There are two content compilers that translate a DVI file to PostScript or PDF. On Windows, the DVI-to-PostScript compiler is named pubview.exe and the DVI-to-PDF compiler is named pubpdf.exe.

When Arbortext Editor is using the Arbortext PE server for publishing, and the publishing operation is producing PostScript for printing or for saving to a disk file, pubview.exe runs on the Arbortext Editor client machine. If a publishing operation is producing PDF, the PubPDF content compiler always runs on the server.