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Hi all.I'm always annoyed by the generation of pdf files from arbortext editor 5.4.I begin to believe that compose a batch of pdf files is impossible unless you know to program in ACL.So, when I compose a pdf file, I can choose 2 options:Use of distiller set to off and I generate my pdf file with the standard.pdfcf fileUse of distiller set to on and I generate my pdf with the PS printer wich is Adobe pdf.I don't understand why my generated pdf files are always in 216 x 279 mm.I want them in A4.Whatever the setting of the useditiller option, I always have 216 x 279 mm files.The comic part of the history is:1) It's impossible to generate pdf files by batch instead of one by one2) I've always 216 x 279 mm pdf files3) I must gather them in one pdf files (publication of amount XML files)4) I must create all the bookmarks manually and one by one5) When I did all these steps, if the content of one of my XML file has changed, I must incorporate it in the pdf publication and I have to resize th

I have created a custom content pipeline for htmlfile.ccf, i have added a filter in that. i have also added the corresponding .ent for the custom filter which call the filter class implemented in java. The new filter/content pipeline is working fine in Arbortext editor but not in Arbortext Publishing Engine. I really need to solve this problem. I hope someone here will be able to answer my question.

We are using Arbortext Editor 6.1 M020. We are beginning to use MathML instead of ATIMath. We are using MathFlow 2.0b for Arbortext as our equation editor. I am creating a FOSI that will allow our copyeditors to produce a very lightly formatted manuscript (PS or PDF) for internal QC purposes. An example of an equation is:<disp-formula id="df1" medium="all">     <mml:math altimg="C:\Users\rschoen\AppData\Local\Temp\MMLIMG2768143.png" display="block"> ...      </mml:math></disp-formula>Since MathFlow has already created an image of the equation for us, I would like to have the FOSI use that to produce the output manuscript. I would like to grab the value of the altimg attribute of the mml:math tag and have that image displayed in the output but I'm not sure whether that is possible. And, if it is possible, how to go about doing it. Can anyone help?Thanks,Rick Schoen

Hi All,I have a customer here in India Atlas Copco GECIA,which is into Technical and Service Parts information creation and publishing.As a part of their deliverable, they also create Technical illustration using Isodraw CADProcess.They have reduced their time at least by 26%,for creating the technical illustration,when compared to their previous processes.I would like to know(benchmark) how much more scope is there to reduce this time further?So if we benchmark,how much time other/your companies are taking to create illustrations,lets say  for an an assembly of 10 components and 5 illustrations?For example it could be 5 man/hours for an assembly of 10 components and creating 5 illustrations.I would like to benchmark it with in what time other companies are doing it ,if we take the parameter of 10 components and 5 illustrations.Please let me know if you need more information and interested to discuss it further in detail.Thanks and Regards,Mayur Agare

Hi,we use the entity list in the Arbortext Editor 6.1 to insert some special unicode-entities. As you can see we also can insert the unicode "‌":Unfortunately if we insert this entity the user cannot see the inserted entity:Only if we open the selected text as xml source we can see this entity code:Therefore we would like to ask the community if there is a possibility to visualize entities in the document.We thought about a button, where we could toggle the view, where the user can activate the entity view or not. Is this possible? Or is there any other option to show the entity code for the users in the normal tag-view of the Arbortext Editor?Thank you in advance for your help.

We are using Arbortext 5.4 M70. 

Hello gurus!So I'm tying to modify a Table that I inserted using tbl_insert() acl command, working in a DITA Topic file and using the Insert>Table>OASIS Exchange... option from the Arbortext Editor Menu; what I want to do is to add a new row at the end of the table and also insert the tags <title/> and <desc/> as a predefined format for the selected table.Does anybody knows how can I achieve this? I've been looking up in the ACL guide but I haven't found something clear. Please help me!In advance I appreciate your time and help.Paulette Z.

Is there some trick or hidden option to type text in ISODraw 7.3 and have it follow along a path or ellipse? I have a drawing from a 3D model but I need to type the word "WIND" with directional arrows on the face of a control wheel that is turned. (The 3D model does not include the word on the part). The word needs to be curved around an ellipse to make it look right. I'd like to be able to do this from within ISODraw and not have to use Illustrator to accomplish this.Any ideas? Thanks.

