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Thursday, 14 January 2010 01:06

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.).