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Setting debugcomposition
The publishing process often creates a number of internal files.
When publishing with Arbortext Publishing Engine, Arbortext Editor generates a log of the communication process, generates a zip archive for transmission to the Arbortext PE server, and receives a zip archive back from the Arbortext PE server.
When publishing to PDF using Arbortext Editor with Arbortext Styler, Arbortext Editor might successively produce a revised XML document, a DVI file, a PostScript file, and a PDF output file..
If you set the ACL option set debugcomposition to on, the intermediate files and logs are saved for debugging. You can retrieve these files by selecting Tools > Save Application. The Save Application utility generates a directory containing a substantial amount of information, including publishing information. The publishing information is contained in the file compose.zip in the resulting appsave directory.