Hi,in one of our xml-workflow we must insert a processing instructions before the <row>-Element within a cals-table.If we do this, unfortunately we cannot see this pi in the Arbortext Editor table-view:As you can see the processing instruction is hidden. Only if we activate the markup view in tables, we can see the pi, but unfortunately in a non user-friendly view of the cals-table with markups:Does anybody has an idea how we can visualize the inserted pi for the users?We tried to do this with styler but without success. We use Arbortext Editor 6.1.M060.Thank you in advance for your help.Greetings from Nördlingen (Germany)

I am trying to see if I can determine if a given object has textual content.  The goal is to be able to find objects in a graphic that contain specific textual terms and highlight such objects.I have the following basic code to walk the CGM object tree:function walkCgm(cgm, id) {   if (!id) return;   var n = cgm.Iso3GetChildCount(id);   if (n > 0) {     var child = cgm.Iso3GetFirstChild(id);     while (child) {       walkCgm(cgm, child);       child = cgm.Iso3GetNextSibling(child);     }   } } walkCgm(cgm, cgm.Iso3GetRootObject()); What I am struggling with is I see no function in the IsoView reference that allows me to determine if I have a text object and then extract the text so I can do processing and comparisons on the text.In case it matters, I am working with IsoView 7.3.

We have a ditamap with nested mapref's we are trying to get the nested mapref toc's to show at level 2 or the level below the mappref itself. We can't seem to do that does anyone have a suggestion?

Can some one with Dita knowledge (that is not me) answer my question. What should be displayed in the rev column?If I set the rev level on a topic that is a procedure. Why does it not show up in my Ditamap. I can change the rev level in the Ditamap but that rev level has nothing to do with the actual topic itself. It only changes the referenced files rev level in that particular ditamap. So If I use the same topic in two Ditamaps. According to the particular Ditamap, the topic could be rev A in one and rev B in the other, becuse the rev level is set in the Ditamap. But when opening the specific reused topic it could be a rev D already. We don't have a CMS, which I would expect would make this easier. How does one without a CMS manage rev levels of individual topics in a Ditamap with no way to see the rev level in the Ditamap.ThanksBryon

Hi, I try export the cgm in WebCGM2.1 format with VDC Extent setting as Page size but export is still include  all points. What's wrong?. Thanks Jan.

Is there any function within IsoDraw macro language that will read text from an external textfile?Completely Frustrated,Jim

Hello We're trying to instantiate an ActiveX IsoView from Visual Studio 2010 with C #. Whenever instantiate it gives the error: Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED)). What would be the way to instantiate it? Does anyone have sample code? Thank you

Hello All,Is it possible to inverse the selection in IsoDraw Arbotex, The reason is to find out the elements outside of drawing sheet frame.Thanks,Selin Raja.M

Is it possible to install Arbortext isodraw 7.1 under Windows 10 home, i've read on the internet that it is not working.It seems that it installs jre1.5 and then try to install Arbortext and then stops after a few seconds.

I found the following in this community, is it still valid?  Arbortext 6.0/6.1-Remote Desktop Access     Correct Answer by GarethOakes on May 21, 2015 9:46 AMSorry,I'm not sure about the documentation, but we have done this for a number of customers:Trade in your fixed (locked) licenses for registered user licenses.     This requires help from PTC license supportInstall FlexNet Publisher licensing server and import registered user     licensesUpdate client machines to have PTC_D_LICENSE_FILE=7788@license-serveClient machines now use the registered user licenses and Remote Desktop will work.Any updates out there?

PTC product to delivery electronic parts catalog.

I created a XUI dialog box which contains an object "tabbox" (panel) including two objects "tabpanel" (tab).In ACL language, how to recover the name of the active tab (tabpanel) when the dialog box is open?

Is there a setting or attribute that can be used to keep a table row from splitting between pages when the table crosses page boundaries?  I've got a table of technical manuals, some with ridiculously long names, and it just looks so ugly when it breaks across a page.  All of the information in the entire row is on the first page -- with no bottom border, mind you -- and the remaining portion of the row at the beginning of the next page contains only the remainder of the title, with all other cells blank, of course.  But I can't make any sense whatsoever of the available table attributes or their options.  And needless to say, Help is worthless.Thanks,Mic

Is there a way of selecting text on an illustration and finding the centre of the text in a macro?I can only find what seems to be the lower left load point (.text.startpoint), but I want to mirror text about it's centre.

Hi,Is it possible to encrypt the ACL code or is there a solution to prevent users to read or modify the ACL code ?David

Hi,With an ACL function, how to add a new entry in the New Document Dialog Box (newlist variable)?With an ACL function, How to test if this entry exists?David

With an ACL function, how to recover the installation path of Arbortext software? Is there a variable that gives this information?