mutool create

The create command creates a new PDF file with the contents created from one or more input files containing graphics commands.

    mutool create [-o output.pdf] [-O options] page1.txt [page2.txt ...]

If no output file is specified, it will write the created PDF to "out.pdf" in the current directory.

The -O argument is a comma separated list of options for writing the PDF file:

decompress
  Decompress all object streams.
compress
  Compress all object streams.
compress-fonts
  Compress object streams for embedded fonts.
compress-images
  Compress object streams for images.
ascii
  Encode object streams using ASCII hex encoding.
pretty
  Pretty-print objects with indentation.
linearize
  Optimize document for progressive loading in viewers.
sanitize
  Clean up graphics command in content streams.
garbage[=compact|deduplicate]
  Garbage collect unused objects. With compact the cross-reference table will also be compacted. With deduplicate duplicate objects will also be recombined.

A page is created for each input file, with the contents of the file copied into the content stream. Special comments in the input files are parsed to define the page dimensions and font and image resources:

    %%MediaBox 0 0 500 800
    %%Rotate 90
    %%Font Tm Times-Roman
    %%Font Fn0 path/to/font/file.ttf
    %%Image Im0 path/to/image.png

An example input file:

    %%MediaBox 0 0 595 842
    %%Font F0 Times-Roman
    %%Image I0 logo/mupdf-simplified-logo.png

    % Draw an image.
    q
    480 0 0 480 50 250 cm
    /I0 Do
    Q

    % Draw a triangle.
    q
    1 0 0 rg
    50 50 m
    100 200 l
    200 50 l
    f
    Q

    % Show some text.
    q
    0 0 1 rg
    BT
    /F0 24 Tf
    50 760 Td
    (Hello, world!) Tj
    ET
    Q