NAME
pdftoppm - Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable
Pixmap (PPM) converter (version 3.00)
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 the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes one PPM
file for each page, PPM-root-nnnnnn.ppm, where
nnnnnn is the page number.
CONFIGURATION FILE
Pdftoppm 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, /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc. See the (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.
- -mono
- Generate a monochrome PBM file (instead of a color PPM file).
- -gray
- Generate a grayscale PGM file (instead of a color PPM file).
- -t1lib yes | no
- Enable or disable t1lib (a Type 1 font rasterizer). This
defaults to "yes". [config file: enableT1lib]
- -freetype yes | no
- Enable or disable FreeType (a TrueType / Type 1 font
rasterizer). This defaults to "yes". [config file:
enableFreeType]
- -aa yes | no
- Enable or disable font anti-aliasing. This defaults to "yes".
[config file: antialias]
- -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.)
EXIT CODES
The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
- 0
- No error.
- 1
- Error opening a PDF file.
- 2
- Error opening an output file.
- 3
- Error related to PDF permissions.
- 99
- Other error.
AUTHOR
The pdftoppm software and documentation are
copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
SEE ALSO
xpdf(1),
pdftops(1),
pdftotext(1),
pdfinfo(1),
pdffonts(1),
pdfimages(1),
(5)