Arbortext AAD, dmRef ouput missing spaces in PDF output

February 12, 2014, 5:49 am

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I noticed that in the AAD S1000D PDF output (Editor 5.3, CSDB 4.3 M060) the dmRef outputs a data module code and there is a missing space between the end of the DMC and the <techname> and also between the <techname> and infoName, so you get something like "STUF-A-34-52-01-00A-300A-DWidget Part No. 007Examination tests and checks" when it should be "STUF-A-34-52-01-00A-300A-D Widget Part No. 007 Examination tests and checks ".

 

DMC: STUF-A-34-52-01-00A-300A-D

techName: Widget Part No. 007

infoName: Examination tests and checks

 

I noticed that the PDF file does not have a dash between the techName and infoName elements and when I search for infoName for example in the stylesheets I cannot find an example that doesn't have a dash, for example the following code from foRevSegDatamodule.xsl inserts a dash between the techname and infoname elements:

 

       &#160;<xsl:value-of select="techname"/>&#160;-&#160;<xsl:value-of select="infoname"/>

 

Also, I can't help but notice that the stylesheet case does not match the element names so we have "techname" and "infoname" above instead of the camel case.

 

I can't find a rule without a dash, since there is no rule which matches the markup in this context, therefore the text within the <dmRefAddressItems> markup is rendered as it is, which turns out to be, no spaces. This is the same problem I think as my previous issue with superscript, the markup is there but there was no rule to match, so the character data was simply output as it was.

 

Since it needs a template match, I put a new xsl:template match at the end of foPara.xsl, and I changed the element names to camel case, "dmTitle", "techName", "infoName". I also modified some of the non breaking spaces "&#160;" to plain spaces "&#32;" as this is used in the context of a paragraph. Here is the code:

 

    <!-- ===================================================================== -->

    <!--L3 Modification to include a template match for techName and infoName -->

    <xsl:template match="dmTitle">

            &#160;<xsl:value-of select="techName"/>&#32;-&#32;<xsl:value-of select="infoName"/>

    </xsl:template>

    <!--End L3 Modification-->

    <!-- ===================================================================== --> </xsl:stylesheet><!--this is the last tag of the stylesheet-->

 

It works.

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Is anyone using Isodraw 7.3 to highlight a line with a mouseover or click? If so what might that technique be?

 

I grouped a set of lines in a schematic, applied a hotspot to the line, and when I enable the hotspots, and view within IsoDraw using IsoView I don't get much in the way of an indication. Lets say one clicks on the line, it flashes briefly and that's it.

 

Animation doesn't seem to apply because I am not moviing or rotating the line. Also, the imported CAD dwg file does not have any ids for the lines that are imported. Should there be?

 

Is there any way to get the line to highlight and stay highlighed?

 

My thought is to export this to WebCGM later.

How do I make section titles run-in/inline in axdocbook?

February 6, 2014, 10:27 am

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I am attempting to customize the stylesheet for axdocbook for delivering a MIL-STD technical bulletin.

 

The sect1-sect 5 titles need to appear as follows:

 

1.1 Section Title. First para element's content.

 

In Styler, no matter what modifications I made to the para or title elements, the para will not render on the same line as the title. Even as an inline structure type.

 

Does anyone have an suggestions for what I can try to make these section titles run-in or inline in Styler being output to pdf?

Converting Photos to line drawings?

January 31, 2008, 11:50 am

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Is it at all possible to convert a digital photograph into a line drawing within IsoDraw -- or is there a tool out there that can be used with IsoDraw to generate a line drawing from a digital photograph? My company is wondering if the only option is photo tracing - which is very time consuming for our illustrator. Thanks for any advice.

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February 14, 2014, 1:50 am

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Hi,

 

I want turn off pretty print option. Is it possible?

 

Thanks in Advance,

Balaji. M

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February 14, 2014, 6:19 am

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Hi all,

 

I'm doing a custom index using the APP. In this index, I need to display the titles, some element's attribute and the respective pages. For this, I'm getting this informations on the element's and save in a 'application.variables'. The problem is that the index I'm doing, is render before I do it. Is there anyway for I use the informations I've saved to update the index?

fxNode

February 14, 2014, 7:56 am

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Has anyone ever used the fxNode? Some knows how to use it, or has any document about it?

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February 17, 2014, 3:05 am

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We are making documentation for our products using Arbortext for Aerospace & Defence. If I Create a Build List in Arbortext Publisher I get a browser window telling me what data modules have been changed w.r.t. the previous published issue.

 

Data modules in my delivered publication may change because they are changed for deliveries (other publications) to other customers. If my publications are in the DELIVERED state, there is no easy way to see if I have to supply my customer with updated publications. If I want to use the Create Build List to see if any data module has been changed, I have to raise the issue of the publication first. If I do so, the result can be that there is no need to send an update, leaving the publication in the PENDING state. I do not like that.

 

There should be an option in the Publisher to see that data modules in a publication have been changed without the necessity to raise the issue of the publication or do I oversee any other possibility to track changed data modules in publications, other than tracking them by hand?

 

Jan

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Generated Text not displaying

February 13, 2014, 2:42 am

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We are facing an unusual issue, we have FOSI for showing generated text. It is working fine when we are updating existing tags, however, when we insert new tags then we are not able to see the generated text corresponding to those new tags. Also, we have observed that after inserting new tags, if we delete some text in some other tag and then undo (Ctrl+Z), we are able to see the generated text for the newly inserted tags.

