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Dear Arbortext community members,I understand that many of you have received emails from the PTC/User Community and PTC/User Technical Committee leadership regarding opportunities to submit topics for PTC Live Global. As you know, this event has grown into a global user event for product development professionals. However, at this time we aren't offering any Arbortext or other service topics at the PTC Live Global event. We continue to investigate new avenues to support that growing user community and appreciate that we have a critical gap in this regard.Following the email threads from adepters regarding this topic, we would like to connect with interested Arbortext users how PTC SLM can help support regional and virtual meetings, hosted by our regional users and partners. In addition to Arbortext, we will be moving forward with this effort for many of the expanded / acquired products within SLM, including Servigsitics and Enigma. If you are interested in helping with this initiative,

Before we upgrades to 10. I was able to remove duplicate jobs from the cad publisher. Has this been changed?

Hi folks--I have a new blog post out on XSLT 2.0. If you are interested in XSLT, but haven't made the jump to 2.0 yet, check out some of the advantages: http://www.terraxml.com/community/blog/bid/324882/Rediscover-the-Magic-of-XSLT.--Clay

Hi,What is the tracking units for letter spacing in arbortext advance publishing

Hello,While trying to compose a document with the APP engine from a Styler stylesheet, we discovered that almost every Gentext values (i.e. prefixes/suffixes) based on XML attribute values were missing from the composed output.This is strange, because everything is working perfectly when we compose the same XML document with the exact same stylesheet using both the FOSI engine and the XSL-FO engine.Even stanger, our footnote marker prefixes, generated from the same XML attribute (i.e. same "label" attribute) as every other problematic prefixes mentioned above, appear correctly and as expected in the resulting PDF, even when we use the APP engine to compose...I don't know what to do at that point: I expected Styler to behave at least in a similar fashion when using the 3 different composition engines with the same stylesheet (unless, of course, trying to use a "language-specific" feature such as "run-in with previous/next" with anything other than the FOSI engine).But this is not by any

Hello all.Can anyone give me a quick answer for this? It is an emergency.We use "Arbortext Editro with Styler" to make data and "Arbortext Content Manager" to manage it.We created a DITA bookmap with a lot of DITA topics hanging from it and put it in ACM.But it is very difficult to look for the data we want in the bookmap by using ACM screen because the "file name" shown in DITAmap (ex: x-wc//8888888888888.xml) and the "name" shown in the browser (this browser means the one you open from Arbortext Editor-> Object).So I think it will be easiler to find a file I want on the browser if the file name in the bookmap and "Name" in the browser are same. Or the value of the element's attribute whose name is same as "Name".Is it possible to show in bookmap view "Name", or any other information, such as an attribute which can show the same letters as "Names" .Your advice is highly appreciated.Thank you very much in advance.Kind regards,tomomi

Hello,I am generating point pages via the provision of wrapping a desired range of elements within a PI ("_touchup") element and firing the point page pageset but I am having difficulties in scoping the variable to which I save the final point page in each range to to populate the LEP.Is this the best method for incorporating point page capability into an application ?

I've been using IsoDraw 3 to 4 yrs now, and I've put up with this problem and feel it is probably just an IsoDraw quirk. It concerns picking and editing element points, it seems depending on the element point position withing all the other elements it can be very difficult to pick on a point and move it or even to pick it at all. If the object is filled it is impossible to pick certain points within the object until you turn the fill off.Anyone else having that problem, or is it just me.Could it be the higher resolutions we are using now, the points seem small on screen and I feel the program will not let me zoom in tight enough a lot of times.ThanksTReeves

Adepters:In our primary publishing environment, we’re using XML source and generating PDFs using PE 5.3 and the direct-to-PDF process. I know exactly how to control the PDF bookmarks using the atidmd namespace and markup in the FOSI and XML source file. Now, I’m needing to generate a PDF from a legacy SGML book and so far I’m able to use the direct-to-PDF process to generate a nice PDF. However, I’m getting the default PDF bookmark setup wherein the bookmark TOC is not displayed at startup and when displayed, everything is expanded. Is it possible to use the atidmd markup in an SGML document sent to PE? I’ve dug into the Arbortext help to no avail. I would think there would need to be an SGML DTD fragment for that markup. Or are there other tricks?Any help or advice is appreciated.Dave HintzSiemens

The Arbortext help says it can be done using commands like magbase 1000 in Arbortext's pubview.cf file or by making a docname.vcf in the doctypes directory of the document you want to customize the window for. I have tried everything I can think of (editing the local Arbortext pubview.cf, editing the PE Server's pubview.cf, making the docname.vcf files everywhere I can think of, all to no avail. Has anyone ever done this and had it work or should I contact PTC support? Thanks for any help anyone can give.

I have a English DITA map that I have had translated into multiple languages. What are some ways in Arbortext and PDMLink that I can associate the translated DITA maps and topics with the English?

