Differences Between a Compact and Full Installation

The compact installation of Arbortext Editor has the following primary differences from the full installation:

• Some Arbortext Editor menu choices and dialog box options are changed or not available.

The size of the compact install tree is much smaller than the full Arbortext Editor install tree. The size of the tree has been reduced to make the compact installation easier to download for users. Generally, any directory or file that does not directly support authoring is not available in the compact installation. For example, the samples directory is not available in the compact installation, as it is intended for customizing Arbortext Editor.

Reducing the size of the installation tree has resulted in some Arbortext Editor product options being unavailable or different from the full installation. The following sections provide details about those differences.

Local composition is not supported in the compact installation. You must have Arbortext Publishing Engine available to compose documents with a compact installation. Note that it is recommended you set the peservices and peserverurl preferences in the Deploy Directory’s siteprefs.xml file.

In the compact installation, the File > Print Preview operation does not invoke the Preview window. Instead, this operation produces a PDF file that is displayed in Adobe Reader or the system’s default PDF viewing application. Since this involves PDF composition, print preview requires Arbortext Publishing Engine. Also, a PDF viewing application must also be available on the system.

In the compact installation, the File > Print operation also produces a PDF file that is displayed in the system’s default PDF viewing application. Once the PDF file is displayed in the PDF viewing application, users must print the PDF from that application.

When a user selects the Print operation in a compact installation, Arbortext Editor displays a Print Information dialog box informing the user that this operation produces a PDF file. This dialog box includes a Do not show this again check box, so the user can choose to not see that dialog box again.

In the compact installation, SVG graphics are displayed in the Arbortext Editor embedded PTC Arbortext IsoView control. In the full installation, a raster image is generated and displayed for this graphic type in the Edit view. Note that this does not affect composition of the graphic, just the display in the Edit view.

Note that if svg is removed from the setting of the isovieweditorfileformats preference, then that graphic type cannot be displayed in the compact installation.

The compact installation does not support compiling document types. If a user attempts to open an SGML document for which the associated document type has not been compiled, the document can only be opened in free-form mode or as text. If you are using an SGML document type, be sure to compile the document type before including it in your Deploy Directory.

The Technical Information Application is an optional component in the compact installation. You can choose to include the Technical Information Application in your Deploy Directory.

Creo View Express and Arbortext IsoView are optional components in the compact installation. If you want to work with intelligent graphics, you must include Creo View Express in your Deploy Directory.

Besides the menu choices already covered in previous sections, the following menu choices are not available in the compact installation:

The following dialog box options are changed in the compact installation:

• Dialog boxes associated with the print preview and print composed operations are changed to support PDF composition.

• The Arbortext Article (XML DocBook V4.0) document type is not available in the New Document dialog box.

• The Session tab on the Session dialog box has a new Compact Installation value that displays whether the version of Arbortext Editor currently running is a compact installation.

Some command line options for the Arbortext Editoreditor.exe startup command are not available in the compact installation. For example, only the free version of Arbortext Styler is supported in the compact installation so the -styler option is not supported. If you try to use a command line option that is not supported, Arbortext Editor displays a message that the option is not supported.