Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME pdfmom – produce PDF documents using the mom macro package for groff SYNOPSIS [ -Tpdf ] [groff-options] file … -Tps [pdfroff-options] [groff-options] file … -v DESCRIPTION pdfmom is a wrapper around groff(1) that facilitates the production of PDF documents from files formatted with the mom macros. pdfmom prints to the standard output, so output…
NAME pdftex – PDF output from TeX SYNOPSIS pdftex [options] [&format] [file|\commands] DESCRIPTION Run the pdfTeX typesetter on file, usually creating file.pdf. If the file argument has no extension, ".tex" will be appended to it. Instead of a filename, a set of pdfTeX commands can be given, the first of which must start with a…
NAME pdftex – PDF output from TeX SYNOPSIS pdftex [options] [&format] [file|\commands] DESCRIPTION Run the pdfTeX typesetter on file, usually creating file.pdf. If the file argument has no extension, ".tex" will be appended to it. Instead of a filename, a set of pdfTeX commands can be given, the first of which must start with a…
NAME latex-dev, pdflatex-dev, xelatex-dev, lualatex-dev, dvilualatex-dev, platex-dev, uplatex-dev – release candidate LaTeX testing SYNOPSIS latex-dev [first-line] DESCRIPTION These -dev executables are intended for testing upcoming LaTeX2e kernel changes. They correspond to new formats which have been tested by the LaTeX team for stability and usability. Thus, they are not arbitrary development snapshots; more like release…
NAME pdfjam – A shell script for manipulating PDF files SYNOPSIS pdfjam [OPTION [OPTION] …] [SRC [PAGESPEC] [SRC [PAGESPEC]] …] DESCRIPTION pdfjam provides a front end to most capabilities of the "pdfpages" package (by Andreas Matthias) of pdflatex. Detailed information can be found via "pdfjam –help", and also in the web page mentioned below ….
NAME pdfjadetex – PDF output from JadeTeX SYNOPSIS pdfjadetex [options] [commands] DESCRIPTION This manual page was derived from the manual page for pdfTeX and is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation. pdfjadeTeX is a version…
NAME pdfinfo – Portable Document Format (PDF) document information extractor (version 3.03) SYNOPSIS pdfinfo [options] [PDF-file] DESCRIPTION Pdfinfo prints the contents of the ‘Info’ dictionary (plus some other useful information) from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. If PDF-file is ‘-‘, it reads the PDF file from stdin. The ‘Info’ dictionary contains the following values:…
NAME pdfimages – Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor (version 3.03) SYNOPSIS pdfimages [options] PDF-file image-root DESCRIPTION Pdfimages saves images from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file as Portable Pixmap (PPM), Portable Bitmap (PBM), Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), JPEG, JPEG2000, or JBIG2 files. Pdfimages reads the PDF file PDF-file, scans…
NAME pdfgrep – search pdf files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS pdfgrep [OPTION…] PATTERN FILE… DESCRIPTION Search for PATTERN in each FILE. PATTERN is an extended regular expression. pdfgrep works much like grep, with one distinction: It operates on pages and not on lines. OPTIONS -i, –ignore-case Ignore case distinctions in both the PATTERN and…
NAME pdffonts – Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer (version 3.03) SYNOPSIS pdffonts [options] [PDF-file] DESCRIPTION Pdffonts lists the fonts used in a Portable Document Format (PDF) file along with various information for each font. If PDF-file is ‘-‘, it reads the PDF file from stdin. The following information is listed for each font: name…
NAME pdfetex – PDF output from e-TeX SYNOPSIS pdfetex [options] [&format] [file|\commands] DESCRIPTION pdfeTeX is another name for pdfTeX; they behave identically. See pdftex(1) for all information. SEE ALSO pdftex(1), http://pdftex.org, http://tug.org/web2c. Index
NAME pdfedit – Editor for PDF files SYNOPSIS pdfedit [file(s)] [–help] [–version] [-d (n)] [-console] [-script (filename)] [-run (filename)] [-eval (code)] [-s (filename)] [–] OPTIONS –help Print brief help about commandline options to STDOUT and exit –version Print version of editor to STDOUT and exit -d (n) Set verbosity of debugging messages reported by editor….
NAME pdfdetach – Portable Document Format (PDF) document embedded file extractor (version 3.03) SYNOPSIS pdfdetach [options] [PDF-file] DESCRIPTION Pdfdetach lists or extracts embedded files (attachments) from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. OPTIONS Some of the following options can be set with configuration file commands. These are listed in square brackets with the description of…
NAME pdftex – PDF output from TeX SYNOPSIS pdftex [options] [&format] [file|\commands] DESCRIPTION Run the pdfTeX typesetter on file, usually creating file.pdf. If the file argument has no extension, ".tex" will be appended to it. Instead of a filename, a set of pdfTeX commands can be given, the first of which must start with a…
NAME latex, pdflatex, xelatex, lualatex, dvilualatex, cslatex, pdfcslatex, platex, uplatex, lamed – structured text formatting and typesetting SYNOPSIS latex [first-line] DESCRIPTION This manual page is a mere skeleton. The LaTeX language is described in the book LaTeX – A Document Preparation System. LaTeX is a TeX macro package, not a modification to the TeX source…
NAME pdfcrack – Password recovery tool for PDF-files SYNOPSIS pdfcrack [ -f ] FILE [OPTION]… DESCRIPTION PDFCrack is a tool for recovering passwords and content from PDF-files. If aborted with Ctrl-C or by receiving a SIGINT signal, pdfcrack will automatically save current position. The position will be saved in a file called savedstate.sav in current…
NAME pdfopen, pdfclose – open or close a PDF file viewer SYNOPSIS pdfopen [ options ] [ –file ] file.pdf pdfclose [ –file ] file.pdf OPTIONS -h, –help, -? output help and exit. -v, –version, -V output the version number and exit. -p <n>, –page <n> when starting the viewer, display page <n> of the…
NAME pdfbook2 – transform pdf files into booklets for double-sided printing SYNOPSIS pdfbook2 [ options ] INPUT [ INPUT, …] DESCRIPTION Create print-ready PDF files from some INPUT PDF files for booklet printing. The resulting files need to be printed in landscape/long edge double sided printing. The default paper format depends on the locale and…
NAME pdfattach – Portable Document Format (PDF) document embedded file creator (version 3.03) SYNOPSIS pdfattach [options] input-PDF-file file-to-attach output-PDF-file DESCRIPTION Pdfattach adds a new embedded file (attachment) to an existing Portable Document Format (PDF) file. OPTIONS -replace Replace embedded file with same name (if it exists) -v Print copyright and version information. -h Print usage…
NAME pdfatfi – Help program for the LaTeX package attachfile2. SYNOPSIS pdfatfi <command> [<options>] <file[.atfi]>] DESCRIPTION Helper program for the LaTeX package attachfile2. This package also tries to get and add meta information data, such as file size, file date, checksum, …. The script pdfatfi.pl is provided for use with old versions of pdfTeX and…