PDF Configuration File for the PTC APP Engine
A default XML configuration file that supports publishing of PDF with the PTC APP engine is provided with a Arbortext Editor environment that includes Arbortext Styler or Arbortext Publishing Engine:
Arbortext-path/app/standard.appcf
You can save a custom version of this file if you wish to tailor your own PDF publishing process/output. Open the file in Arbortext Editor (without a stylesheet), make changes, then save the custom file, with the same file extension, in any of these locations:
• Publishing PDF from Arbortext Editor or Arbortext Styler — you can browse for a custom file, or locate it in the APTCUSTOM\app directory where PTC APP will find it
• Publishing PDF via Arbortext Publishing Engine — a custom file must be located on the PE server, in any of these locations:
◦ Arbortext-path\app
◦ any APTCUSTOM\app directory
◦ an application or custom doctype\nnn directory, where nnn is the short doctype name of the doctype of the document being published.
Custom .appcf files must contain a single Print and a single Format element, although these do not require child elements to be valid.
Use the set appconfigfile command to specify an alternate location for an PTC APP configuration file. For more information, see the Arbortext Command Language Reference.
See
APP PDF Configuration File (.appcf) for information on the contents of the
PTC APP configuration file.
Guidelines for customizing some common PDF properties in the configuration file are provided here:
The default configuration file defines these initial view document properties:
◦ Navigation tab — Page Only
◦ Page layout — Single Page
◦ Magnification — Default
◦ Open to page — 1
◦ Window Options — Resize window to initial page
◦ Window Options — Show Document Title
The default configuration file specifies these levels of compression:
◦ Text compression activated
◦ Monochrome images — CCITT Group 4 Compression
◦ Grayscale images — Flate (Zip) Compression
◦ Color images — Flate (Zip) Compression
◦ Quality of grayscale JPEG compression — medium
◦ Quality of color JPEG compression — medium
The default configuration file sets compatibility to PDF 1.7 (Acrobat 8 onwards)
The default configuration file specifies that web optimized output will not be generated.
The default configuration file specifies that crop marks and registration marks will be output according to selections made in the Publish dialog. Crop marks and bleed areas have default size and placement settings:
◦ Crop mark size — 9mm
◦ Crop mark offset from page — 1mm
◦ Bleed areas — a bleed area of 4mm will be applied to each side of a page