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4 pdftoppm - Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable
7 pdftoppm [options] PDF-file PPM-root
9 Pdftoppm converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to
10 color image files in Portable Pixmap (PPM) format,
11 grayscale image files in Portable Graymap (PGM) format, or
12 monochrome image files in Portable Bitmap (PBM) format.
14 Pdftoppm reads the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes one PPM
15 file for each page, PPM-root-nnnnnn.ppm, where nnnnnn is
22 Pdftoppm reads a configuration file at startup. It first
23 tries to find the user's private config file, ~/.xpdfrc.
24 If that doesn't exist, it looks for a system-wide config
25 file, typically /usr/local/etc/xpdfrc (but this location
26 can be changed when pdftoppm is built). See the xpdfrc(5)
33 Many of the following options can be set with configura-
34 tion file commands. These are listed in square brackets
35 with the description of the corresponding command line
39 Specifies the first page to convert.
42 Specifies the last page to convert.
45 Specifies the resolution, in DPI. The default is
48 -mono Generate a monochrome PBM file (instead of a color
51 -gray Generate a grayscale PGM file (instead of a color
55 Enable or disable t1lib (a Type 1 font rasterizer).
56 This defaults to "yes". [config file: enableT1lib]
59 Enable or disable FreeType (a TrueType / Type 1
60 font rasterizer). This defaults to "yes". [config
64 Enable or disable font anti-aliasing. This
65 defaults to "yes". [config file: antialias]
68 Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Pro-
69 viding this will bypass all security restrictions.
72 Specify the user password for the PDF file.
74 -q Don't print any messages or errors. [config file:
77 -v Print copyright and version information.
79 -h Print usage information. (-help and --help are
86 The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
90 1 Error opening a PDF file.
92 2 Error opening an output file.
94 3 Error related to PDF permissions.
102 The pdftoppm software and documentation are copyright
103 1996-2005 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
109 xpdf(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1), pdfinfo(1), pdf-
110 fonts(1), pdfimages(1), xpdfrc(5)
111 http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/