topic Re: Publishing TM Getting error in Arbortext

Publishing TM Getting error

MohitPatel — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:24:38 GMT

I am trying to publish TM that is around 8000 page. We can publish each chapter separately but when we combined into whole TM, we get this error .

PTC Arbortext Editor (Build 8.1.3.1-2) terminated unexpectedly at Fri Feb 6 15:21:47 2026:

[A17120] Assertion failed: size < TXF_MARK, file D:\jenkins\workspace\Adept_1\adept\src\pub\pub\edit\src\stortxt.cpp, line 534

Current ACL statement at "C:\progra~1\PTC\arbort~1\packages\main\_grhook.acl":264:
264 [1] return path

ACL function traceback at time of error:
#1   layout::format(doc=31, sourcedoc=31, sstype="", force=1) at "C:\progra~1\PTC\arbort~1\packages\main\_grhook.acl":264
#2   comp_pdf::pdf_postprocessing(doc=31, params=inParams[], interactive=1)
#3   compose::compose_for_type_int(doc=31, comp_type="pdf", interactive=1, inParams=inParams[], preprocessing_function="comp_pdf::pdf_preprocessing", dialog_function="comp_pdf::dialog_for_pdf", param_fixup_function="comp_pdf::pdf_parameter_fixup", postprocessing_function="comp_pdf::pdf_postprocessing") at "C:\progra~1\PTC\arbort~1\packages\tools\compose.acl":2672
#4   compose::compose_for_type(doc=31, comp_type="pdf", interactive=1, inParams=current_params[], prefn="comp_pdf::pdf_preprocessing", dialogfn="comp_pdf::dialog_for_pdf", paramfn="comp_pdf::pdf_parameter_fixup", postfn="comp_pdf::pdf_postprocessing") at "C:\progra~1\PTC\arbort~1\packages\tools\compose.acl":1761
#5   compose::compose_for_pdf(doc=31, batch_params=dummy[]) at "C:\progra~1\PTC\arbort~1\packages\tools\comp_pdf.acl":324
#6   compose_pdf() at "C:\progra~1\PTC\arbort~1\packages\tools\comp_pdf.acl":117

thank you

Re: Publishing TM Getting error

bfriesen — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:12:54 GMT

Just did a quick search of the PTC help

Looks like it has been asked before also with no solutions

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Arbortext/A17120-Assertion-failed-aptFalse-file-src-forsirtns-cpp-line/m-p/497907#M31261%3Fsource=search

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Arbortext/Error-A17120-Assertion-failed-size/m-p/231400#M16455%3Fsource=search

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Arbortext/blown-out-paths/m-p/190636#M13534%3Fsource=search

here are a couple from PTC support to look at.

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS410678?source=search

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS187410?source=search

Sotution:

The problem is due to the length of the <item>s contents exceeding the maximum length for <item>s in an assertion check
Removing the assertion has the potential to cause the application to become unstable and likely to crash

Bryon

Re: Publishing TM Getting error

manpsingh — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:24:30 GMT

Dear Customer,

Have you made any changes to this ACL? Did you customise this?

Regards,

Manpreet Singh

Re: Publishing TM Getting error

MohitPatel — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:06:02 GMT

Thank you Manpreet and bfriesen,

we have not modified any ACL. Per PTC support ticket https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS410678?source=search

I have test version of Editor 8.3.1. Ran thorough the same manual, I got signal 22 error.

Re: Publishing TM Getting error

manpsingh — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:47:08 GMT

Hello Mohit,

Did you also face the same error (along with what you mentioned above) mentioned in that article?

Regards,

Manpreet Singh

Re: Publishing TM Getting error

MohitPatel — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:57:38 GMT

Hello Manpreet,

Yes, we got the same error when we used editor 8.1 as the article. When we used Editor 6.0 (we had old version on one of the PC), it worked fine without any error. When we tried Editor 8.3.1, we got error signal 22.

Re: Publishing TM Getting error

manpsingh — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:27:51 GMT

Hi Mohit,

Thanks for your response. It seems like you are getting different error messages using different Editor versions but with the same document and shared few articles above did not help resolving this issue. I would request you open a PTC TS case and we'll investigate it.

Please let me know if you've any question, thanks.

Regards,

Manpreet Singh