A publishing rule or rule set intended for deployment on the Arbortext PE server must be created using Arbortext Publishing Engine Interactive. This means that when the rule file is saved, its type will be local on the server, but it will be offered to Arbortext Editor clients and other client applications as a server rule. Publishing rules can be put in the server’s custom\publishingrules directory or a custom\publishingrules directory defined by the APTCUSTOM environment variable.

An administrator can also deploy local publishing rules for multiple Arbortext Editor users who are not using Arbortext Publishing Engine (meaning they have Arbortext Styler or a local Print Composer option license ). The rule files can be made available from a common custom\publishingrules directory accessible to their local machines, where the location is most likely defined by setting the path in the user’s APTCUSTOM environment variable.