pdfmom is a wrapper around groff(1) that facilitates the production of PDF documents from files formatted
with the mom macros.
pdfmom prints to the standard output, so output must usually be redirected to a destination file. The
size of the final PDF can be reduced by piping the output through ps2pdf(1).
If called with the -Tpdf option (which is the default), pdfmom processes files using groff's native PDF
driver, gropdf(1). If -Tps is given, processing is passed over to pdfroff, which uses groff's PostScript
driver. In either case, multiple runs of the source file are performed in order to satisfy any forward
references in the document.
pdfmom accepts all the same options as groff. If -Tps is given, the options associated with pdfroff are
accepted as well. When pdfmom calls pdfroff, the options “-mpdfmark-mom--no-toc” options are implied
and should not be given on the command line. Equally, it is not necessary to supply the -mom or -mmom
options when -Tps is absent.
PDF integration with the mom macros is discussed in full in the manual “Producing PDFs with groff and
mom”, which was itself produced with pdfmom.
If called with the -v or --version options, pdfmom displays its version information and exits.