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Hi Everybody!I'm having problems adjusting the main content as page region in FOSI. Where can I change in code to adjust page contents(main content)?

Hi Experts,1) We are facing some issue while calling java class from ACL. From one of the menu item of Custom menu we are calling Java class but we getting error message like a) [A30134] Can not find the java class com.XXX.XXX.XXX..b) [A30133] No Java class for the object could be found.2) We provided our all classes in custom/classes folder and mentioned all the jar files in the classpath variable. But still problem is existing.Environment details:Arbortext editor 6.0 M010Arbortext PE 6.0 M010Could you please help us.

Greeting Adepters,This post is asking for a little more detailed information about Editor's inner workings than we usually see here, but like the saying goes, "If you don't ask, you don't get."We have created an application which uses PTC Arbortext Editor for editing of XML documents. It initiates a document editing session and is notified of any save action by means of DocumentSaving event. We have Editor customizations that perform a set of data extraction and persistence operations that are executed as part of any document save request. The main application listens for the DocumentSaving event to refresh itself according to the current document state and the extracted data.We have run into a sequencing issue related to the invocation of DocumentSaving event and the execution of our Editor save customization. When a save request is made by the user, Arbortext Editor will immediately raise the DocumentSaving event. Our save customizations do not get executed until after the event hand

AdeptersI have never found an adequate description of the various output types that can be produced via Styler. Can you tell me what Styler's specific output capabilities (e.g., online help, hard-copy print, interactive PDF, etc.) are available?John T GrovesW R Systems, LTD.2500 Almeda AveSuite 214Norfolk, VA 23513-2403e-mail jgroves@wrsystems.com<">mailto:jgroves@wrsystems.com>Ph. 757.858.6000 ext 442

PTC Arbortext 6.1 M050 is now available for general customer download. Please refer to the following Reference docs for details on what is addressed.Editor/Styler/Architect Release NotesSPR FixesThank you-

Hello everyone,I have been trying to figure out the existence of any cell merge/split feature in Epic. However, I do not see any such option available in the tool or in any of its supporting documentation. Can someone please guide on Epic's support for such feature (which I am guessing there should be, as Epic is believed to have all the MS Word abilities mapped into its environment).I have come across another forum thread which states the below navigation for spanning/unspanning table cells:TABLE--> SPAN CELLS (ALT + F11)TABLE--> UNSPAN CELLS (ALT + SHIFT+ F11)However, none of the above seem to be enabled on my editor. I do not see them appear in my table menu bar options either.Please guide whether it's possible to perform these operations on a table and if yes, how?Thanks in advance,Pooja

Hi,   I've been using IsoView 7.3 as an Internet Explorer plug-in to view CGM, TIF, etc. images.   I found on IsoView datasheet that it also supports pvz file format. So I included a pvz animation on a webpage, but IsoView only shows an empty frame.   The TIF images display properly on this same page, though. Please see the two screenshots.   Any help will be much appreciated!     Viewing TIF:   Attempting to view PVZ:  

Hi Experts,I am using Arbortext Editor along with Publishing Engine . My requirement is when I upload document in windchill all the topics goes in topic folder, concepts in concept folder and so on in windchill. I am not able to do so can you guys help.Thanks in advance

The PTC SLM Solution Management Team invites you to our upcoming PTC Technical Information Solutions User Community Webcast Series!Starting tomorrow, we are hosting a monthly webcast to keep you and other customers informed on the latest solution roadmaps, tips & tricks and best practices. On Wednesday February 18, from 11-12pm EST we have our first webcast: “What’s New in Creo Illustrate 3.0 M030.”We welcome your feedback on other topic areas you would be interested in. Please send me any suggestions. Current considerations include:• Styler/APP Tips and Tricks• Aerospace & Defense solution update• Arbortext update• Information delivery best practicesWe look forward to hearing from you.Thank you,SusanSusan FortSolution Manager

Hello,I'm wondering if it's possible to highlight the text between two change elments in Styler?Example: <para>The quick brown fox <revst/>jumps over the<revend/> lazy dog.</para>I want to set a highlight color on the text between the <revst/> and <revend/> elments. Is this possible in Styler? Maybe using FOSI? Any help would be greatly appreciated.Thanks, Lisa

