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Arbortext Version 6.0 M020 Released

Here’s the list of SPRs and enhancements added to a product release. We highly recommend you log in to the support site and read the release notes (login required) and SPR fix list (login required) for more details.

Here’s a short summary, but all Arbortext products have been affected in the 6.0 M020 release. Platform support, browser support, languages and localization are all addressed in the release notes.

SPR Fixes Summary

  • Configuration Changes
  • Support for XML Catalog Files
  • Changes to Default Settings in PDF Configuration Files
  • New Technical Information Application
    With this release, a new Technical Information Application is provided by default with Arbortext Editor. This application is a set of DITA topics intended for developing information about service operations and parts. The topics in this application work in conjunction with Windchill Service Information Manager and Windchill Service Parts.
  • Support for Creo View Express
  • Table Border Enhancements
  • Java Virtual Machine (JVM) updated to 1.6.0_26 (major security fix)
  • New DITA category added to preferences dialog box
  • Resource Manager Changes
  • DITA Templates updated
  • EPUB output added to Styler (requires Calibre 0.8.0 or later)
  • Accessible PDF & HTML Output
  • Semantic HTML Output
  • Support for Multiple (scoped) indexes
  • Windchill Service Information Manager Support
  • Changes to Burst Configuration Files
  • Arbortext Import Tutorial updated
  • AOM changes
  • Misc ACL changes

Detials for specific SPR Fixes

Arbortext Editor

  • 1200267 File entities will now display after edit -current.
  • 1221271 Opening an XML file through WebDAV for editing no longer results in two GET calls and associated performance issues.
  • 2060240 Support for XML catalogs corresponding to SGML features has been implemented.
  • 2061876 Opening an XML file through WebDAV for editing no longer results in two GET calls and associated performance issues.
  • 2063500 Arbortext’s DOM API is now Java 5 compatible. w3dom.jar has been removed from the lib\classes\endorsed directory, and a new w3cdomval.jar file now appears in lib\classes.
  • 2069184 All schema elements will be shown as valid to insert when the element’s content model in the schema includes any.
  • 2070367 Repeating a delete (forward) character command will delete the correct character.
  • 2071547 Though generated text is not spell checked, Arbortext Editor considers the presence of white space in generated text as forcing a new word to check with respect to spell checking.
  • 2072270 The presence of change tracking will no longer cause Arbortext Editor to incorrectly report that a text field is invalid with respect to a schema’s text restrictions.
  • 2073865 The ACL $selection variable will be correctly updated when the sgmlselection preference is changed.
  • 2075053 EPS graphics that require extensive spot color conversion can now be handled without error.
  • 2075533 Pasting Excel content is no longer subject to a forced 50,000 cell limit.
  • 2076240 The limit on the number of text strings permitted in a document has been increased.
  • 2077346 Object IDs generated for ISO graphics transformed by IsoDraw/IsoView now conform to WebCGM standard, allowing the objects to be listed in browsing dialogs.
  • 2078102 The contents of tag templates and file entities will show correctly in their dialogs for document types that are not found via catalogpath.
  • 2079400 The Replace Al lReplace Al l function will not stop early in some situations when change tracking is turned on.
  • 2079862 The Remove Arbor text PIs on SaveRemove Arbor text PIs on Save button on the PreferencesPreferences dialog box will now remember its state properly.
  • 2081441 Modifying or renaming an entity in the FOSI editor will no longer incorrectly give a read-only error.
  • 2081680 Parser messages about non-existent XInclude files will be sent to the parser error hook like other messages.
  • 2082942 Arbortext Editor no longer unexpectedly terminates when a document is re-opened inside its destroy hook.
  • 2083115 The spell dialog will no longer lose focus when continually spell checking a dialog in an Arbortext Editor window running as an embedded ActiveX control.
  • 2083166 The Paste SpecialPaste Special function will report errors to the status bar similarly to regular paste.
  • 2083426 Arbortext Editor will no longer allow a tag to be inserted if the tag (along with its previous and following siblings) forms a run of tags that is disallowed by the content model.
  • 2087041 An ACL error will no longer occur when attempting to construct a temporary file name from a file name that contains bracket characters.

