se/SE/stuff/dita-ot-3.3.3/docsrc/topics/dita2pdf.dita

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<concept id="dita2pdf" xml:lang="en-US">
  <title>PDF</title>
  <shortdesc>The <option>pdf</option> transformation generates output in Portable Document Format.</shortdesc>
  <prolog>
    <metadata>
      <keywords>
        <indexterm>PDF<index-see-also>transformations</index-see-also></indexterm>
        <indexterm>transformations<indexterm>PDF</indexterm></indexterm>
        <indexterm>PDF<indexterm>plug-in, history of</indexterm></indexterm>
        <indexterm>plug-ins<indexterm>dita2pdf</indexterm></indexterm>
        <indexterm>dita2pdf</indexterm>
      </keywords>
    </metadata>
  </prolog>
  <conbody>
    <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>To run the PDF transformation, set the <parmname>transtype</parmname> parameter to <option>pdf</option>, or pass
      the <parmname>--format</parmname>=<option>pdf</option> option to the <cmdname>dita</cmdname> command line.</p>
    <codeblock><filepath conref="../resources/conref-task.dita#ID/dita-cmd"/> <parmname>--input</parmname>=<varname>input-file</varname> <parmname>--format</parmname>=<option>pdf</option></codeblock>
    <p>where:</p>
    <ul>
      <li conref="../resources/conref-task.dita#ID/novice-variables-1"
        conrefend="../resources/conref-task.dita#ID/novice-variables-2"/>
    </ul>
  </conbody>
</concept>