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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>PDF Output (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="PDF Output (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="PDF Output (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Hardcopy.html" rel="up" title="Hardcopy"> <link href="Overfull-hboxes.html" rel="prev" title="Overfull hboxes"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="section" id="PDF-Output"> <div class="header"> <p> Previous: <a href="Overfull-hboxes.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Overfull “hboxes”</a>, Up: <a href="Hardcopy.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Formatting and Printing Hardcopy</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="PDF-Output-1"></span><h3 class="section">18.11 PDF Output</h3> <span id="index-PDF-output"></span> <span id="index-Output_002c-in-PDF"></span> <span id="index-pdftex"></span> <p>The simplest way to generate PDF output from Texinfo source is to run the convenience script <code>texi2pdf</code> (or <code>pdftexi2dvi</code>); this executes the <code>texi2dvi</code> script with the <samp>--pdf</samp> option (see <a href="Format-with-texi2dvi.html">Format with <code>texi2dvi</code></a>). If for some reason you want to process the document by hand, you can run the <code>pdftex</code> program instead of plain <code>tex</code>. That is, run ‘<samp>pdftex foo.texi</samp>’ instead of ‘<samp>tex foo.texi</samp>’. </p> <p><em>PDF</em> stands for ‘Portable Document Format’. It was invented by Adobe Systems some years ago for document interchange, based on their PostScript language. Related links: </p> <ul> <li> GNU GV, a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gv/">Ghostscript-based PDF reader</a>. (It can also preview PostScript documents.) </li><li> <code>xpdf</code>, a freely available standalone <a href="http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/">PDF reader</a> for the X window system. </li><li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format">PDF at Wikipedia</a>. </li></ul> <p>At present, Texinfo does not provide ‘<samp>@ifpdf</samp>’ or ‘<samp>@pdf</samp>’ commands as for the other output formats, since PDF documents contain many internal low-level offsets and cross-references that would be hard or impossible to specify at the Texinfo source level. </p> <p>PDF files require dedicated software to be displayed, unlike the plain ASCII formats (Info, HTML) that Texinfo supports. They also tend to be much larger than the DVI files output by TeX by default. Nevertheless, a PDF file does define an actual typeset document in a self-contained file, notably including all the fonts that are used, so it has its place. </p> </div> </body> </html>