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We have been dealing with this, on and off, since 2013. When working in AE the users are copying and then dragging content from one location within a table to another. Using copy/paste with CTRL+C and CTRL+V reduces the jumping but the screen still does jump. Or pasting content within a new list item makes the screen jump. The user then has to scroll down to the original location to insert the copied content. I have opened a case with PTC but no solution as yet. Does anyone have any idea as to what would be causing the screen to jump? Has anyone else experienced this? HELP!

Hi,When the document check-in to Windchill, Arbortext Editor can create 'Baseline' to Windchill.('PromptForBaseline=on' in siteprefs.xml)But, there is no way to use baseline in Arbortext Editor.As I know Arbortext Editor use only latest Configuration Spec..Why is Arbortext Editor supporting creation Baseline ?Best Regards.Kim, Joon O

Hi All,I am creating an illustrations Catalog in my enterprise from XML docs to HTML, with the Compose For Web tool. All the process runs ok, but my problem is when the program download the images from Windchill PDM and save them in a local folder, it saves them with a random name distinct from original. I would like customize this process and keep the same names in the local folder. I need to know where the Arbortext Editor makes it!!I put you an example:My original image have the name IL025368.cgm, and when I run the program, it saves it in my folder with the name xwc4345242677753719289X3938.png .  All the images downloaded have the same format, they begins with "xwc" and have the "X" char in the same position that this one. All the numbers are generated randomly.Could somebody help me? I have this problem many time ago and I need already solve it!!Thank you very much,Raúl Alonso

Can someone tell me how to unlock a DCF file from read-only.I am trying to do this from Editor does it behave differently in Architect?The strange thing is when I open it it does not show as being read only I just can't do anything

  Hello,  If I publish pdf and change element is put under page header, change word (Změna 1) in page footer is displayed incorrectly (twice). If change elements are among page header and footer or text of change element starts on first page and ends on second page, change word in page footer is displayed correctly (once).  I use Arbortext Styler 6.1, FOSI engine  Thanks  RichK

What company provides the best consulting in the US? Just curious as we are looking for expertise for con refs and style sheets on ver 6.0. We have been using AT for 5 years and have yet to utilize the full potential in my opinion. Got to ask the questions, they are free. It's the answers that cost!

I'm having trouble applying custom css rules to my html file. I've followed the instructions from the Arbortext Help but I see no changes to my file. Am I missing out on something?

When using this method with the flag 0x002 (Suppress the prompt that unsaved changes will be discarded) the dialog that is suppressed is still displayed for a moment as a little box (see attached) in the center of the Arbortext Editor window.We've even had situations where this little box has not disappeared but stayed on screen and waited for the user. All the user could do then was hit ESC which closed the dialog and carried on.

Hi.I search since a long time but I never found a solution to compose my pdf at one time.I need to publish my xml files for my customer and I compose my pdf files one by one !Sometimes I have more than 50 files.I've read some solutions, but they are not enough accurate (pieces of acl code or prompts) and I'm not a great programmer.I'm very interested to learn how to write a script or launch some prompts to realize some tasks but tutos for real beginers are rare.I have the version 5.4 of arbortext editor and perhaps some of you have a good solution for me.Why this feature doesn't exist in the arbortext menus ?Select all the xml files instead only one and compose pdf...Thanks by advance for your answers and your lights.Best regards.

How many tests can Styler 7.0 handle? 46000 is too low...How many characters an XPath expression can have in Styler 7.0? 1024 is too low...Florin

Is there a method to add multiple page pdf files to the finished pdf document via Arbortext or the PE? No need to add page numbers/headers/etc. I just need to merge in raw pdf files to the end of the published document. I found several old posts pointing to the use of itext, but that is an external library that has been modified throughout the years and is no longer the same program it was before and I'd really rather accomplish this from within Arbortext itself.

