SLM (Service)

Here is another of one of those hopefully useful scripts. I cannot takecredit for writing this one, I got it from Arbortext back when the softwarewas still called Adept. 😄 I thank Paul (and I forget his last name, who passed several years ago fromLou Gehrig's disease). This script will run in an open file that has a DTD or schema and identifyANY unused elements. You say the parser does this right, well partially itdoes. The parser will identify any elements in a content model that have notbeen declared (e.g., but is not declared). Thisscript will do the opposite, identifying any elements that are declared butnot used. Lynn

Dear All,I'm a ordinary technology writer from China, using Arbortext 6.0, I publish the PDF and Webhelp using file(F)-pubilsh(B)-PDF(B) and file(F)-pubilsh(B)-Web(W), and find some questions. My English is not good, and using the Chinese Version, when I reading the Help Documents, I feeling curiously weak and faint And I find it's very hard to find something using Chinese about Arbortext Editor and Style... The following is my quesions:1.The picture and text in table. I publish the PDF is good, but the Web html is not OK. Can I using some control, when I using one topic, publish good PDF and good Web html? Using Arbortext Style? How? 2.I publish the PDF and Webhelp using file(F)-pubilsh(B)-PDF(B), I can see the publish engine is APP. But it's strange that when I change a .style file, the publish engine is changed to FOSI. Why? can I choose it? I see the help document said the APP can't support Web, but I can publish the Web, although the format is not good... I use file(F)-pubilsh(B

Trying to figure out what type of file to use in our tech manuals. We will be using a 3d product model to generate images but our publushed tech manual (.pdf) will not be interactive (all images will publish as 2d, hopefully .tiffs). I want to be able to edit and update the graphics via creo illustrate throughout production but have no 3d interaction within the finished manual. Which file format do I want to generate from creo?

Oi, É possível fazer a simulação magnético com Creo Elements? Se sim, onde encontro material didático? Grato.

Is the a DTD out there for a Operational Supplement? We have an unusual requirement for a full COTS document to be imported into Arbortext as a supplement to a TO.I have minipulated the MIL-STD-38784 DTD to accommodate almost everything but I'm having an issue with getting the Header and Footers to accommodate me with "OPERATIONAL SUPPLEMENT". Can anyone give me some pointers?Thank you,Cindy Lake

I have exported an illustration to CGM using the S1000D V2.3 option as per the customer's specification.They have rejected it because the metafile states "ColourClass=monochrome"It should be "ColourClass=color"How do I change this?

I have a multitude of graphics in which the filename (i.e. "drawing1.cgm, drawing2.cgm, etc) needs to be added within the image area of the graphic. Can a macro be created to specifically target each file in the location they reside, copy the filename, open the graphic and paste into the graphic window?I can make a macro to "singly" do that task to one file...but now sure how to have it continuously go thru the files in a consecutive order.Thanks

Hi,I am using the ArborText Editor (v. 5.4) startup command to print my XML documents to PostScript files.This process uses our standard Editor FOSI. I would like touse certain FOSI features like"keeps" to control the breaking ofelements over page boundaries. Will this work using my Editor FOSI?Thanks,John

Available for immediate downloading from PTC's support site is the 6.1 M030 release.Some highlights include:New RDS format to support styling and publishing of DITA documentsStyler:For Arbortext Editor/Styler/ArchitectFor SPR Fixes in the releaseIf you have any questions about the release schedule, please reference the PTC Product Calendar at:http://www.ptc.com/cs/product_calendar/PTC_Product_Calendar.htmPushpinder Toor, SLM Solution Manager

We currently are storing our graphic files on a seperate network as a repository. We have had issues with the network, where it might be down but our Composer is still composing. The result is not graphics in the PDF. We also have to change our network mapping daily, because the server has be replaced and points elsewhere. Is there a place in Arbortext Editior for such a repository?

Hi guys,we are creating a xui-window with acl on the fly if the user clicks on a button. The content of the xui window is a listbox with listitems.Now we want to dock the xui-window to the bottom of the Arbortext Editor window. We are doing this with enabledocking="any" and dock="bottom". So far this is the desired behaviour. But if the user clicks again on the button, we get errors from acl with the function window_show() Argument #1 "no valid window-id". Probably the reason for this is that we try to open again a xui-window until the other xui is opened. Therefore our question: How we can reload the xui-window correctly (e.g. with acl?) Or is there any other better way with javascript to do that?Thank you in advance for your help.

