Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME pdiff – produce a pretty comparison between files SYNOPSIS pdiff FILE1 FILE2 [— A2PS-OPTIONS…] DESCRIPTION Pretty print the differences between FILE1 and FILE2. OPTIONS -h, –help display this help and exit -v, –version display version information and exit -q, –quiet don’t print informational messages -l, –lines search for line differences (`diff’) -w, –words search…
NAME pdfxup – n-up tool with reduced margins SYNOPSIS pdfxup [OPTIONS] [FILE] DESCRIPTION pdfxup creates a PDF document where each page is obtained by combining several pages of a PDF file given as output. The important feature of pdfxup, compared to similar programs, is that it tries to compute the (global) bounding box of the…
NAME pdfunite – Portable Document Format (PDF) page merger SYNOPSIS pdfunite [options] PDF-sourcefile1..PDF-sourcefilen PDF-destfile DESCRIPTION pdfunite merges several PDF (Portable Document Format) files in order of their occurrence on command line to one PDF result file. Neither of the PDF-sourcefile1 to PDF-sourcefilen should be encrypted. OPTIONS -v Print copyright and version information. -h Print usage…
NAME pdftotext – Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.03) SYNOPSIS pdftotext [options] [PDF-file [text-file]] DESCRIPTION Pdftotext converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to plain text. Pdftotext reads the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes a text file, text-file. If text-file is not specified, pdftotext converts file.pdf to file.txt. If text-file is ‘-‘, the…
NAME pdftosrc – extract source file or stream from PDF file SYNOPSIS pdftosrc PDF-file [stream-object-number] DESCRIPTION If only PDF-file is given as argument, pdftosrc extracts the embedded source file from the first found stream object with /Type /SourceFile within the PDF-file and writes it to a file with the name /SourceName as defined in that…
NAME pdftops – Portable Document Format (PDF) to PostScript converter (version 3.03) SYNOPSIS pdftops [options] <PDF-file> [<PS-file>] DESCRIPTION Pdftops converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to PostScript so they can be printed. Pdftops reads the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes a PostScript file, PS-file. If PS-file is not specified, pdftops converts file.pdf to file.ps (or…
NAME pdftoppm – Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable Pixmap (PPM) converter (version 3.03) SYNOPSIS pdftoppm [options] PDF-file PPM-root DESCRIPTION Pdftoppm converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to color image files in Portable Pixmap (PPM) format, grayscale image files in Portable Graymap (PGM) format, or monochrome image files in Portable Bitmap (PBM) format. Pdftoppm reads…
NAME pdftopng – Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable Network Graphics (PNG) converter (version 3.04) SYNOPSIS pdftopng [options] PDF-file PNG-root DESCRIPTION Pdftopng converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to color, grayscale, or monochrome image files in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format. Pdftopng reads the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes one PNG file for each page,…
NAME pdftools – analyze PDF files, change image colors SYNOPSIS pdftools [ OPTION … ] <file> [ <file> … ] DESCRIPTION pdftools analyzes PDF files and changes image colors. It is used by the ConTeXt programs. The image-processing features are not documented here (since I don’t understand what they do). OPTIONS –help Print the available…
NAME pdftohtml – program to convert PDF files into HTML, XML and PNG images SYNOPSIS pdftohtml [options] <PDF-file> [<HTML-file> <XML-file>] DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the pdftohtml command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. pdftohtml is a program that converts…
NAME pdftocairo – Portable Document Format (PDF) to PNG/JPEG/TIFF/PDF/PS/EPS/SVG using cairo SYNOPSIS pdftocairo [options] PDF-file [output-file] DESCRIPTION pdftocairo converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files, using the cairo output device of the poppler PDF library, to any of the following output formats: • Portable Network Graphics (PNG) • JPEG Interchange Format (JPEG) • Tagged Image File…
NAME texi2dvi – convert Texinfo documents to DVI or PDF SYNOPSIS texi2dvi [,OPTION/]… ,FILE/… texi2pdf [,OPTION/]… ,FILE/… pdftexi2dvi [,OPTION/]… ,FILE/… DESCRIPTION Run each Texinfo or (La)TeX FILE through TeX in turn until all cross-references are resolved, building all indices. The directory containing each FILE is searched for included files. The suffix of FILE is used…
NAME pdftex – PDF output from TeX SYNOPSIS pdftex [options] [&format] [file|\commands] DESCRIPTION Run the pdfTeX typesetter on file, usually creating file.pdf. If the file argument has no extension, ".tex" will be appended to it. Instead of a filename, a set of pdfTeX commands can be given, the first of which must start with a…
NAME pdfsig – Portable Document Format (PDF) digital signatures tool SYNOPSIS pdfsig [options] [PDF-file] [Output-file] DESCRIPTION pdfsig verifies the digital signatures in a PDF document. It also displays the identity of each signer (commonName field and full distinguished name of the signer certificate), the time and date of the signature, the hash algorithm used for…
NAME PDF-Shuffler – Application for PDF Merging, Rearranging, and Splitting SYNOPSIS pdfshuffler [file1] [file2] … DESCRIPTION PDF-Shuffler is a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. In the current version, page rotation and cropping is also supported. PDF-Shuffler…
NAME pdfseparate – Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor SYNOPSIS pdfseparate [options] PDF-file PDF-page-pattern DESCRIPTION pdfseparate extract single pages from a Portable Document Format (PDF). pdfseparate reads the PDF file PDF-file, extracts one or more pages, and writes one PDF file for each page to PDF-page-pattern. PDF-page-pattern should contain %d (or any variant respecting printf…
NAME pdfroff – create PDF documents using groff SYNOPSIS [ -abcegilpstzCEGNRSUVXZ ] [ -d cs ] [ -f fam ] [ -F dir ] [ -I dir ] [ -L arg ] [ -m name ] [ -M dir ] [ -n num ] [ -o list ] [ -P arg ] [ -r cn…
NAME pdfoutline – add outlines (aka bookmarks) to PDF files SYNOPSIS pdfoutline input.pdf outlines.txt output.pdf DESCRIPTION pdfoutline reads input file given as first argument, adds outlines from text file given as second argument, and saves result to file with name given as third argument. File with outlines information should consist of lines in the following…
NAME pdfopt – Ghostscript PDF Optimizer SYNOPSIS pdfopt [ options ] input.pdf output.pdf DESCRIPTION pdfopt uses gs(1) to convert the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file "input.pdf" to a so-called optimized form in "output.pdf". Optimization puts the elements of the file into a more linear order and adds "hint" pointers, allowing Adobe’s Acrobat(TM) products to…
NAME pdfopen, pdfclose – open or close a PDF file viewer SYNOPSIS pdfopen [ options ] [ –file ] file.pdf pdfclose [ –file ] file.pdf OPTIONS -h, –help, -? output help and exit. -v, –version, -V output the version number and exit. -p <n>, –page <n> when starting the viewer, display page <n> of the…