag. This is because we have following entry in our dcf-file:Do you have an idea, if it is possible to insert the number which is countered in word into a xml attribute with an dcf-file? We hope you can help us. Thank you in advance for your help.

Hi everyone!I tried to create a trialkey for Arbortext with my Host-ID using this page.I entered my Host-ID like this 00-11-AA-BB-22-CC (not my real Host-ID), but I get redirected to this error page all the time.Can you tell my, why I cannot generate a license file?

We are in the process of updating to TIA from SMA. Currently with SMA we have two stylesheets one for Editor and one for print. Is this common? What are the disadvantages if we only have one? Benefits of having two?ThanksBryon

Hello,Here's a brief overview of the situation;We have 4 licences in total at the moment, two for IsoDraw 7.1 with CADProcess and the other two for IsoDraw 7.1 Foundation, running from a licence server, the problem currently being experienced is that we cannot open IsoDraw 7.1 in foundation only mode because it defaults to opening with CADProcess thus not allowing computers to run the foundation licences.Could the problem be caused by the command line used to launch the software (missing command, etc.)?Command Line: C:\Program Files (x86)\PTC\Arbortext IsoDraw 7.1\Program\IsoDraw71.exe==Edit 05/02/2016==Stated in the screen capture below, newer versions of IsoDraw (7.3) allow you to choose which one is activated from inside a UI, while in older versions (such as ours) the command line was apparently the only way to set the licence options.This is why I think a modification to the command line above could fix the problem we face, does anybody know what that modification would be?Regards

To kick off our TC Dojo Arbortext Edition, we took your requests and decided to jump right in to Styler. In this first session, we will show you how to build your foundation for your first Arbortext Style Sheet using the Single-Sourcing Solutions’ method. This is how we create new projects for our customers and this is how we coach and mentor our customers.This session is accessible to Beginners just getting started with Styler StylesheetsView the RecordingThe video is now available for viewing: Watch this episode of Arbortext TC Dojo Online on our Vimeo On Demand ChannelTC Dojo Mastermind group members can watch it for free on the forums.About The TC DojoThe TC Dojo is brought to you by Single-Sourcing Solutions. At the TC Dojo, you pick the topics and we find the experts. Be sure to vote on future TC Dojo webinar topics.

I know, we are dinosaurs. But I have been told that Print Preview is not available on 5.4. We use it on 5.3, but for users with 5.4 Print Preview is grayed out. We are moving a group to 5.4 and would really like to have Print Preview.