Options

--help

Displays usage message and exits.

--doc

Displays full documentation and exits.

--version

Prints the version number and exits

--output-file | -o

Specifies the filename for the PDF file. If this option is not set, a2pdf will output to STDOUT.

--title

Sets the title to be included in the page header. If unspecified, the title will default to the name of the file which is being converted, or to 'STDIN' if a2pdf is processing from standard input.

--timestamp

Boolean option - if set, the timestamp of the file to be converted will be included in the page header. This option is turned off by default.

--icon

Path to an image file which will be included as part of the header in the top left of each page.

Image files may be in any format supported by PDF::API2.

--icon-scale

Scaling value for icon images, default is 0.25.

--header | --noheader | --notitle

Prints a header consististing of the page title, and optionally the timestamp and an image icon at the top of each page. This option is enabled by default, use "--notitle" or "--noheader" to disable.

--footer | --nofooter | --page-numbers | --nopage-numbers

Adds the current page number to the bottom of each page. This is enabled by default, use "--nofooter" or "--nopage-numbers" to disable.

--line-numbers | --noline-numbers

By default, line numbers will be included in the output PDF file. To disable this behaviour, use the "--noline-numbers" option.

--perl-syntax | --noperl-syntax

Enables or disables (default is enabled) Perl syntax highlighting. This feature requires that the Perl::Tidy module is installed.

--page-width

--page-height

Page width and height in points. Default page size is 595 x 842 (A4).

--margins

--left-margin

--right-margin

--top-margin

--bottom-margin

Specifies the non-printable area of the page. The "--margin" option will set all margins to the same value, however individual margins may be altered with the appropriate options. Values must be given in points. The default value for the left and right margins is 48 points, and for the top and bottom margins is 60 points.

--font-face

Sets the font to use for the PDF file - currently this must be one of the PDF core fonts. The default font face is Courier.

--font-size

Font size in points, default value is 10.

--line-spacing

Line spacing in points, default value is the font size + 2.

--noformfeed

By default, any formfeed characters in the input stream will be processed and will act as expected, i.e. a new page will be started in the output PDF file. This can be disabled with the "--noformfeed" option which will cause all formfeed characters to be ignored.

Options may be given in any format recognised by the Getopt::Long Perl module, e.g. "--name=value" or "--name value". Option names may be abbreviated to their shortest unique value.

If the input filename is not given, then a2pdf will expect to receive input from STDIN.