Publishing

  • 2066309 Hyphens are now underlined when they appear at the end of a line.
  • 2066881 The use of spanned and non spanned cells in the same row no longer leads to incorrect placement of later cells in APP table publishing.
  • 2066886 The middle row spanning beyond single page is now handled correctly.
  • 2069166 The APP engine will now direct PStill to use JPEG compression when the color image compression type is set to JPEG in the PDF printer driver options.
  • 2069356 A link to a target containing a table functions correctly in PDF output.
  • 2069973 Invoking an APP macro with application.runMacro() when no document is open no longer causes an application exit.
  • 2071369 Additional space is no longer added to tables during publishing.
  • 2071770 A suffix to an item number now does not appear in cross references to the item in HTML output.
  • 2072272 Deleted content no longer appears in change tracked PDF output generated by APP.
  • 2072757 Right alignment setting is respected for tables when outputting a PDF using the APP engine.
  • 2072758 Custom counters now appear in the specified format in FOSI output.
  • 2073036 XPath expressions placed in headers and footers can now access the main document tree without using any edited source.
  • 2073483 The spacing after a table title and its repeated equivalent on the next page(s) is now of the same measure.
  • 2074162 A table that includes row spans in cells not in the first column plus a request to keep the top of the partial row together will no longer break unexpectedly to the next page.
  • 2075359 Inline equations now display as inline when published to HTML output.
  • 2075732 Column structure in a right-to-left layout will no longer be changed in output generated by the APP engine.
  • 2077974 An xref pointing to a step with a figure or table located inside an info tag within the step now takes its numbering from the step number as expected, not from the figure or table.
  • 2077994 Table borders based on a double rule with a line weight heavier than the lines in the rest of the table now display correctly in APP PDF output.
  • 2077998 A PDF of a document containing a large number of EPS files will now show all graphics.
  • 2078000 Publishing a page range from a ditamap to PDF now completes as expected.
  • 2078209 Tables with narrow columns shows content as expected.
  • 2078652 Images will be resized during publishing if they have the scalefit and height attributes set but the width attribute not set.
  • 2078801 Table borders based on a double rule with a heavier line weight than other table rules now display correctly in FOSI PDF output.
  • 2079376 Index numbering made up of two numbers denoting a range of pages now both point to the correct pages.
  • 2079833 Low level keeps settings are now treated the same way in FOSI and APP outputs.
  • 2080785 Graphics referenced from a path to Arbortext Content Manager now appear as expected in HTML output.
  • 2081988 Publishing PDF with APP proceeds as normal.
  • 2084058 Publishing PDF with APP proceeds as normal.
  • 2084074 Row separators are now displayed as expected in tables without frames, when published to HTML outputs.
  • 2086107 Publishing of a PDF no longer fails when a bookmark is formatted off the page due to a content overflow.
  • 2086430 Graphics referenced via URL will now be processed correctly when generating PDF output with an XSL-FO stylesheet.
  • 2087265 Content inserted into generated text via Insert->XPath String now appears as expected
  • 2087267 Content inserted into generated text via Insert->Attribute Content now appears as expected.
  • 2087449 Topics or chapters are no longer displayed as linked text in PDF output.

For more information..

Documentation supporting Arbortext is delivered in the Arbortext Editor Help Center. Documentation for this and all recent releases can also be downloaded from the Reference Documentation area of  the PTC web site at support.ptc.com.

 

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September 20, 2011 · Filed under Arbortext Resources, products, release notes

Arbortext 5.4 M100 Released

Here’s the list of SPRs and enhancements added to a product release. We highly recommend you log in to the support site and read the release notes (login required).

Here’s a short summary, but all Arbortext products have been affected in the 5.4 M100 release. Platform support, browser support, languages and localization are all addressed in the release notes.

