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  <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">The <span class="ph filepath">local.properties</span> file</h1>
  
  
  
  <div class="body refbody"><p class="shortdesc">A <span class="ph filepath">local.properties</span> file in the root directory of the DITA-OT installation can be used
    to override the default values of various DITA-OT parameters.</p>
    <div class="example">
      <p class="p">For example, if you always use the same rendering engine to produce PDF output for all of your projects, you
        could create a <span class="ph filepath">local.properties</span> file in the root directory of your DITA-OT installation to
        set the <span class="keyword parmname">pdf.formatter</span> parameter and additional options for the XSL processor:</p>
      <pre class="pre codeblock language-properties normalize-space show-line-numbers show-whitespace"><code># Use RenderX XEP Engine for PDF output
pdf.formatter = xep

# Specify the user configuration file for RenderX
custom.xep.config = /path/to/custom.config</code></pre>
      <p class="p">Backslash “\” characters in .properties files must be escaped with a second backslash as “\\”. If you use
        Antenna House Formatter on a Windows system, for example, you would set the path to the command using a
        properties file entry like this:</p>
      <pre class="pre codeblock language-properties normalize-space show-line-numbers show-whitespace"><code># Use Antenna House Formatter for PDF output
pdf.formatter = ah

# Specify the path to the Antenna House Formatter command
axf.cmd=C:\\Program Files\\Antenna House\\AHFormatterV62</code></pre>
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      <div class="note note note_note"><span class="note__title">Note:</span> This file can only be used to set Ant property values that can be passed as argument parameters to the
        command line. The DITA-OT Java code does not read this file.</div>
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