Print Dialog Box
The Print dialog box on Windows contains the following settings:
• 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.
• Stylesheet — Select a stylesheet from 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; 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 (PTC APP).
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 if you are using an
Arbortext PE server or
Arbortext Styler:
PTC Advanced Print Publisher (
PTC APP), FOSI, or XSL-FO. 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).
The choices are:
◦ 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.
• Print range — Specify the portion of the document that will be printed.
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.
• Options — Provides these additional options:
◦ 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.
◦ Formatting — Allows you to control the number of passes required to publish your output before sending it to the printer.
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The Formatting option is not available if you are using Arbortext Publishing Engine to publish documents.
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This setting is not available when printing Arbortext XML DocBook documents.
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The options are:
▪ One pass — Choose this option if there have been minor changes to the document you wish to print. Arbortext Editor determines what has been modified since the last time the document was formatted, and adjusts existing formatting to reflect these modifications. If the file has not been modified, no formatting is done.
▪ All passes — Choose this option if the document you wish to print has been extensively revised since the last time it was formatted. Arbortext Editor determines what has been modified since the last time the file was formatted, and adjusts existing formatting to reflect these modifications. If the file has not been modified, no formatting is done. You are most likely to need more than one formatting pass to format a document which has detailed indexes, or complicated page numbering schemes.
This is the system default.
▪ Force, one pass — Choose this option if you wish Arbortext Editor to format your document before sending it to the printer, whether there have been any modifications to the document or not.
▪ Force, all passes — Choose this option if you wish Arbortext Editor to completely reformat your document before sending it to the printer, whether or not there have been any modifications.
▪ Without Reformatting — Choose this option if you want to print the last published version of your file. No formatting will be performed. Use this option when previewing the document indicates that it is formatted exactly as desired.
• 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.
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