Hello - this is my first time here, so I hope it is okay for me to ask a question regarding the Arbortext editor.I am an end user and have just found out that I can map my own keyboard shortcuts through the command line. My coworkers and I are thrilled that we can do this and use the editor in a more personal adjusted way. But I don't think we can save the shortcuts locally - I haven't figured out how anyway, and it's propably a good thing that we can't override what our system administrator has set.My question is - are there any way of running more than one command at a time?Eg. I have made these (and more): map F10 insert_tag NRmap ctrl+d delete_tagmap ctrl+shift+T insert_tag TXTand I copy/paste them in the Command line each time I start Arbortext editor. Do you know of any easier way?Thanks 🙂Betina

We have a script that automatically adds the index tag to our parts catalog. I want to take it one step futher and would like to add a profile to the index element. In the acl script it has an entryinsert_tag(indexterm)What do I need to add to this to add a profile entry under the otherprops heading?ThanskBryon

Using acl scripting in Arbortext Editor 6, How can an sgml file be opened and then save it as xml?The doc_open method below returns a document identifier.Providing this document identifier to the doc_save function saves an empty xml file.Sample ACL Code:#Open a sgml file#0x200 - Open the document without loading a stylesheet.$sgml_doc = doc_open("file.sgml", 0x200)#save as xml#0x0020 - Write the document as an XML documentdoc_save($sgml_doc, 0x0020, "file.xml")What should be done differently?

Recently we've been experiencing some issues when bursting an Editor document into Windchill. Apparently, special characters such as ':,>' etc. are not allowed within Windchill object names. So I've found the following Xpath code (to be inserted in the burst configuration naming rules) which should be able to substitute any special characters when names are generated: <namerule elementname="map" rule="xpath" nameexpression="translate(title/@outputclass,' \*:()|<>%.?/"'',' ')"/>I cannot however get it to work. If anyone is familiar with Xpath syntax, could you please provide an example of how this code would look when using it to substitute characters in chapter object names? I suspect the issue lies with the 'title/@outputclass' part of the code, since I have tried for example 'title/chapter' and many other variations with no luck...

How would one checkthe value of apreference setting with ACL? I assume there is some kind of prefix required.For example, I want to know whether peservices is on or off andmessage peservicesdoesn't work.

Hi, We used to work with MsWord where we used "highlight text fucntionality" to identify the paragraph, sentence that need to be modified or reviewed later on.But as we moved to Arbortext, authors are finding it impossible to markup/highlight text that are not finalised.Is there a similar function in Arbortext we could use to identify text within an element (e.g <para>) as "not final".Is there a way to highlght text in Arbortext?This could be a great help and reduce intermediate authoring in word only to be copied to Arbortext later on.Thanks, Edwin

Hiya,Has anyone had any success populating the advanced metadata (documentproperties) in PDFs?I am able to set: Title Author Subject KeywordsI can't set: Author Title Description Writer Copyright Status Copyright Notice Copyright Info URLI'm mostly interested in the last three.(If you search the archives for atidmd you will probably see a discussionin which Susanne shared part of her book that relates to this, but like thePTC documentation, those advanced properties are not addressed.)I don't know what the correct Key names are for them. They don't workas-is. Removing the space or replacing it with an underscore doesn't work.Replacing it with %20 crashes the formatting engine (whee haw!).-- Paul Nagai

Hi,I am using the 4.4 M080 print services and I noticed that on page 1 of a Data Module the Table of Contents lists the paras 1, 2, 3, 3.2, 3.2 and then stops. There are a couple of figures after para 3.2 and then the text content resumes. There should be entries for 4 through 5.4.3 since the data module contains more content. Does anyone have a quick fix for this?Greg

