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Customizing publishing

You can customize publishing in several ways: adding stylesheets to DITA-OT, modifying publish plugins in existing output formats or creating new output formats with their own DITA-OT stylesheets and post-process plugins sequence. This part focuses on post-process plugins.

The publishing process is based on a sequence of customizable plugins that transform exported content and then package it for upload to a database. It can then be used either for online presentation (Dynamic Delivery) or for file download (PDF, CHM...).

The plugins themselves can be customized, as well as their sequence in the specific publishing process for a given output format. The descriptions we provide for that customization are based on the Dynamic Delivery output format.