NAME

       pdfmom - produce PDF documents using the mom macro package for groff

SYNOPSIS

       pdfmom [-Tpdf] [groff-options] file ...

       pdfmom -Tps [pdfroff-options] [groff-options] file ...

       pdfmom -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 must usually be redirected to a  destination  file.   The
       size of the final PDF can be reduced by piping the output through ps2pdf(1).

       If  called  with the -Tpdf option (which is the default), pdfmom processes files using groff's native PDF
       driver, gropdf(1).  If -Tps is given, processing is passed over to pdfroff, which uses groff's PostScript
       driver.   In  either case, multiple runs of the source file are performed in order to satisfy any forward
       references in the document.

       pdfmom accepts all the same options as groff.  If -Tps is given, the options associated with pdfroff  are
       accepted as well.  Please note that when pdfmom calls pdfroff, the
              -mpdfmark -mom --no-toc
       options  are implied and should not be given on the command line.  Equally, it is not necessary to supply
       the -mom or -m mom options when -Tps is absent.

       PDF integration with the mom macros is discussed in full in the manual Producing PDFs with groff and mom,
       which was itself produced with pdfmom.

       If called with the -v option, pdfmom simply displays its version information and exits.

BUGS

       pdfmom sometimes issues warnings of the type
              ...: can't transparently output node at top level
       but this is more of an annoyance than a bug, and may safely be ignored.

AUTHORS

       pfdmom was written by Deri James ⟨deri@chuzzlewit.demon.co.uk⟩ and Peter Schaffter ⟨peter@schaffter.ca⟩.

SEE ALSO

       Producing  PDFs with groff and mom, by Deri James and Peter Schaffter; a copy is installed at /usr/share/
       doc/groff-base/pdf/mom-pdf.pdf.

       groff(1), gropdf(1), pdfroff(1), ps2pdf(1)