pdftopbm

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 01 Feb 2002
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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. [config file: errQuiet]
-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.

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