NAME
pdftex, pdfinitex, pdfvirtex - PDF output from TeX
SYNOPSIS
pdftex [options] [commands]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The com-
plete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in
the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation.
pdfTeX is a version of TeX that can create PDF files as well
as DVI files.
The typical use of pdfTeX is with a pregenerated formats for
which PDF output has been enabled. The pdftex command uses
the equivalent of the plain TeX format, and the pdflatex
command uses the equivalent of the LaTeX format.
The pdfinitex and pdfvirtex commands are pdfTeX's analogues
to the initex and virtex commands. In this installation,
they are symlinks to the pdftex executable.
pdfTeX's handling of its command-line arguments is similar
to that of TeX.
pdfTeX is beta software.
OPTIONS
This version of pdfTeX understands the following command
line options.
--fmt format
Use format as the name of the format to be used,
instead of the name by which pdfTeX was called or a %&
line.
--help
Print help message and exit.
--ini
Be pdfinitex, for dumping formats; this is implicitly
true if the program is called as pdfinitex.
--interaction mode
Sets the interaction mode. The mode can be one of
batchmode, nonstopmode, scrollmode, and errorstopmode.
The meaning of these modes is the same as that of the
corresponding \commands.
--ipc
Send DVI or PDF output to a socket as well as the usual
output file. Whether this option is available is the
choice of the installer.
--ipc-start
As --ipc, and starts the server at the other end as
well. Whether this option is available is the choice
of the installer.
--kpathsea-debug bitmask
Sets path searching debugging flags according to the
bitmask. See the Kpathsea manual for details.
--maketex fmt
Enable mktexfmt, where fmt must be one of tex or tfm.
--no-maketex fmt
Disable mktexfmt, where fmt must be one of tex or tfm.
--output-comment string
Use string for the DVI file comment instead of the
date.
--progname name
Pretend to be program name. This affects both the for-
mat used and the search paths.
--shell-escape
Enable the \write18{command} construct. The command
can be any Bourne shell command. This construct is
normally disallowed for security reasons.
--translate-file tcxname
Use the tcxname translation table.
--version
Print version information and exit.
ENVIRONMENT
See the Kpathsearch library documentation (the `Path specif-
ications' node) for precise details of how the environment
variables are used. The kpsewhich utility can be used to
query the values of the variables.
One caveat: In most pdfTeX formats, you cannot use ~ in a
filename you give directly to pdfTeX, because ~ is an active
character, and hence is expanded, not taken as part of the
filename. Other programs, such as Metafont, do not have
this problem.
TEXMFOUTPUT
Normally, pdfTeX puts its output files in the current
directory. If any output file cannot be opened there,
it tries to open it in the directory specified in the
environment variable TEXMFOUTPUT. There is no default
value for that variable. For example, if you say tex
paper and the current directory is not writable, if
TEXMFOUTPUT has the value /tmp, pdfTeX attempts to
create /tmp/paper.log (and /tmp/paper.pdf, if any out-
put is produced.)
TEXINPUTS
Search path for \input and \openin files. This should
probably start with ``.'', so that user files are found
before system files. An empty path component will be
replaced with the paths defined in the texmf.cnf file.
For example, set TEXINPUTS to ".:/home/usr/tex:" to
prepend the current direcory and ``/home/user/tex'' to
the standard search path.
TEXFONTS
Search path for font metric (.tfm) files.
TEXFORMATS
Search path for format files.
TEXPOOL
search path for pdfinitex internal strings.
TEXEDIT
Command template for switching to editor. The default,
usually vi, is set when pdfTeX is compiled.
FILES
The location of the files mentioned below varies from system
to system. Use the kpsewhich utility to find their loca-
tions.
pdftex.pool
Encoded text of pdfTeX's messages.
texfonts.map
Filename mapping definitions.
*.tfm
Metric files for pdfTeX's fonts.
*.fmt
Predigested pdfTeX format (.fmt) files.
BUGS
This version of pdfTeX fails to trap arithmetic overflow
when dimensions are added or subtracted. Cases where this
occurs are rare, but when it does the generated DVI file
will be invalid. Whether a generated PDF file would be
usable is unknown.
pdfTeX is beta software. Subscribe to the pdftex mailing
list pdftex@tug.org if you intend to use it. This is a
majordomo list, to subscribe send a message containing sub-
scribe pdftex to majordomo@tug.org.
SEE ALSO
tex(1), mf(1), undump(1).
AUTHORS
The primary authors of pdfTeX are Han The Thanh, Petr Sojka,
and Jiri Zlatuska.
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