 

We have gentextautoupdate as "full" and gentextautoupdate as "on". Please advise.

IsoView incorrectly says it is unlicensed

February 17, 2014, 4:16 am

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Hello, we distribute our software with IsoView 7.0 (for reasons too in depth to go into, distributing a later version is not an option currently, nor is making installation optional). We have a customer that has Arbortext Editor 6 which fails is IsoView 7.0 is active on their machines. They have found they can get it back working by running Regsvr32 on their IsoViewX73.ocx but when they run our software IsoView always shows the text "UNLICENSED Arbortext Isoview".

 

What can we do to

 

A. fix up this customer's issue?

B. prevent graphics in our software saying they are unlicenced when the customer upgrades to a later version of IsoView?

 

thanks in advance

 

Dave

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February 18, 2014, 8:49 am

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Hi all,

 

How can I use a global variable in the APP, for transfer an information from OnEnter to OnExit function?( I need to used any type of information, and not just string).

IsoDraw macro issue - help!

February 16, 2014, 2:34 pm

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Hey up everyone - I'm hoping someone may be able to shed some light on a couple of problems I've run into...

1.  I"m trying to develop a macro that will correctly format a batch of illustrations. So far everything's going to plan, but what I thought would be the easiest bit is proving the hardest. I want to use the 'fit to page' function, but I can't record it (the function is greyed out) and I can't find any reference in the help manual to script it either. Anyone done this before?  After some digging it looks like this may only be a function available in 7.3 - I have 7.2, can anyone confirm?

2.  I'm also trying to select  any text which is less than 7pt. I have 2 different sizes on the illustration so I can't use the 'font_size is not' function. 

I've been trying to develop a macro to select the smaller sized text and then lock it using the box.top and box.bottom parameters, but it fails to select the smaller size text, just the last piece of text on the illustration. It goes like this:

Macro Select text size

# recorded with Arbortext IsoDraw 7.2

DEFINE myElem AS Element

Select IF Type is equal to "Text"

myElem = activeDoc.firstSelectedElement

IF (myElem.box.top - myElem.box.bottom is smaller than 3) THEN

myElem.locked = 1

myElem = myElem.nextSelectedElement

END IF

End Macro

Anyone have any ideas why this doesn't work? In theory it should take the top box parameter and subtract the bottom box parameter of the first selected text element and if it's less than 3 (mm I'm guessing) it should lock it and move on to the next text element. All I get is that last text element locked (after a fashion) no matter what size it is.

Thanks for any ideas you may have.

Cheers

Rob

Arbortext NOTATION cgm Error

February 19, 2014, 3:39 am

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Hi everyone,

Arbortext Editor is killing the illustration Notation. After placing a cgm-file the XML structure should show up as

<!NOTATION cgm SYSTEM "cgm"> but all I can see is <!NOTATION cgm SYSTEM> (without "cgm").

Does anyone know why Arbortext is doing this?
Any help would be great! Best regards from snowless Munich!
Helmut

Publishing Engine - HOW?

February 6, 2014, 2:42 pm

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Is there a way to run an xsl on multiple xml files with Publishing Engine?

How to know the last page of a title in a TOC?

February 11, 2014, 3:29 am

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Hi all,

 

In a TOC, is showed the first page where each title starts. I need to know the last page where the content of this title appears. Someone knows how can I do it?

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What image file format are you using in Editor?

February 4, 2014, 2:12 pm

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We are currently creating an .idr file in Isodraw. We then export it to jpg and to cgm. The jpg is so you can see what the end result looks like and the cgm is put in a different folder where the manual is located. We then create a link in editor to the cgm, so it can be used in the manual. It seems that when you publish, every cgm is then converted to eps. Would we be better off using the idr files, instead of creating cgms??

 

thanks

 

Bryon

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February 24, 2014, 4:32 am

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Hi.....we are not able to see generated text for elements with a particular namespace....when we do Format -> Modify Element In Context.. we are not able to see element's FOSI for those elements belonging to particular namespace....however it works fine for other elements.

 

Any idea what could be going wrong.....we have xsd associated with the document...and the same namespace is that of root element as well.

 

Regards,

Pawan

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February 24, 2014, 1:34 pm

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In the "Arbortext Content Pipeline Guide", an example jar was mentioned few times, but I was not able to find it.

 

Anyone knows where to find it ??

 

Thank you.

Compatibility

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I have an old version of IsoDraw (from the Itedo days). I have upgraded to a new version of Windows and have tried to install my version of Itedo IsoDraw but it does not work. Any ideas or suggestions?

 

Thanks

 

Garry

Size of value string block exceeds maximum capacity of 524280 bytes.

February 26, 2014, 2:56 pm

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I am adding a large amount of entitity declarations and referencing them from a DTD. The compile fails with

"Size of value string block exceeds maximum capacity of 524280 bytes.

Document type definition is too complex

Compile failed - rc=64"

 

Just what capacity does this error refer to? I have tried various settings in the SGML Declaration, but the 524280 byte limit in the error message never changes. Is this an internal Arbortext limitation?

 

In the past, we have simply upped various capacity values in the SGML Declaration and got the desired result. But I can't see how to make this limit budge.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks. Debra Lee