Print on Windows

If you are using Arbortext PE server on a Windows server or Arbortext Styler, you will see which publishing engine is being used for PDF publishing: PTC Advanced Print Publisher (PTC APP), FOSI, or XSL-FO. The Print Engine displays which one is in use. For more information on these publishing engines, see Publishing Engine Overview.

• Name — Specify the printer. The status, type, and location information appearing below the name of the printer apply to the currently active printer.

• Properties — Open a dialog box for the specified printer in which you can set additional printer properties.

• Print to file — Check the box to print to file. You must supply a file name for the file when you choose OK.

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; you can't send a stylesheet to the server with your document.

• Config File — Specify the configuration file to use when formatting the document if your Print Engine is PTC Advanced Print Publisher.

If you are using Arbortext Publishing Engine for publishing documents, the list displays the notation (pe) preceding the configuration file. These are the configuration files available from the Arbortext PE server. Local configuration files are ignored; you can't send a configuration file to the server with your document.

• Print Engine displays the type of publishing engine being used. For information, see Publishing Engine Overview.

• 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.

All prints every page of the document.

Pages prints a range of pages that you specify in the page range entry field. Enter the page numbers separated by a comma for individual pages or a hyphen to include all pages within the range (for example, 1, 3. 5–7).

• Copies — Specify the number of copies of the document or pages to be printed. If Collate is checked, a document will be printed in its entirety before printing a subsequent copy.

◦ Crop Marks — Turns on printing of crop marks. See Setting up crop marks for additional information.

◦ Datemark Header — Adds a page header which contains the current date, filename, user-id, and page number at the top of each page.

◦ Registration Marks — Turns on printing registration marks. Available only when using PTC Advanced Print Publisher (PTC APP).

◦ Reverse Page Order — Prints the pages last-to-first. This is useful if your printer stacks the first page printed at the bottom of the pile. (Note that some documents that include PostScript prologues may not print with reverse page ordering.)

◦ Scale to Fit — Automatically scales the pages in a document to fit the selected paper size.

• 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.

Many of the page-specific settings in Arbortext Editor are automatically controlled by the page definitions set in your stylesheet and require no manual settings. For example, if your document contains pages that should print in landscape, and this page definition is set in your stylesheet, the file styles those pages in landscape orientation.