Hi allI would like to get the Arbortext Isoview Internet Explorer Addon auto enabled.Today in the version that we have 7.3 the ocx (addon), this file is on our local disk after installation (C:\Program Files (x86)\PTC\PTC Arbortext IsoView 7.3).I can´t find the codebase for adding this by the url from ptc.How do I get an Group Policy to do that?//Andreas

FWIW: At this point, I think standard versus proprietary is a red herring. Things are just not that clear-cut.FOSI is both a standard and proprietary. Same for XSL-FO. APP is proprietary, except for the JavaScript part. Adobe PostScript and PDF are proprietary languages that are de facto standards.Standards are great, but I think what matters most is stuff like cheaper,faster,easier,more productive, better quality, etc.Suzanne Napoleonwww.FOSIexpert.com"WYSIWYG is last-century technology!"

- Just a few years ago, APP was an interactive, template-based product that utilized processing instructions. By comparison, FOSI/TeX's successful track record of top speed, top quality, database-driven, "lights-out"batch publishing of SGML/XML documents in multiple languages is entering itsthird decade. - SPR Fixes for Arbortext Editor 6.1 (through M040) lists 10 bugfixes related to FOSI/TeX, none of them involving software crashes. On the other hand, approximately 135publishing bugfixes specifically related to APP are listed.In addition, the release notesfor APP 11.0 (through M070) list approximately 250 bugfixes. It is not clear how much overlap exists between the two documents. In any case, at least 250 APP-related bugfixes were reported, with many involving unexpected termination of the software. That's >250 compared to 10. The numbers speak for themselves. FOSI/TeX has the reliability and stability that organizations require. APP does not. - SPR Fixesfor 6.1 Styler (throug

My mistake. My recollection is that CJK support was added to FOSI/TeX early on (first editing, then composition), followed by Arabic and Hebrew.According to current documentation, Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai are supported in the Edit window, which of course is formatted by FOSI/TeX. I was under the impression that support for formatted output had been added, as with CJK. I wonder why not.My apologies for the confusion!Suzanne

Hello! I'm bursting dita maps into Windchill, I'm not experienced enough in Xpath I made some bursting rules which put each XML Topic together with related Images into a folder named same as first 20 characters of the Title of that topic/task (I based on http://communities.ptc.com/thread/58544 thread).For example: if I upload some DITA map containing topicref link to topic with a title "Why bursting is good for you", so there will be the folder "/Topics/Why bursting is goo/" crated in my WC context and also XML and related images will be placed in this folder.What I wish to do... I would like that my "Topics" folder(which has a static name now) where my generared subfolders for each topic are located would be named like a Title in whole map. So each topic would be bursted to WC CONTEXT HOME/MapTitle/TopicTitle/Topic.xmlThe problem is that i guess I need to add some string that gets the Title in Map to topic's location rules, but that title is in another file... No idea how do it. I hav

Please pass it along: FOSI DOES support right-to-left languages. In fact,I found information online that supports my recollection that CJK composition was supported fairly early on.Paul Grosso posted in 1999 that composed output of CJK was available with Adept 8.1/Global (for UNIX). PC support for composed output of CJK was available inEpic 4.3, which was releasedin 2002. According tothe release notes:"Epic Editor now composes to print, Preview, and PDF documents that are writtenin Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean."You can search the Help Center for Arabic, etc., to see other right-to-left languages are also supported by FOSI.Note that I developed a FOSI for Arabic output in 2006 and worked on a CJK FOSI a few years before that.Suzanne Napoleonwww.FOSIexpert.com"WYSIWYG is last-century technology!"

Hello everyone,I'm facing a problem since some weeks ago and I would like to know if anybody could provideme with more information about it, so, what I'm doing is, in some docbooks I'm selecting, removing, modifying and re-inserting the modified content, however I saw that in some cases when I cut sections from my docbook which corresponds to the last section in th list, let's say for example that I have:<section>1</section> <section> 2.1</section><section>2.2</section> <section>3</section>And I'm gonna suppose that I want to modify the section 2.2, so I select the section, modify its content according to my necessities and then delete that content and re-insert in the same position my new content, what I'm getting is the following...<section 1=" ...="><section>2</section>I don't unserstand why is this happening, I talked with some people in my team and they told me this has nothing to see with the stylesheets, so I'm gu

