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Overview on Stylesheet Modification when Publishing to PDF
A stylesheet defines the published output when you publish a service structure or parts list to a specific format.
The high-level process of publishing a service structure or parts list to PDF are as follows:
1. The content to be published is collected in a payload and sent to Arbortext Publishing Engine.
2. The Service application in Arbortext Publishing Engine transforms the payload contents to the Techinfo specialization of DITA, as follows:
Techinfomap.xsl converts the PublicationStructure or InformationStructure markup in the payload to a Techinfo map
Techinfo.xsl converts the PartsList markup in the payload to the Ipd topic type.
3. The Techinfo application in Arbortext Publishing Engine styles and publishes the contents to a PDF file.
Techinfo.style file creates the PDF output.
Customization Guidelines
You can customize the styling of a parts list or service structure for PDF publishing by modifying the following stylesheets:
Parameter Name
Stylesheet
File location
com.ptc.arbortext.pe.service/stylesheet
Techinfomap.xsl
/application/service/com.ptc.arbortext.service/doctypes/pubstruct/
com.ptc.arbortext.pe.service/partlistStylesheet
Techinfo.xsl
/application/service/com.ptc.arbortext.service/doctypes/partslist/
com.ptc.arbortext.pe/stylesheet
Techinfo.style
/application/techinfo/com.ptc.arbortext.techinfo/stylermodules/
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PTC recommends that you specify the name of your customized stylesheets using publishing rules rather than modifying the out of the box stylesheets.
The customized stylesheet can reference any attribute because by default the payload includes subtype attributes. To restrict attributes that are contained in the payload, add them to the publishable_attset.xml file.
For more information about styling and publishing rules, see About Service Publishing. See also Arbortext Styler Stylesheet Developer's Guide to APP code on the PTC Support site.