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 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.

SEE ALSO

       jadetex(1), tex(1), mf(1), undump(1).

AUTHORS

       The author of pdfjadeTeX is Sebastian Rahtz.

       This manual page was derived by Marcus Brinkmann for the Debian distribution from the pdfTeX manual  page
       from the teTeX distribution by Thomas Esser.

Marcus Brinkmann                                  12 July 1998                                     PDFJADETEX(1)