PDFTEX

PDFTEX

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS ENVIRONMENT FILES BUGS SEE ALSO AUTHORS

NAME

pdfetex, pdfeinitex, pdfevirtex - PDF output from e-TeX

SYNOPSIS

pdfetex [''options''? [''commands''?

DESCRIPTION

This manual page 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.

pdfeTEX is a version of e-TEX that can create PDF files as well as DVI files.

The typical use of pdfeTEX is with a pregenerated formats for which PDF output has been enabled. The pdfetex command uses the equivalent of the plain e-TEX format, and the pdfelatex command uses the equivalent of the e-L A TEX format.

The pdfeinitex and pdfevirtex commands are pdfeTEX's analogues to the einitex and evirtex commands. In this installation, they are symlinks to the pdfetex executable.

pdfeTEX's handling of its command-line arguments is similar to that of e-TEX.

pdfeTEX is beta software.

OPTIONS

This version of pdfeTEX understands the following command line options.

--efmt format

Use format as the name of the format to be used, instead of the name by which pdfeTEX was called or a % line.

--file-line-error-style

Print error messages in the form file:line:error which is similar to the way many compilers format them.

--help

Print help message and exit.

--ini

Be pdfeinitex, for dumping formats; this is implicitly true if the program is called as pdfeinitex.

--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 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 pdfeTEX formats, you cannot use in a filename you give directly to pdfeTEX, because is an active character, and hence is expanded, not taken as part of the filename. Other programs, such as M ETAFONT , do not have this problem.

TEXMFOUTPUT

Normally, pdfeTEX 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 pdfetex paper and the current directory is not writable, if TEXMFOUTPUT has the value /tmp, pdfeTEX 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

TEXFONTS

Search path for font metric (.tfm) files.

TEXFORMATS

Search path for format files.

TEXPOOL

search path for pdfeinitex internal strings.

TEXEDIT

Command template for switching to editor. The default, usually vi, is set when pdfeTEX is compiled.

FILES

The location of the files mentioned below varies from system to system. Use the kpsewhich utility to find their locations.

pdfetex.pool

Encoded text of pdfeTEX's messages.

texfonts.map

Filename mapping definitions.

*.tfm

Metric files for pdfeTEX's fonts.

*.fmt

Predigested pdfeTEX format (.efmt) files.

BUGS

This version of pdfeTEX 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.

pdfeTEX 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 subscribe pdftex to majordomo@tug.org.

SEE ALSO

tex(1), mf(1), etex(1).

AUTHORS

The primary authors of pdfTEX are Han The Thanh, Petr Sojka, and Jiri Zlatuska.