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KathleenReisler1-Visitor
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June 14, 2011
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Compose option in Arbortext

  • June 14, 2011
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I opened up an existingfile in Arbortext 5.4 and when I tried to Compose a pdf file, the COMPOSE option was greyed out. What do I have to do to create a .pdf?

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    Anonymous
    June 14, 2011
    Did you have the "Print Composer" module installed when you installed
    5.4? Even if you are using PE, this component has to be installed to
    perform composition requests.


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    ptc-9533431-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    June 14, 2011
    That will cause it to be greyed out, it still might not work if you don't
    have the licensing configured properly as well.

    > Did you have the "Print Composer" module installed when you installed
    > 5.4? Even if you are using PE, this component has to be installed to
    > perform composition requests.
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    KathleenReisler1-VisitorAuthor
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    June 14, 2011
    I currently have both 5.3 and 5.4 installed. Do I need to uninstall the 5.3 print composer module before installing the 5.4 print composer or can I have both of them going?
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    AndyEsslinger1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    June 14, 2011
    If you are using Adobe Acrobat Distiller and the Arbortext Print Composer feature, you must have the preference "usedistiller" set to "on" as shown in the top line of the following screen shot.. It defaults to "off".

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    Also, you need to have your Print Composed installed properly.

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    If you are using Styler and the PTC Direct to PDF I can't help you, except that you must have Styler licensed. The default Styler that comes "free" with the Arbortext distribution doesn't include the Direct PDF feature.

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    bibach1-Visitor
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    June 14, 2011
    You can have both 5.3 and 5.4 installed on the same system, with or
    without Print Compose on either, as long as they are installed in
    different locations. You just can't have them both running at the
    same time.

    Just to confirm, you are not trying to use a Publishing Engine
    instance, right? So, you have a properly-licensed copy of either
    Styler or Print Composer? You can check that the licensing is all
    correct through the menus in Editor by going to "Help", "About
    Arbortext Editor", "Session" and selecting the "Components" tab of the
    resulting dialog.

    -Brandon Smiley Happy


    On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Reisler, Kathleen (ES)
    <-> wrote:
    > I currently have both 5.3 and 5.4 installed. Do I need to uninstall the 5.3
    > print composer module before installing the 5.4 print composer or can I have
    > both of them going?
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    ebenton1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    June 15, 2011
    Even if you have Print Composer installed, you must still set usedistiller=on in order to "un-gray" the Compose-PDF menu selection.
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    bibach1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    June 15, 2011
    True. A license for just Print Compose still requires Adobe
    Distiller. However, a license for the full version of Styler removes
    that requirement, as it includes the Direct PDF feature.

    -Brandon 🙂


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    ptc-9539261-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    June 15, 2011
    And, with AE 5.4 you don't need a Styler license to compose direct to PDF. Just a print composer license.

    Dave
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