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PDFTEX(1)							     PDFTEX(1)

NAME
       pdftex, pdfinitex, pdfvirtex - PDF output from TeX

SYNOPSIS
       pdftex [options] [commands]

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.	 The complete documen‐
       tation 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 ini‐
       tex 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 in‐
	      staller.

       --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  format  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 specifications'
       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 TEXMFOUT‐
	      PUT.  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 output 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 locations.

       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 dimen‐
       sions are added or subtracted.  Cases where this occurs are  rare,  but
       when  it does the generated DVI file will be invalid.  Whether a gener‐
       ated PDF file would be usable is unknown.

       pdfTeX is beta software.	 Subscribe to the  pdftex  mailing  list  pdf‐
       tex@tug.org if you intend to use it.  This is a majordomo list, to sub‐
       scribe send a message containing subscribe 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.

Web2C 7.3.1			 29 March 1999			     PDFTEX(1)
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