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diff --git a/help/C/commandline.page b/help/C/commandline.page new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8a40aed6 --- /dev/null +++ b/help/C/commandline.page @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" + type="topic" style="task" + id="commandline"> + + <info> + <link type="guide" xref="index#advanced"/> + <title type="sort">Command line</title> + <desc>The <cmd>atril</cmd> command can open any number of files, at specific pages and in various modes.</desc> + <revision pkgversion="1.25" version="0.1" date="2021-03-13" status="final"/> + <credit type="author"> + <name>Phil Bull</name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + </credit> + <credit type="editor"> + <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + </credit> + <license> + <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p> + </license> + </info> + +<title>The command line</title> +<p> +To start<app>Atril</app> from the command line, type <cmd>atril</cmd>. You +can open a specific file by typing the filename after the atril command: +</p> + +<screen>atril file.pdf</screen> +<p> +You can open multiple files by typing the filenames after the atril command, separating the filenames by a space: +</p> +<screen>atril file1.pdf file2.pdf</screen> +<p> +Atril also supports the handling of files on the web. For example, after the atril command you can give the location of a file on the web: +</p> +<section id="open"> + <title>Opening a document at a specific page</title> + <p> + You can use<cmd>--page-label</cmd> switch to open a document at a + specific page. For example, to open a document to page 3, you would type: + </p> + <screen>atril --page-label=3 file.pdf</screen> + <p> + The page label should be in the same format as the page number displayed in + <app>Atril</app> header bar. + </p> +</section> +<section id="fullsreen"> + <title>Opening a document in fullscreen mode</title> + <screen>atril --fullscreen file.pdf</screen> +</section> +<section id="presentation"> + <title>Opening a document in presentation mode</title> + <screen>atril --presentation file.pdf</screen> +</section> +<section id="preview"> + <title>Opening a document in preview mode</title> + <screen>atril --preview file.pdf</screen> +</section> +</page> |