Looking for guidance as to what I need to send.ThanksBryon

I am an Arbortext user and have NO OTHER dealings with any other PTCproducts. Your survey, like your 'Universal' conference is so skewed ithurts. Lynn

Adepters:After nearly 40 years in the publishing industry, I'm retiring in January. I've been involved with Arbortext since the early 90s using Adept 5.0.2 to generate PostScript, followed by authoring with Adept Editor 5.2.Here's a link to the job posting for my position:Dave HintzSiemens

Hi everyone,does anyone have any experience with this event?I´m currently trying to catch the moment just after a connection is made. This seems to be the right event fot that purpose. Does´nt work out too well, though.The event just doesn´t seem to occur. Following is a code-snippet which should handle the event:Application.addEventListener("ApplicationLoad", new EventListener() { public void handleEvent(final Event event) { if(event instanceof CMSAdapterConnectEvent){ System.out.println("Here we go"); } }},true);Thanks for any clue in advanceDaniel

Hi,I created an account for downloading Arbortext Editor free trial version on 19th july and requested for the evaluation license key but still havent received the key.Can someone please help me withi this ?Thanks,

I have an old FOSI that we use for our MILSTD development output. One day,if we get the approval, I'll migrate it to FO, but for now it produces whatwe want. Any doubts, checkout MIL-HDBK-2361C(Attribute Value (ENUMERATED) of the attribute in the document instanceagainst which the <specval> testsWARNINGSkipping <att> because it has one or more invalid <specval> or <fillval>elementsWARNINGThe value of this < attval="3"> does not conform to the Declared AttributeValue (ENUMERATED) of the attribute in the document instance against whichthe <specval> testsWARNINGSkipping <att> because it has one or more invalid <specval> or <fillval>elementsThe problem is there are NO <specval> elements with an 'attval' or either"2" or "3". In fact,there are no "attval's" with a "2" or "3" in the FOST atall, specval or fillval. Has anyone else ever seen an error like this? Other than bugging me, theyhave no impact on the output, either on screen o

We have some issues where the style sheet can fit the heading and three lines of text on the bottom of the page instead of pushing it to the next page so the topic makes more sense. How and where can I adjust this?Bryon

We are moving to importing dxf files into Isodraw for line drawings. Is there a way that I can specify that a text layer in the dxf gets imported onto a layer labeled text in my IsoDraw template? or does this need to be done via a macro after the dxf has been placed in the file?ThanksBryon

Hello everyone,I'm new with ACL, so, I'm not sure if it's possible to copy/paste fragment without let the dialog "specify top level element" appear?My example is that I have:<chapter> <section> <child>1...</child> </section> <section> <child>2...</child> </section> <copied> .... </copied></chapter>Currently if I copy the first two sections and paste it into <copied></copied>, it will show a "Specify top level element" dialog which asks for the top level element. What I would like to have is that it allows to copy/paste 2 sections (without outermost element). Is that any way I can do it using ACL?I use a hook to catch on 'paste' event in ACL: doc_add_callback(current_doc(), 'paste', 'my_paste_handler')I appreciate for any help!Thao Nguyen

Hello all,I have here a very complecated question. Is it possible to make a set of tags to look in a different order?Please have a look at the exapmle below.Example:<Tag A> contains texts.<Tag B> contains an image.---------------------a part of xml document----------------<Parent Tag> <Tag A> Apples are red. </Tag A> <Tag B>[image of apples] </Tag B></Parent Tag><Parent Tag> <Tag A> Oranges are orange.</Tag A> <Tag B> [image of oranges] </Tag B></Parent Tag>----------------------------------------------------------------------I want to make the appearance of this set of tags like below.----------------a part of xml document---------------------<Parent Tag> <Tag A> Apples are red. </Tag A> <Tag A> Oranges are orange.</Tag A></Parent><Parent Tag> <Tag B> [image of apples] </Tag B> <Tag B> [image of oranges] </Tag B></Parent Tag>--

Wondering if anyone has worked with images in XUI.Specifically, I have a listbox with a list of image titles, and whenclicked, I want them to show below in a little preview window.The problem I'm having is that my XUI is setup so that all of my toolsetsare contained within a <box>. Looking at the API, it seems that<imagegroup> needs to be a child of <window>, which seems odd.I also see <picturebox> that can take a ref, but I'm not sure if thatsomehow means I need to create the <imagegroup><image> on the main window(evidently hidden?), then reference it from the picturebox?I'm able to do this pretty easily within the editor window by modifying mydcf as follows:<graphic element="vectorimage" entity="entityref" filename="fileref"/">Then in the XML, I can insert a tag such as:<vectorimage db_id="1" fileref="<br"/>The main kicker is that the image is dynamically created by a service,based upon a passed-in ID. This works fine in the edit

What are the plans, if any, for Arbortext technical presentations by PTC,partners, and customers? Last year there were none and the Serviceconference where the only Arbortext material was presented, was nottechnical.

I am tring to profile a procgroup, the profiles window comes up, but when I add the element it says could not apply profile since the affected element does not support a "product" attribute. How do I correct this? Where do I need to look? Is it in stlyer or is that a settign that I need to modify in the profiling.pcf. I am not aware that changes where made to allow other elements to be profiled. ThanksBryon