Bonjour,Suite à un passage de Epic Version 4.3 --> ArborText version 6.0Nous rencontrons un problème avec des fichiers contenant des fragments (appel entitée de fichier) en sgml, perte de '<?Pub CX...>' après sauvegarde du fichier englobant.Y-a-t-il une solution à ce problème pour conserver le contexte ?Tétière premier fichier :<!-- Fragment document type declaration subset:ArborText, Inc., 1988-2011, v.4002<!DOCTYPE CODE PUBLIC "-//...//DTD ....//FR" [<!ENTITY chap2 SYSTEM ".....">]>-->texte...... &chap2; ............texte...------------------------------------------------Tétière deuxième fichier (chap2) :<!-- Fragment document type declaration subset:ArborText, Inc., 1988-2011, v.4002<!DOCTYPE CODE PUBLIC "-//...//DTD ....//FR">--><?Pub CX code(...(...(>Merci de votre aide

1. Content from my emails can be found atFOSI and APP comparison. 2.I am not saying FOSI is non-proprietary or open source. I am saying it was ahead of its time. Markup languages that came later were able to achieve more in that regard. BTW: The Air Force gives aDataLogics print FOSIalong with anArbortext authoring FOSIto subcontractors.3.If PTC Arbortext offered FOSI training courses as in the past and included FOSI stylesheets and samples with the product as in the past, and if PTC User held annual user conferences for Arbortext Editor as in the past, FOSI would have a much higher profile.4.My information about formatting speeds and performance issues comes directly from PTC Arbortext's documentation. Specifically, the Help Center had this to say about formatting speeds in 6.0 (released in February 2011):"In version 6.0 the FOSI engine is somewhat faster than APP, though we expect to close that gap over time. XSL-FO is significantly slower, and that is unlikely to change."Three-and-a

The advent of electronic media and particularly the Web has profoundly changed how people seek and use information. Information seeking today is dominated by search, and not by search of individual works, but search of the whole: whole sites, whole doc sets, and, in particular, the whole Web. With search, and with hypertext systems, you don’t start at the top and work down, you dive to the bottom and work your way up or sideways. Despite these changes, much tech comm content is still organized top down and written to be read top down. But content organized top down does not work well for readers navigating from the bottom up. To serve them well, we need a bottom-up information architecture.We have thousands of years of civilization based on organizing information top-down. It is ingrained in our education and our culture, and in our processes and the way we create and manage content. Moving to a bottom-up information architecture is no trivial task, therefore. This first session in the

Does anyone have any thoughts about generating style specifications from an existing FOSI? We have original specifications for our FOSI but they were not maintained as the FOSI was modified, so it would be nice to be able to auto generate a spec doc from what actually exists. A fosi for fosi perhaps.Steve

Just as an FYI for those interested. I filed a bug report with PTC on my Epic not printing EPS graphics in myPDF. Using only print composer with Epic 6.1 M010. PTC did duplicate the problem in M010 but when they tested with M020 (to bereleased later this month), things were working again. So if you are using Epic Editor 6.1 M010 and publishing to PDF with printcomposer with EPS graphics, you may have a problem. I'll let you know ifM020 fixes the problem for me when it is released. Lynn

TWO COLUMN LAYOUTNOTE: Two-column output is coded as unbalanced, butin APP Styler output,the first page of Chapter 5 and the first page of Chapter 6 have balanced columns. The other chapters are unbalanced. Output from the Styler-generated FOSI is correctly unbalanced throughout.HYPENATED, RAGGED RIGHTAPP Styler hyph rr 2-col.pdf(fixed word spacing)has~77 hyphenations. The following paragraph in Chapter 1 suggeststhat hyphenation is set to a maximum of two successive lines. Otherwise, it seemsthe word "software" on the fourth linewould have been hyphenated. As it is, the third line is left noticeably short.Two paragraphs down on the same page, notice the incorrect hyphenation of "cour-seware":APP Styler hyph rr wordsp 2-col.style(variable word spacing)has~32 hyphenations, including three successive lines of hyphenation, which suggest the setting may not be two lines. However, the hyphen in "web-based" is authored, which perhaps makes a difference.The output also includes incorrect hyph

Hi,Can I use Security Description Characteristics in Styler by means of FOSI source? Why when I insert <secdesc> element in Styler (Tools - Advanced Edited Source - Edit FOSI Resource Description), the element disappeared? Is some way how to use security level in Styler?RichK