# DITA to PDF (PDF2)

The DITA-OT transform to PDF 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 transform 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, and is run when setting the transform type to "pdf" or "pfd2".

Parent topic: Available DITA-OT Transforms