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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>
- <p class="p">This transformation was originally created as a plug-in and maintained outside of the main toolkit code. It was
- created as a more robust alternative to the demo PDF transformation in the original toolkit, and thus was known as
- PDF2. The plug-in was bundled into the default toolkit distribution with release 1.4.3.</p>
- <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
- 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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- <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="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 relinfo relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br><ul class="linklist"><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../topics/pdf2-creating-change-bars.html" title="If you use Antenna House Formatter or RenderX XEP, you can generate revision bars in your PDF output by using the changebar attribute of the DITAVAL revprop element.">Generating revision bars</a></li></ul></div><div class="linklist relinfo 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 are supported by the DITA Open Toolkit.">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>
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