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Written by Running Xpdf
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Thursday, 14 January 2010 01:06 |
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Running Xpdf
To run xpdf, simply type:
xpdf file.pdf
To generate a PostScript file, hit the "print" button in xpdf, or run pdftops:
pdftops file.pdf
To generate a plain text file, run pdftotext:
pdftotext file.pdf
There are four additional utilities (which are fully described in their man pages):
pdfinfo -- dumps a PDF file's Info dictionary (plus some other useful information) pdffonts -- lists the fonts used in a PDF file along with various information for each font pdftoppm -- converts a PDF file to a series of PPM/PGM/PBM-format bitmaps pdfimages -- extracts the images from a PDF file
Command line options and many other details are described in the man pages (xpdf.1, etc.) and the VMS help files (xpdf.hlp, etc.).
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