1roff2pdf(1) General Commands Manual roff2pdf(1)
2
3
4
6 roff2pdf - transform roff code into pdf mode
7
9 roff2pdf [ groffer_option ....] [--] [ filespec ....]
10
11 roff2pdf -h|--help
12
13 roff2pdf -v|--version
14
15 The options -v and --version print the version information of the pro‐
16 gram to standard output and exit. The options -h and --help print a
17 usage information of the program to standard output and stop the pro‐
18 gram instantly.
19
20 All other options are assumed to be groffer options. They are inter‐
21 nally passed to groffer. They override the behavior of the program.
22 The options are optional, they can be omitted.
23
24 The filespec arguments correspond to the filespec arguments of groffer.
25 So they are either the names of existing, readable files or - for stan‐
26 dard input, or the name of a man page or a groffer(1) man page search
27 pattern. If no filespec is specified standard input is assumed auto‐
28 matically.
29
31 roff2pdf transforms roff code into pdf mode. Print the result to stan‐
32 dard output.
33
34 There are more of these programs for generating other formats of roff
35 input.
36
37 roff2dvi(1)
38 is for dvi mode.
39
40 roff2html(1)
41 generates html output.
42
43 roff2ps(1)
44 prints PostScript format to standard output.
45
46 roff2text(1)
47 generates text output in the groff device latin1.
48
49 roff2x(1)
50 prints the output in the groff device X that is suitable for
51 programs like gxditview(1) or xditview(1).
52
54 groff(1), groffer(1), roff2dvi(1), roff2html(1), roff2ps(1),
55 roff2text(1), roff2x(1), gxditview(1).
56
58 Copyright © 2006-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59
60 This file is part of groffer, which is part of GNU groff, a free soft‐
61 ware project.
62
63 You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
64 General Public License version 2 (GPL2) as published by the Free Soft‐
65 ware Foundation.
66
67 The license text is available in the internet at
68 ⟨http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html⟩.
69
71 This file was written by Bernd Warken ⟨groff-bernd.warken-72@web.de⟩.
72
73
74
75Groff Version 1.22.3 25 July 2019 roff2pdf(1)