SPR Fixes Summary

  • 1357725 Files with filenames containing non-English language characters can now be opened with a double click action in explorer.
  • 2019564 Page breaks no longer lead to widowed or orphaned table rows when deep content splitting is enabled.
  • 2029013 Graphics in chapters referenced by XInclude statements now appear in preview output.
  • 2033131 Logging back into Internet Explorer via the Documentum menu after disconnecting from Documentum is now successful
  • 2045729 When composing a document using line numbering, the presence of a quick mark or bookmark no longer causes line numbers to slip onto the next page.
  • 2046042 When composing a document using line numbering, the presence of a quickmark or bookmark not longer causes line numbers to slip onto the next page.
  • 2051009 When using the PTC Server connection to download large data sets in secure environments requiring the use of client side security certificates, Arbortext Editor no longer terminates unexpectedly.
  • 2052935 Selecting a stylesheet from a sorted list in the Select Stylesheet / Open Stylesheet dialog boxes opens the correct stylesheet.
  • 2054645 Bursting rules no longer fail if processing instructions are included before the topmost element in an XML file.
  • 2056617 A focus issue when Arbortext Editor is embedded (using ActiveX) inside multiple Internet Explorer windows no longer happens.
  • 2056883 Distributed DITA stylesheets now contain the correct ID generation attribute for graphics.
  • 2056961 Landscape content published to RTF can now be printed from MS Word without generating margins are outside printable area messages.
  • 2057619 Button text in the change tracking dialog will no longer appear differently on certain locales.
  • 2058772 Arbortext Editor will not consider the selection empty in some cases when all of the generated text of a tag with no content is selected.
  • 2059529 Arbortext Editor will now correctly write character entity numeric references in attribute values when converting from SGML to XML.
  • 2060233 Arbortext Editor will now allow the splitting of a document type’s root tag when the tag is not the root tag of the document instance.
  • 2060298 The  entity will appear as a space in SGML documents.
  • 2061084 Dropdown lists in the Modify Attributes dialog box for attributes with enumerated values will not be populated with values that are invalid for the current tag’s position.
  • 2061876 Opening an XML file through WebDAV for editing no longer results in two GET calls and associated performance issues.
  • 2062765 A DITA topic that contains references to graphic objects in Windchill can now be checked into Windchill after opening it in a new workspace from the one it was created in.
  • 2063290 PStill will now check for a temporary directory declared by the TEMP environment variable on Solaris/Linux before setting its own.
  • 2063537 The Compose->Using XSL menu item is always enabled for SGML, XML, and HTML documents.
  • 2063638 Graphics referenced with an absolute location path now display as expected.
  • 2063688 Arbortext Editor no longer stops responding when publishing documents containing sparsely-filled tables.
  • 2065637 A target search with the like operator is case insensitive.
  • 2065685 New parameters for the f=convert function for Arbortext Publishing Engine permit the specification of crop marks and registration marks.
  • 2065781 Deleting metadata from a target removes the metadata as expected.
  • 2065907 A redisplay in ditamapoutlinemode no longer causes unnecessary refreshes in a FOSI file.
  • 2066309 Hyphens are now underlined when they appear at the end of a line.
  • 2066576 ISO graphics that have scale-to-fit and one of the dimensions specified look the same in PDFs generated by both FOSI and APP.
  • 2066881 The use of spanned and non spanned cells in the same row no longer leads to incorrect placement of later cells in APP table composition.
  • 2066886 The middle row spanning beyond single page is now handled correctly.
  • 2066962 It will no longer be slow to open a file entity with many top level siblings.
  • 2067315 Use of accented characters in Generated Content variable names no longer creates errors when the stylesheet is converted to FOSI.
  • 2067320 The EpicGenerator parameter supplyDefault has been exposed in shipped profile.ccf files.
  • 2067847 The XUI scripts that are marked as usage=indirect will no longer be executed when the dialog is open.
  • 2068027 Profiling initialization code is no longer called twice when opening a document.
  • 2068279 Reduced likelihood of unwanted data being generated when a property has an empty string (“”) as a value.
  • 2068560 Rules added to a spanned cell that grows by a column being inserted to it will display the correct style.
  • 2068570 The Arbortext Publishing Engine management thread deletes old transactions.
  • 2069166 The APP engine will now direct PStill to use JPEG compression when the colour image compression type is set to JPEG in the PDF printer driver options.
  • 2069184 All schema elements will be shown as valid to insert when the element’s content model in the schema includes any.
  • 2069207 Using the function sess_doc_burst(dms::current_sess(), doc_open(??.?)) in a customization no longer causes Arbortext Editor to terminate unexpectedly.
  • 2069356 A link to a target containing a table functions correctly in PDF output.
  • 2069973 Invoking an APP macro with application.runMacro() when no document is open no longer causes an application exit.
  • 2070367 Repeating a delete (forward) character command will delete the correct character.
  • 2071369 Additional space is no longer added to tables during composition.
  • 2071547 Though generated text is not spell checked, Arbortext Editor considers the presence of white space in generated text as forcing a new word to check with respect to spell checking.
  • 2071770 A suffix to an item number now does not appear in cross references to the item in HTML output
  • 2072270 The presence of change tracking will no longer cause Arbortext Editor to incorrectly report that a text field is invalid with respect to a schema’s text restrictions.
  • 2072272 Deleted content no longer appears in change tracked PDF output generated by APP.
  • 2072300 The Go To button on the Insert Link dialog for DLM will now immediately scroll to the target.
  • 2072758 Custom counters now appear in the specified format in the FOSI output.
  • 2072987 With the Arbortext Publishing Engine on a Unix machine, all EPS graphics will display in PDF output generated via PDFDirect.
  • 2073036 XPath expressions placed in headers, footers can now access the main document tree without using any edited source.
  • 2073865 The ACL $selection variable will be correctly updated when the sgmlselection preference is changed.
  • 2074162 A table that includes row spans in cells not in the first column plus a request to keep the top of the partial row together will no longer break unexpectedly to the next page.
  • 2075359 Inline equations now display as inline when composed to HTML output.

