Previewing a Document

Prerequisite: Arbortext PE server, Arbortext Styler, or the Print Composer Option.

You can check your document layout and formatting by viewing the document in a preview window, which displays the document as it would print.

The preview process is configured in the document type configuration file (.dcf). The Options attribute AllowComposeStylesheetList must be set to yes in the .dcf to allow the user to choose a stylesheet.

2. Choose the stylesheet from the Stylesheet list. Click Browse to locate an existing stylesheet that does not appear in the list. You can choose stylesheets of the following types:

◦ .3f: an PTC Advanced Print Publisher (PTC APP) template file. This type is only available if PTC APP is installed in your Arbortext Styler environment or on the Arbortext Publishing Engine server.

If you are using Arbortext Publishing Engine, the list displays the stylesheets available from the Arbortext PE server. The notation (pe) precedes the stylesheet name. Local stylesheets are ignored.

3. If you are previewing a DITA document that has an associated DITAVAL file, choose that file in the DITAVAL File list. Click Browse to locate an existing DITAVAL file that does not appear in the list.

4. If you are using Arbortext Publishing Engine and PTC ALD for publishing, you can choose an PTC APP configuration file.

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

6. 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.

7. If you want to apply profiling to your document, click Set Profiles to access the Set Profiles dialog box. The Set Profiles button is only available if profiles have been configured for the selected document type.

The effective print engine for your Arbortext Editor environment is based on settings made in Arbortext Editor, Arbortext Styler (if applicable), Arbortext Publishing Engine (if applicable) and your stylesheet. Therefore, one of the following distinct preview windows will display your previewed document, depending on which print engine is generating the preview and the type of preview you have requested:

• PTC APP Preview displays your formatted document in a print preview window published locally with the PTC APP print engine

• Adobe Reader displays your formatted document as a PDF if the request was sent to the Arbortext PE server and published with the PTC APP print engine.

• Print Preview displays your formatted document in a print preview window published with the FOSI or XSL-FO print engines.

If the document has already been previewed or published locally, Arbortext Editor uses the formatting information stored in the .aptcache directory as the basis for formatting new information.

For information about stylesheets, please refer to Stylesheets Overview in the User's Guide to Arbortext Styler and the Administrator's Guide. For information about using PTC Advanced Print Publisher for publishing, refer to PTC Advanced Print Publisher in Arbortext Styler.