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 of TeX that can create
PDF
files as well as
DVI
files.
The typical use of pdfjadeTeX is with a pregenerated formats for which
PDF output has been enabled. The
pdfjadetex
command uses the equivalent of the plain JadeTeX format.
pdfjadeTeX's handling of its command-line arguments is similar to that of
LaTeX.
OPTIONS
This version of pdfjadeTeX 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
pdfjadeTeX 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 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.
--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 pdfjadeTeX formats, you cannot use ~ in a filename you
give directly to pdfjadeTeX, 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, pdfjadeTeX 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,
pdfjadeTeX 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.
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 pdfjadeTeX is compiled.
FILES
The location of the files mentioned below varies from system to
system. Use the
kpsewhich
utility to find their locations.
pdfjadetex.pool
Encoded text of pdfjadeTeX's messages.
texfonts.map
Filename mapping definitions.
*.tfm
Metric files for pdfjadeTeX's fonts.
*.fmt
Predigested pdfjadeTeX format (.fmt) files.
BUGS
This version of pdfjadeTeX 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.