Preview Dialog Box

Use the Preview dialog box to review a formatted document to check the layout and appearance. You can then print to a locally available printer.

If you are Using Arbortext Publishing Engine for Publishing Documents, the preview process is performed on the Arbortext PE server A formatted file is returned to the Preview window when publishing is completed.

If you are using an Arbortext PE server or Arbortext Editor with Arbortext Styler, you will see which Print Engine is being used for preview: PTC Arbortext Layout Developer (PTC ALD), FOSI, or XSL-FO. If you are publishing with PTC ALD on an Arbortext PE server, a PDF file is returned.

• Stylesheet — Select a stylesheet from the list. Paste or type a path or URL, or click Browse to locate an existing stylesheet that does not appear in the list.

If you are Using Arbortext Publishing Engine for Publishing Documents, the list displays the stylesheets available from the Arbortext Publishing Engine server. The notation (pe) appears in the stylesheet name. Local stylesheets are ignored.

• DITAVAL File — Lists the DITAVAL files (.ditaval) you can apply when publishing the document.

This option is only available when you are publishing a DITA map or topic. The files in the list are from the current document directory, the document type directory for the current document, and from the DITA references path. If you are Using Arbortext Publishing Engine for Publishing Documents, the DITAVAL file in the list is from the local document type directory, not the document type directory on the Arbortext PE server.

Click Browse to locate a DITAVAL file that does not appear in the list.

• If you are publishing with Arbortext Publishing Engine and PTC ALD, you can choose an PTC ALD configuration file.

For more information, refer to Print and PDF Configuration Files.

• If your document has change tracking, you can publish the document in any of the change tracking states. By default, the change tracking view from the Edit window is selected, except when publishing from a DITA map.

If you are publishing a DITA map, Changes Applied is selected by default. When publishing from a DITA Map, the Change Tracking view that's selected applies only to the topics referenced from the DITA maps. The DITA map itself, as well as other referenced maps, will always be published with Changes Applied, regardless of the Change Tracking view selected (even if a map has change tracking markup).

◦ Changes with Highlighting — Shows all proposed changes, highlighted with revision marks.

◦ Changes Applied — Shows all proposed changes incorporated into the document, without revision marks.

◦ Original — Shows the original document without proposed changes incorporated into the document.

• Set Profiles — Opens the Set Profiles dialog box. If you have published the document previously in your current Arbortext Editor session, your last profile settings will be displayed. The Set Profiles button is only available if profiles have been configured for the selected document type.

You can configure the Print Preview process for your document type to allow users to select a stylesheet or to select the number of formatting passes Arbortext Editor uses to publish the output before displaying it. The Arbortext XML DocBook document type uses the Preview dialog box. The Docbook document type uses the formatting passes process.