Hi,Ok I updated the AAD Print Services stylesheets to 4.4 M090 (14099). The extra white pages which appeared at the end of Data Modules have disappeared. However my Table of Content issues have changed.In 4.3 M060 and 4.4 M080 I got a partial Toc in each Data Module. Some of the titles of levelledPara were listed, after which the remainder did not appear in the Toc. Now the situation is somewhat worse as "References" and "Description" appear in the Toc of a Data Module[cid:image001.png@01CFB092.0A97AD60]Is this by design? I have 14 tables and 18 Figures listed from the Data Module, information code 030, but none of the titles for levelledPara show up. I think they should.Greg

foTable.xsl still does not contain picas and the translate portion is still missing a conversion statement. Without this statement the column widths for tables with measurements in picas are incorrect in the output. I added the following pica related code in two tests:<xsl:when test="(contains(@colwidth,'*')" or=" not(contains(@colwidth,'*')))=" and=" not(contains(@colwidth,'cm')=" or=" contains(@colwidth,'cm')=" or=" contains(@colwidth,'mm')=" or=" contains(@colwidth,'mm')=" or=" contains(@colwidth,'pi')=" or=" contains(@colwidth,'pi')<br="/>And this to the coversion template:<xsl:template name="T_ConvertToMilliMetres"> <xsl:param name="pValue"/"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="contains($pValue," 'mm')=" or=" contains($pvalue,=" 'mm')"="> <xsl:value-of select="number(translate($pValue,'mmMM',''))"/"> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="contains($pValue," 'pi')=" or=" contains($pvalue,=" 'pi')"="> <xsl:value-of select="round

foTable.xsl still does not contain picas and the translate portion is still missing a conversion statement. Without this statement the column widths for tables with measurements in picas are incorrect in the output. I added the following pica related code in two tests:<xsl:when test="(contains(@colwidth,'*') or not(contains(@colwidth,'*'))) and not(contains(@colwidth,'cm') or contains(@colwidth,'CM') or contains(@colwidth,'mm') or contains(@colwidth,'MM') or contains(@colwidth,'pi') or contains(@colwidth,'PI') And this to the coversion template:<xsl:template name="T_ConvertToMilliMetres"> <xsl:param name="pValue"/> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="contains($pValue, 'mm') or contains($pValue, 'MM')"> <xsl:value-of select="number(translate($pValue,'mmMM',''))"/> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="contains($pValue, 'pi') or contains($pValue, 'PI')"> <xsl:value-of select="round(number(translate($pValue,'piPI','') * 4.2175176))"/> </xsl:when>

Hi,I am using the 4.4 M080 print services and I noticed that on page 1 of a Data Module the Table of Contents lists the paras 1, 2, 3, 3.2, 3.2 and then stops. There are a couple of figures after para 3.2 and then the text content resumes. There should be entries for 4 through 5.4.3 since the data module contains more content. Does anyone have a quick fix for this?Greg

Hi,If one of our XML files, 123456.xml, contains change-tracking markup, we write a copy of the file, 123456.xml.redline, and then accept all of the changes to the file before further processing and placing the file in a watch folder to be picked up by our typesetting system. After that is done we want to restore the version of the file that contains the change-tracking markup. For many years using the Unix version of Arbortext Editor (or its predecessors), we would copy 123456.xml.redline to 123456.xml and the edit -current to open the file with change-tracking in the open editing window. Now that we have switched to Windows (running v6.1 M010), after issuing the edit -current command, the file (123456.xml) does not display the change-tracking markup. However, if I open 123456.xml in an ASCII text editor, I do see the change-tracking markup in the file. In order for the change-tracking markup to be visible again, I have to completely exit and re-start Arbortext Editor and re-open 1234

Arbortext 6.0. We are using and SGML DTD with Arbortext 6.0 M080. Our writers use the id and xref combination for referencing.When they click on attributed icon to bring up the attributes, they click on the autogenerate ID icon (looks like a firecracker we think) it generate a tag that is the first 35 character of the text and an ASCII value. Probelm is the text is in camel case (first letter of each word is Uppercase with no spaces). When they then use xref and select the reference, the text key is all lower case. It works ok in the composer/APE, but we use the data for creating ourown HTML and links do not agree. Is there a way to set the text to all lower case for the ID or to make REFID keep the text the same as the ID. Or is there a way to just generate the ascii number and not use the text.