The typical use of pdfTeX is with a pregenerated formats for which PDF output has been enabled. The pdftex command uses the equivalent of the plain TeX format, and the pdflatex command uses the equivalent of the LaTeX format. The pdfinitex and pdfvirtex commands are pdfTeX's analogues to the initex and virtex commands. In this installation, they are symlinks to the pdftex executable. This version of pdfTeX understands the following command line options.
Print help message and exit.
The mode can be one of batchmode , nonstopmode , scrollmode , and errorstopmode . Whether this option is available is the choice of the installer. Whether this option is available is the choice of the installer. See the Kpathsea manual for details. Enable mktex fmt , where fmt must be one of tex or tfm .