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<h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Setting parameters with plug-ins</h1>
<div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc">To ensure that output is always generated with the same settings, you can create a plug-in to define a new
output format that automatically sets certain DITA-OT parameters.</p>
<p class="p">You might want to build a transformation type that ensures that certain DITA-OT parameters are used. For example,
consider the following scenario.</p>
<section class="section" id="ID__use-case-draft-pdfs"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Draft PDFs</h2>
<p class="p">You want to ensure that PDFs generated for internal review have the following characteristics:</p>
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<p class="p">Use company style sheets</p>
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<p class="p">Make draft comments visible to the reviewers, as they contain queries from the information developers</p>
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<p class="p">Print the file names of the graphics underneath figures, so that graphic artists can more quickly respond
to requested changes</p>
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<p class="p">To accomplish this, you can create a new plug-in. In the Ant script that defines the transformation type,
specify the DITA-OT parameters. For example, to render draft comments and art labels, add
<code class="keyword markupname xmlelement">&lt;property&gt;</code> elements to specify the DITA-OT parameters:</p>
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<pre class="pre codeblock language-xml normalize-space show-line-numbers show-whitespace"><code>&lt;?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?&gt;
&lt;project name="com.example.draft.pdf"&gt;
&lt;target name="dita2draft.pdf.init"&gt;
&lt;property name="customization.dir"
location="${dita.plugin.com.example.draft.pdf.dir}/cfg"/&gt;
<strong class="ph b">&lt;property name="args.draft" value="yes"/&gt;</strong>
<strong class="ph b">&lt;property name="args.artlbl" value="yes"/&gt;</strong>
&lt;/target&gt;
&lt;target name="dita2draft.pdf"
depends="dita2draft.pdf.init, dita2production.pdf, dita2pdf2"/&gt;
&lt;/project&gt;</code></pre>
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