Setting up StyleVision

Altova StyleVision runs on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. After downloading StyleVision from the Altova website, double-click the executable (.exe) file to run the setup program. The setup program will install StyleVision at the desired location. The Altova XSLT Engines (1.0 and 2.0) are built into StyleVision and are used for all internal transformations. You, therefore, do not need to install an XSLT Engine additionally to your StyleVision installation. You will, however, need to have the following components installed:

•	Internet Explorer 5.5 or later, for Authentic View and HTML Preview. Internet Explorer 6.0 and later has better XML support and is recommended.

•	Microsoft Word 2000 or later, for RTF Preview. Microsoft Word 2003 or later is recommended.

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An FO processor of your choice, for PDF Preview. For the XSLT transformation to XSL-FO, StyleVision offers an option for filtering out XSL-FO properties that are not supported by FOP 0.93, which is the Apache XML Project's FO processor. Using this filter (see screenshot below) would be useful only when the FOP processor is used. For some FO processors (including FOP), additional components, such as the Java Runtime Environment, may be required.

StyleVision can pass the XSL-FO document (generated by transforming the source document) to an FO processor of your choice. In the FO Processor input field of the Options dialog (Tools | Options | XSL-FO) (screenshot below), enter the location of the file that starts the FO processor. The FO processor you select is used to generate the PDF Preview as well as the PDF files created via the File | Save Generated Files command.

The FOP processor of the Apache XML Project is available free of charge as a convenient installer package at the Components Download page on the Altova website. This package downloads, installs, and configures FOP for use within your product interface. However, you still have to select the FOP executable (fop.bat) in the Options dialog. Alternatively, you could download FOP from the Apache Website. Note that FOP requires a Java Runtime Environment, downloadable free of charge from Sun's Developer Network Site.

After you have installed the FO processor, you should set the XSL-FO compliance level in the Options dialog (Tools | Options | XSL-FO).

Note:

Since conformance levels between any two FO processors can differ widely, and since the XSL-FO specification may be interpreted differently from processor to processor, the PDF produced by different processors from a single FO file could be different.

A command line utility, StyleVisionBatch.exe, is included in the installation. This utility can be used to call the file-generation functionality of StyleVision from the command line. StyleVisionBatch is located in the StyleVision application folder.