pdftex

Compile a PDF document from TeX source files. More information: https://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/.

• Compile a PDF document:

pdftex source.tex

• Compile a PDF document, specifying an output directory:

pdftex -output-directory=path/to/directory source.tex

• Compile a PDF document, exiting on each error:

pdftex -halt-on-error source.tex