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Preview Options in Arbortext Styler
You can preview the effects of your stylesheet on your documents from Arbortext Styler.
Choose the Preview menu option from the Arbortext Styler window and then choose one of the available outputs:
• Arbortext Editor - displays the document in Arbortext Editor using the current stylesheet settings.
• Print - displays the document in a print preview window using the current stylesheet settings.
The publishing engine used to generate a print preview usually depends on the active print engine setting for your Arbortext Editor with Styler environment. See Publishing engine overview in Arbortext Editor help for a summary of the capabilities of each print engine, and Logic for Print/Preview Engine Selection for a description of the method of determining the active print engine. See Choosing a Print Engine Setting for Preview with Arbortext Styler for some examples of combinations of print/preview engine settings, depending on the intended use of your stylesheet.
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The FOSI and XSL-FO print engines are on sustained support and do not receive enhancements or maintenance fixes. PTC ALD is the recommended engine for print/PDF output.
One of two distinct preview windows will be used to display your previewed document, depending on which print engine is generating the preview:
1. PTC ALD Preview window: displays previews generated with the PTC ALD print engine
2. Print preview window: displays previews generated with the FOSI or XSL-FO print engines
• PDF - displays the document as a PDF file in Adobe Reader, using the current stylesheet settings. You must have Adobe Reader installed.
The method used to create the PDF preview mirrors that set in Arbortext Editor for publishing to PDF.
The engine used to generate the PDF preview usually depends on the active print engine setting for your Arbortext Editor with Styler environment.
If your Arbortext Editor environment is set to use PTC ALD as the print engine for the publishing action, you will see the interim dialog box Publishing PDF while it is progressing. The dialog box provides information about the progress of the publishing action.
• EPUB - displays the document as an EPUB file (.epub) in Calibre’s E-book viewer using the current stylesheet settings. You must have Calibre 0.8.0 or later installed.
Refer to Publishing EPUB Output for further information.
• HTML File - displays the document as an HTML file in a browser using the current stylesheet settings.
• HTML Help - displays the document as an HTML Help file (.chm) in Microsoft's HTML Help viewer using the current stylesheet settings. You must have Microsoft HTML Help Workshop installed.
• Web - displays the document as a Arbortext Editor web document in a browser using the current stylesheet settings. You must have a supported browser to access this preview option.
• RTF - displays the document as an RTF file using the current stylesheet settings.
Arbortext Styler performs an automatic validation of your stylesheet when you select a preview action. If there are any errors in the stylesheet, if it contains incorrect references to modules, or there are incongruences in translation languages, details of the error will be listed in the Styler Log window.