For more information..

Documentation supporting Arbortext is delivered in the Arbortext Editor Help Center. Documentation for this and all recent releases can also be downloaded from the Reference Documentation area of  the PTC web site at support.ptc.com.

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June 28, 2011 · Filed under release notes

What is new in Arbortext 6.0?

Arbortext is more than an Editor. Arbortext is really a full platform from editing to publishing and content management.

However, today, I’m just going to talk about Editor and maybe about Styler a little bit, but only if there’s time. The changes to Styler will fill an article all by themselves. So, here’s a little bit of a tour, with a focus on the improvements to DITA support. There are a lot of new changes that everyone who’s an everyday user has been happy to see.

APP is now the default rendering engine for print output

One thing to know is that default print engine is APP now. FOSI is still supported through Print composer, but it’s no longer the primary engine. APP produces magazine quality layout with complicated layout rules.

Usability improvements

The first thing anyone would notice is the new file dialog has been redesigned. There’s categorization in the left hand panel — People who had a lot of doctypes, there was a lot of scrolling to find what you wanted. Now, the File->New dialog is a lot more convenient: You can now have samples and templates and it’s all controlled through a preference now, out of the box.

Commenting out markup

Commenting out markup is easy now. If you comment out a paragraph, it won’t appear in your output. Now, Arbortext Editor supports wrapping markup inside the comment. The para tags are contained inside the comments and are restored if you remove the comment.

Tag Templates and File Entities.

This is much improved, you can better preview your templates. Particularly important for table markup. Before, you used to see the tags and it didn’t always make sense if you didn’t understnad what the markup looked like. Now, you see the table and you can see what it will look like in your content. You can edit just like it’s in editor. File entities are previewable, but not yet editible. Then again they’re file entities.

Find and replace — Attributes

In older Editor versions, you could find elements, but it was hard to replace values. Now you can replace them directly.  If you search for attribute role with value external, you can simply replace the value with another one.

Spell checking

Spell checking has lots of nice advantages now.  Now you don’t get red squiggly every time you type a url or email address.  And there’s a new file that handles all your Accept and Reject terms. Say you don’t want someone to use the word “can’t” for example, you add that word to the single file that handles spell checking and you’re all set. This used to be split into two files. Now it’s all in one file.

Improved table handling

The key here is the bars on the side of the window. If it’s fixed height, the bar will turn red – a visual indicator telling you that it’s changed. Makes it a lot harder to accidentally change row and table heights and not realize it.

Modify cell borders is redesigned

A lot easier to pick cell borders, and define color shading/alternate row coloring

Schematron support

ISO standard another way to validat content that DTDs (or schemas) aren’t able to do . Why do you have a list if you only have one item? The way to check for these errors, Schematron is now part of the Tools->Completeness Check. This is all done through .sch files and the .dcf file config changes. You used to have this in post processing. Schematron makes checking business rules a ton easier.

Some misc improvements

  • Join multiple adjacent tags. In the edit menu you will see a new ‘join elements’ option. Say you have 3 paras and want them to be merged into one. You used to have to do this one at a time. Now you can select all and join.
  • Equations now are parsed like other markup – This means equations have no size limit to them.
  • Preferences — these file listing are now editable in sub windows, so it’s easier to see, easier to change priorities. This is true of anything with file (file entities, where to find browser, etc..)

Resource manager

WC resource manager now has the right-click context menu built in. It’s much more seemless. You can check out, you can see properties and metadata from the repository, and search right from this context menu. You used to have to do this through the repository browser. Now it’s easy to drill in and find out what you need right in the resource manager.

Also, the “Look In” field is now synchronized across the tabs and it has a new History Tab, so you can go looking where you were looking recently.

DITA Support

DITA specializations: You no longer have to develop the Resolved Document for Editing (RDE) or the Resolved Document for Styling (RDS) for specialziation. This is huge. Prior to the 6.0 release, this was confusing and took up a lot of extra time. If you were adding math, you always specialized. Now you can edit both maps and topics in RDE.

Keyrefs: DITA 1.2 Keyrefs are fully supported in Editor. You can use keyrefs globally or locally. Best practice is to have a separate map that can change your key definitions. One nice feature is that the value of the keyref is resolved properly when you’re editing in Arbortext Editor; it gets resolved during publishing; and, it gets checked in the Completeness Check step. Arbortext Editor will show you all the keyrefs that are available in a document.

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June 25, 2011 · Filed under products, release notes

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