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)