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  3. <html lang="en-us"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><meta charset="UTF-8"><meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright 2016"><meta name="DC.rights.owner" content="(C) Copyright 2016"><meta name="DC.Type" content="concept"><meta name="description" content="The pdf (or pdf2) transformation generates PDF output."><meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="../user-guide/AvailableTransforms.html"><meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="../user-guide/pdf2-creating-change-bars.html"><meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="../parameters/parameters-pdf.html"><meta name="DC.Format" content="XHTML"><meta name="DC.Identifier" content="dita2pdf"><meta name="DC.Language" content="en-US"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/commonltr.css"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/dita-ot-doc.css"><title>DITA to PDF (PDF2)</title></head><body id="dita2pdf"><header role="banner"><div class="header">
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  4.   <p>DITA Open Toolkit</p>
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  6. </div></header><nav role="toc"><ul><li><a href="../index.html">DITA Open Toolkit 2.3</a></li><li><a href="../release-notes/index.html">Release Notes</a></li><li><a href="../getting-started/index.html">Getting Started</a></li><li><a href="../user-guide/index.html">User Guide</a><ul><li><a href="../user-guide/transforming-dita-content.html">Publishing DITA content</a></li><li><a href="../user-guide/AvailableTransforms.html">Output formats</a><ul><li><a href="../user-guide/dita2docbook.html">DITA to DocBook</a></li><li><a href="../user-guide/dita2eclipsecontent.html">DITA to Eclipse Content</a></li><li><a href="../user-guide/dita2eclipsehelp.html">DITA to Eclipse help</a></li><li><a href="../user-guide/dita2html5.html">DITA to HTML5</a></li><li><a href="../user-guide/dita2htmlhelp.html">DITA to HTML Help (CHM)</a></li><li><a href="../user-guide/dita2javahelp.html">DITA to Java Help</a></li><li><a href="../user-guide/dita2odt.html">DITA to ODT</a></li><li class="active"><a href="../user-guide/dita2pdf.html">DITA to PDF (PDF2)</a><ul><li><a href="../user-guide/pdf2-creating-change-bars.html">Generating revision bars</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="../user-guide/dita2wordrtf.html">DITA to RTF</a></li><li><a href="../user-guide/dita2tocjs.html">DITA to TocJS</a></li><li><a href="../user-guide/dita2troff.html">DITA to troff</a></li><li><a href="../user-guide/dita2xhtml.html">DITA to XHTML</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="../user-guide/DITA_spec-support.html">DITA specification support</a></li><li><a href="../user-guide/DITA-globalization.html">Globalizing DITA content</a></li><li><a href="../user-guide/troubleshooting-overview.html">Troubleshooting</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="../parameters/index.html">Parameter Reference</a></li><li><a href="../dev_ref/index.html">Developer Reference</a></li><li><a href="../user-guide/dita-and-dita-ot-resources.html">DITA Resources</a></li></ul></nav><main role="main"><article role="article" aria-labelledby="ariaid-title1">
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  7.   <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">DITA to PDF (PDF2)</h1>
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  9.   <div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc">The <span class="keyword option">pdf</span> (or <span class="keyword option">pdf2</span>) transformation generates PDF output.</p>
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  10.     <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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  11.       created as a more robust alternative to the demo PDF transformation in the original toolkit, and thus was known as
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  12.       PDF2. The plug-in was bundled into the default toolkit distribution with release 1.4.3.</p>
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  13.     <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
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  14.       pass the <span class="keyword option">-format pdf</span> option to the <span class="keyword cmdname">dita</span> command line.</p>
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  16. <nav role="navigation" class="related-links"><ul class="ullinks"><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../user-guide/pdf2-creating-change-bars.html">Generating revision bars</a></strong><br>If you use Antenna House Formatter or RenderX XEP, you can generate revision bars in your PDF output by     using the <code class="keyword markupname xmlatt">@changebar</code> attribute of the DITAVAL <code class="keyword markupname xmlelement">&lt;revprop&gt;</code> element. </li></ul><div class="familylinks"><div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../user-guide/AvailableTransforms.html" title="The DITA Open Toolkit ships with several core transformations that generate different output formats from DITA content. Each transformation represents an implementation of the processing that is defined by OASIS in the DITA specification.">DITA-OT transformations (output formats)</a></div></div><div class="linklist linklist relinfo relref"><strong>Related reference</strong><br><div><a class="link" href="../parameters/parameters-pdf.html" title="Certain parameters are specific to the PDF transformation.">PDF parameters</a></div></div></nav></article></main></body></html>
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