regarding Print Preview

[ptc-925201]

Hello Adepters,

When I run Print Preview, the Preview window always goes back to Page 1
of my document. Is there any way to set Print Preview so that the
Preview window opens to the last page in the document where I made a
change in my associated Epic file? I hope I stated that correctly.

Thanks,

[bibach]

Hi, Brian...
My gut response is to say that if you are making relatively small
changes in your document and then immediately doing a print preview to
see how it looks, then you're probably focusing too much on the
formatting of your result and not enough on the content. However, I'll
reserve any further lecturing on that point. 🙂
Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any solution for this issue provided
by Editor, out of the box. I can imagine some possible solutions
involving customizations, but I suspect they would involve some ACL code
and possibly some tweaks of your stylesheet to determine which printed
page contains the location of the last change (or the position of your
cursor when you invoke Print Preview, anyway), so that the preview
window can be instructed to jump there, after it opens.
If you're willing to do some development (or find someone who can)
and can provide some additional details about your environment (DTD,
stylesheet, etc.), I might be able to offer some suggestions and
pointers. Feel free to reply here or contact me directly.

Brandon Ibach
Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Cape Canaveral, FL
321-476-7051

[ptc-953397]

Brian,

Unfortunately I must agree with Brandon. You would have to do major
work on your control documents to get the preview to go directly to the
page you want.


V/R William C. (Bill) Horn

Northrop Grumman DMS

Warfare Architecture & Engineering

468 Viking Drive

Virginia Beach, VA 23452-7308

[LynnHales]

Brian,

Actually on rare occasions, print preview will stay on the last page you were looking at before you made any changes and did another print preview. For the most part, you are going to have to accept the fact you are back to page 1 (literally).

Now the best thing I can recommend is just before you start your print preview is look at what page you are currently on and then when the document is finished (or once the page you were looking at reverts to page 1) do a control-g, enter the page number and you will be taken to that page. Hopefully, the changes you made were not significant enough to throw the page count off too much.

Lynn


---- "Wirth wrote:
> Hello Adepters,
>
> When I run Print Preview, the Preview window always goes back to Page 1
> of my document. Is there any way to set Print Preview so that the
> Preview window opens to the last page in the document where I made a
> change in my associated Epic file? I hope I stated that correctly.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>

[AndyEsslinger]

Speaking of print-preview, I am testing 5.3 M020 prior to deployment and
the Edit->Synchronize Editor Position appears to not do anything anymore
(except occasionally generate an error message at the bottom of the
preview window (Cannot synchronize. Center of view is outside any page
boundary)). I would like to know if someone else with version 5.3 has
this or is it just my doctypes?

As for Brian's problem, I have no clue, but I'll bet he is not authoring
data. My money would be on developing a stylesheet and testing small
differences in input text vs output. I asked Arbortext to include
buttons for syncing the editor to the preview or the preview to the
editor just for stylesheet development. Arbortext thought it was a good
idea, but I've never seen any results.

-Andy
\ / Andy Esslinger F-22 Tech Order Data
_____-/\-_____ (817) 777 3047 LM Aero Box 748
\_\/_/ Fort Worth, TX 76101

[ptc-925831]

Take a look at the help information for Preview command.

preview [onepass | allpasses | noformat | quit | stop] [auto | force]

Pay special attention to the [auto | force] information. I think the "auto"
setting will give you what you want.

Lora


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[AndyEsslinger]

That would be help 9023 in version 5.1 and in 5.3. It seems to do
exactly as Brian wanted IF the document was previously formatted
allpasses. Otherwise I had to enter the "preview allpasses auto"
command a second time to get away from page 1.

Andy
\ / Andy Esslinger F-22 Tech Order Data
_____-/\-_____ (817) 777 3047 LM Aero Box 748
\_\/_/ Fort Worth, TX 76101

[ebenton]

When I use the FOSI panels for modifying the FOSI, and then do a print preview, it *sometimes* opens to the page on which a change was made. I think that if you already have Print Preview running, it will sometimes do this. If you shut down Print Preview and then re-compose, it will always go back to page 1. I always do a "one pass" Print Preview, but this behavior does not appear to be consistent, and I don't know how it works if you don't use the FOSI panels.
You might try leaving the print Preview window open while you make a change and then re-compose and see what happens. If you do this without using the FOSI panels, try using the panels and see what happens. Another factor that *may* affect this is that I usually just do the FOSI panel "apply changes" and do not save the FOSI until I am satisfied with the changes in Print Preview. I don't know if using the FOSI panels "apply changes" would affect this, but it might be a factor.

[ebenton]

When I say "making changes' I mean making changes to the FOSI. If I make a change that affects more than one page, it usually does not go back to any particular page on re-launching Print Preview, just page 1. If the FOSI change affects only one page, it will usually go back to that page. I don't think that making changes to document content will affect this behavior. You would need to modify some Arbortext control code to accomplish this.