se/SE/schema/WPS_Functions/dita-ot/dita-ot-3.5/docsrc/parameters/local-properties-file.dita

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  <title>The <filepath>local.properties</filepath> file</title>
  <titlealts>
    <navtitle><filepath>local.properties</filepath></navtitle>
  </titlealts>
  <shortdesc>A <filepath>local.properties</filepath> file in the root directory of the DITA-OT installation can be used
    to override the default values of various DITA-OT parameters.</shortdesc>
  <prolog>
    <metadata>
      <keywords>
        <indexterm>files
          <indexterm>local.properties</indexterm></indexterm>
        <indexterm>local.properties file</indexterm>
        <indexterm>Windows</indexterm>
        <indexterm>RenderX
          <indexterm><filepath>local.properties</filepath></indexterm></indexterm>
        <indexterm>Antenna House
          <indexterm><filepath>local.properties</filepath></indexterm></indexterm>
        <indexterm>command line
          <indexterm><filepath>local.properties</filepath> file</indexterm></indexterm>
        <indexterm>Java
          <indexterm>local.properties file</indexterm></indexterm>
        <indexterm>PDF
          <indexterm>formatter</indexterm></indexterm>
        <indexterm>formatter
          <index-see-also>Apache FOP</index-see-also>
          <index-see-also>Antenna House</index-see-also>
          <index-see-also>RenderX</index-see-also></indexterm>
      </keywords>
    </metadata>
  </prolog>
  <refbody>
    <example>
      <p>For example, if you always use the same rendering engine to produce PDF output for all of your projects, you
        could create a <filepath>local.properties</filepath> file in the root directory of your DITA-OT installation to
        set the <parmname>pdf.formatter</parmname> parameter and additional options for the XSL processor:</p>
      <codeblock outputclass="language-properties normalize-space show-line-numbers show-whitespace"># Use RenderX XEP Engine for PDF output
pdf.formatter = xep

# Specify the user configuration file for RenderX
custom.xep.config = /path/to/custom.config</codeblock>
      <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>
      <codeblock outputclass="language-properties normalize-space show-line-numbers show-whitespace"># 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</codeblock>
    </example>
    <section>
      <note>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.</note>
    </section>
  </refbody>
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