mtx-pdf(1)

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💖 mtx-pdf — ConTeXt PDF Helpers 💖

okay bestie, welcome to mtx-pdf(1), aka the ConTeXt PDF Helpers page from section 1 of the manual. it's short, it's sweet, it's giving "little script that does a LOT" energy, and we're gonna go through every single crumb of it together. no skimming, no skipping, we eat the whole plate 🍽️✨

✨ NAME ✨

mtx-pdf — ConTeXt PDF Helpers

like. that's the whole name. it's a PDF helper for ConTeXt. lowkey iconic that it says the same thing twice but we move 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mtxrun --script pdf [ OPTIONS ...  ] [ FILENAMES ]

so the way you actually summon this thing is by calling mtxrun with --script pdf, and then you can throw OPTIONS ... at it and also FILENAMES. yes, plural. you can hand it more than one file, she's flexible like that 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

ConTeXt PDF Helpers

that's it. that's the description. short king behavior honestly. the page trusts you to just read the OPTIONS and figure out your life from there 😭

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

one bullet per option, all of them, in order, exactly as they are. buckle up:

  • --info — show some info about the given file 👀
  • --metadata — show metadata xml blob. raw blob, no filter, no nothing 🫧
  • --formdata — show formdata 📝
  • --pretty — replace newlines in metadata. so when the blob is looking a lil messy, this tidies the line breaks for you ✨
  • --fonts — show used fonts (and there's a --detail situation that goes with it) 🔤
  • --object — show object 📦
  • --links — show links 🔗
  • --highlights — show highlights 🖍️
  • --comments — show comments 💬
  • --sign — sign document (assumes signature template) ✍️
  • --verify — verify document ✅
  • --detail — print detail to the console 🖨️
  • --userdata — print userdata to the console 🧾
heads up bestie: that's 13 options and I did not merge a single one, promise. also --sign literally assumes you've got a signature template already, so don't come for me if you didn't set one up 🙈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

More information about ConTeXt and the tools that come with it can be found at:

so if you're lost, the mailing list is right there, the webpages are right there, and the wiki is right there. go be nosy, it's encouraged 🌈

aaaand that's the whole page, start to finish, no crumbs left 🍓

cute lil sign-off time: this was version 0.10, dated 01-01-2025, and it's the mtx-pdf(1) page from the ConTeXt PDF Helpers corner of the universe. go read your PDFs, bestie, you got this 💜✨🦋

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