Hi All,I am creating an illustrations catalog in HTML. I make it from a XML file and I use the tool Compose - For Web. I would like customize the part of downloading the images that are included in the XML to a local folder, called graphics, wich is the source of the HTML doc; This images are in Windchill PDM. I dont know where Arbortext Editor make this process, I need customize it because I dont want download all of them, I only want download the new images, and actually the program downloads all images, and it makes the process very slow...I want do a comparison between images in the last HTML doc created and the images in the new XML (they usually are few new images), and I want the program download to the source folder of the HTML only that new images.Could someone help me?Thanks,Raúl Alonso

Hi, I'm new to ACL and am having trouble understanding tables and callback functions. I intend to add some tags to a recently inserted table. My first step is to add my callback function for any document  to be invoked after inserting a table:doc_add_callback(0, table_insert_after, myCB)Unfortunately, it seems like the code within myCB is never run. No errors when adding myCB and no messages when inserting a table in the editor. Anyone knows why this is happening?Thanks in advance,

DITA file has been opened from Windchill 10.1. The user accesses the AE Object drop-down menu but several options are not available. For instance "Check Out", "Undo Check Out", "Check In Object" are grey and cannot be accessed. Note: this issue does not seem to occur all the time. Has anyone else experienced this issue? Does anyone know the cause?

Hi,I've heard that APP enterprise will disappear to be integrated directly to APE.Someone can say me more about that and when this change will be applied ?APP tags (PI like <?th 2mm>) will they be kept in the next versions of APP or just javascript will be used ?Thanks.Regards,Nicolas Delobel

Hello,I try to Add FOM Code Completion for javascript in Eclipse but I don't know where in can find Application.js, Content.js,Formatting.js and Aliases.js cited in APP's help.Someone can help me ?Thanks.Nicolas

Hi all,Trying to see if anyone in the community has experienced a similar issue... Using either Arbortext 6.0, or 6.1 [32 bit or 64 bit] latest builds, I get an [A11514] Unhandled Exception error out of the blue. There is no apparent workflow that causes this except perhaps time. It happens sometimes when starting the application up without opening any files. It always happens when open for extended amount of time. I have an open case for this but no resolution in site.Seems like a memory issue or perhaps something on my system conflicts with Arbortext.Anyone experience similar issue?

Hello every one,I am having a difficulty on Arbortext, I would like to keep the content of a table together but when I generate the PDF if the table is at the bottom of a page it splits the content. I already tried some modification on the stylesheet (keep, indivisibility) but even when I change the different levels of priority to set new rules for keeping content together, it does not change anything.Do you have any clue to solve this little issue?Thanks,

I'm currently developing a new APP template using only Javascript/FOM. In the past, we used specific counters like f or g to count page numbers or footnote references. The reason those counters come into handy is their behaviour when a page is reformatted multiple times as they still count correctly. I want to avoid using legacy functionality whenever it is possible and tried using a global JavaScript variable like template.myCounter to count footnotes throughout the formatting process. As a ordinary global variable (like 3B2 Script or Perl Variable), incrementing it during formatting, will just add up, if an element is reformatted multiple times. Therefore a page with a single footnote that is formatted 4 times, would result in template.myCounter+4 instead of +1.What would be the best practice in those situations (footnotes, page number)? Using counters with the formatting.evaluateShowString() function? Does the FOM provide any information about retries?

HI,     Can any one please help on how to store values in an external file using ACL, I have developed a dialog box window which contains combo box,drop down list, check boxes and other list variable and I want to store the assigned values to some file so that I can get and set same values when I load the document. Thanks,Prashant

I'm trying to get a macro in Arbortext Isodraw that copies the path and filename of the active document to clipboard.I've tried combinations of copy and path and StripExt but it usually ends up in copying the text as an element, instead of to the clipboard.I might try to do a text log that outputs the active doc path and filename, but it would be nice if there was an easier way!

I am attempting to access the help topics that a user might normally get via the Arbortext Editor (AE) command line however that is not possible for me; I am behind a firewall so "on-line" help is not available.I am trying to upgrade to AE 7.0 and need to track down some of the error messages I am getting.Is there a way to access the help topics on the web from this site or another location without having AE installed. I cannot use a copy outside my firewall.

Creo Illustrate没有打印预览和页面格式设置功能，没有打印预览功能，用户不能再输出前检查图和文字的位置对不对。。没有页面格式设置功能，用户不能按照需要打印说明书的大小去调整说明书内容。希望PTC公司能改进和增加这方面的功能。3DVIA Composer有这两方面的功能，这个很人性化，用户在最终打印前可以预览检查内容的排版。。

Has anyone heard anything about PTC updating the Arbortext Tools to accomodate things like making the Import Excel function work with the S1000D schemas.S1000D requires a para tag in each entry cell of a table.  Because of this the import excel function does not work properly with S1000D.  The only way around it right now, is to physically add the para tags to the data before you import, making the tool virtually useless.  It would be nice if they could rework the tool and give us an option of either milspec or S1000D functionality to choose from.

I haven't had any luck with this.