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<html lang="en"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><meta charset="UTF-8"><meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright 2020"><meta name="generator" content="DITA-OT"><meta name="description" content="The pdf transformation generates output in Portable Document Format."><meta name="keywords" content="PDF, transformations, transformations, PDF, plug-in, history of, plug-ins, dita2pdf"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/commonltr.css"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/dita-ot-doc.css"><title>PDF</title></head><body id="dita2pdf"><header role="banner"><div class="header">
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<p>DITA Open Toolkit</p>
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</div></header><nav role="toc"><ul><li><a href="../index.html">DITA Open Toolkit 3.6</a></li><li><a href="../release-notes/index.html">Release Notes</a></li><li><a href="../topics/installing-client.html">Installing DITA-OT</a></li><li><a href="../topics/building-output.html">Building output</a></li><li><a href="../topics/input-formats.html">Authoring formats</a></li><li><a href="../topics/output-formats.html">Output formats</a><ul><li class="active"><a href="../topics/dita2pdf.html">PDF</a></li><li><a href="../topics/dita2html5.html">HTML5</a></li><li><a href="../topics/dita2eclipsehelp.html">Eclipse help</a></li><li><a href="../topics/dita2htmlhelp.html">HTML Help</a></li><li><a href="../topics/dita2markdown.html">Markdown</a></li><li><a href="../topics/dita2dita.html">Normalized DITA</a></li><li><a href="../topics/dita2xhtml.html">XHTML</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="../parameters/index.html">Parameters</a></li><li><a href="../topics/html-customization.html">Customizing HTML</a></li><li><a href="../topics/pdf-customization.html">Customizing PDF</a></li><li><a href="../topics/adding-plugins.html">Adding plug-ins</a></li><li><a href="../topics/custom-plugins.html">Creating plug-ins</a></li><li><a href="../topics/troubleshooting-overview.html">Troubleshooting</a></li><li><a href="../reference/index.html">Reference</a></li><li><a href="../topics/dita-and-dita-ot-resources.html">Resources</a></li></ul></nav><main role="main"><article role="article" aria-labelledby="ariaid-title1">
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<h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">PDF</h1>
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<div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc">The <span class="keyword option">pdf</span> transformation generates output in Portable Document Format.</p>
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<p class="p">This transformation was originally created as a plug-in and maintained outside of the main toolkit code. It was
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created as a more robust alternative to the demo PDF transformation in the original toolkit, and thus was known as
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PDF2. The plug-in was bundled into the default toolkit distribution with release 1.4.3.</p>
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<p class="p">To run the PDF transformation, set the <span class="keyword parmname">transtype</span> parameter to <span class="keyword option">pdf</span>, or pass
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the <span class="keyword parmname">--format</span>=<span class="keyword option">pdf</span> option to the <span class="keyword cmdname">dita</span> command line.</p>
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<pre class="pre codeblock"><code><span class="ph filepath"><span class="keyword cmdname">dita</span></span> <span class="keyword parmname">--input</span>=<var class="keyword varname">input-file</var> <span class="keyword parmname">--format</span>=<span class="keyword option">pdf</span></code></pre>
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<p class="p">where:</p>
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<ul class="ul">
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<li class="li"><var class="keyword varname">input-file</var> is the DITA map or DITA file that you want to
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process.</li>
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<nav role="navigation" class="related-links"><div class="familylinks"><div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../topics/output-formats.html" title="DITA Open Toolkit ships with several core transformations that convert DITA content to different output formats. Additional formats are available from the plug-in registry at dita-ot.org/plugins.">DITA-OT transformations (output formats)</a></div></div><div class="linklist relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br><ul class="linklist"><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../topics/pdf2-creating-change-bars.html" title="You can generate revision bars in your PDF output by using the changebar and color attributes of the DITAVAL revprop element.">Generating revision bars</a></li></ul></div><div class="linklist relref"><strong>Related reference</strong><br><ul class="linklist"><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../parameters/parameters-base.html" title="Certain parameters apply to all transformations that DITA Open Toolkit supports.">Common parameters</a></li><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../parameters/parameters-pdf.html" title="Certain parameters are specific to the PDF transformation.">PDF parameters</a></li></ul></div></nav></article></main></body></html> |