pdftl help

Get help

Details

If a help argument is given, the remaining arguments are scanned for a keyword. This can be tag:<tagname>, or one of the operation names, or an option name, or a special help topic, or an alias. If a match is found, the help is printed. Tags are printed at the end of any help topics which have tags.

By default, colors are used if printing directly to the terminal, and usually not in other situations (e.g., if the output is redirected). If the environment variable FORCE_COLORS is set, then colors should appear in all cases.

The special help topic all is particularly interesting.

Examples

Get all help. This is nice if you set FORCE_COLORS=1 and pipe the output to less -R, with the complete command FORCE_COLORS=1 pdftl help all | less -R.

pdftl help all

Get help topics tagged with encryption

pdftl help tag:encryption

Gather all examples from the various help topics

pdftl help examples

Source: pdftl.cli.help

Read online: https://pdftl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/help/help.html

Type: HelpTopic