pdftopbm

pdftopbm

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION CONFIGURATION FILE OPTIONS BUGS AUTHOR SEE ALSO

NAME

pdftopbm - Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable Bitmap (PBM) converter (version 1.00)

SYNOPSIS

pdftopbm [options PDF-file PBM-root

DESCRIPTION

Pdftopbm converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to black-and-white image files in Portable Bitmap (PBM) format.

Pdftopbm reads the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes one PBM file for each page, PBM-root-nnnnnn.pbm, where nnnnnn is the page number.

CONFIGURATION FILE

Pdftopbm reads a configuration file at startup. It first tries to find the user's private config file, /.xpdfrc. If that doesn't exist, it looks for a system-wide config file, typically /usr/local/etc/xpdfrc (but this location can be changed when pdftopbm is built). See the xpdfrc(5) man page for details.

OPTIONS

Many of the following options can be set with configuration file commands. These are listed in square brackets with the description of the corresponding command line option.

-f number

Specifies the first page to convert.

-l number

Specifies the last page to convert.

-r number

Specifies the resolution, in DPI. The default is 150 DPI.

-opw password

Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this will bypass all security restrictions.

-upw password

Specify the user password for the PDF file.

-q

Don't print any messages or errors. [unrenderable node]

-v

Print copyright and version information.

-h

Print usage information. (-help and --help are equivalent.)

BUGS

Pdftopbm uses X to do the rendering, so it is limited by the capabilities and performance of the X server. In particular, high-resolution output requires lots of memory. Also, non-scalable fonts will not look great.

AUTHOR

The pdftopbm software and documentation are copyright 1996-2002 Derek B. Noonburg (derekn@foolabs.com).

SEE ALSO

xpdf(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1), pdfinfo(1), pdffonts(1), pdfimages(1), xpdfrc(5)__ http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/__