1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 2<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="topic" style="task" id="commandline" xml:lang="wa"> 3 4 <info> 5 <link type="guide" xref="index#advanced"/> 6 <title type="sort">Command line</title> 7 <desc>The <cmd>atril</cmd> command can open any number of files, at specific pages and in various modes.</desc> 8 <revision pkgversion="1.25" version="0.1" date="2021-03-13" status="final"/> 9 <credit type="author"> 10 <name>Phil Bull</name> 11 <email>philbull@gmail.com</email> 12 </credit> 13 <credit type="editor"> 14 <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name> 15 <email>tiffany@antopolski.com</email> 16 </credit> 17 <license> 18 <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p> 19 </license> 20 </info> 21 22<title>The command line</title> 23<p> 24To start<app>Atril</app> from the command line, type <cmd>atril</cmd>. You 25can open a specific file by typing the filename after the atril command: 26</p> 27 28<screen>atril file.pdf</screen> 29<p> 30You can open multiple files by typing the filenames after the atril command, separating the filenames by a space: 31</p> 32<screen>atril file1.pdf file2.pdf</screen> 33<p> 34Atril 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: 35</p> 36<section id="open"> 37 <title>Opening a document at a specific page</title> 38 <p> 39 You can use<cmd>--page-label</cmd> switch to open a document at a 40 specific page. For example, to open a document to page 3, you would type: 41 </p> 42 <screen>atril --page-label=3 file.pdf</screen> 43 <p> 44 The page label should be in the same format as the page number displayed in 45 <app>Atril</app> header bar. 46 </p> 47</section> 48<section id="fullsreen"> 49 <title>Opening a document in fullscreen mode</title> 50 <screen>atril --fullscreen file.pdf</screen> 51</section> 52<section id="presentation"> 53 <title>Opening a document in presentation mode</title> 54 <screen>atril --presentation file.pdf</screen> 55</section> 56<section id="preview"> 57 <title>Opening a document in preview mode</title> 58 <screen>atril --preview file.pdf</screen> 59</section> 60</page> 61