xpdftoppm(1)

pdftoppm(1)

General Commands Manual

pdftoppm(1)

NAME

pdftoppm - Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable Pixmap (PPM) converter (version 4.05)

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. If PPM-root is ´-', the image is sent to stdout (this is probably only useful when converting a single page).

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, typically /etc/xpdfrc (but this location can be changed when pdftoppm is built). See the xpdfrc(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 an RGB PPM file).
-gray: Generate a grayscale PGM file (instead of an RGB PPM file).
-cmyk: Generate a CMYK PAM file (instead of an RGB PPM file).
-rot angle: Rotate pages by 0 (the default), 90, 180, or 270 degrees.
-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]
-aaVector yes | no: Enable or disable vector anti-aliasing. This defaults to "yes". [config file: vectorAntialias]
-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.
-verbose: Print a status message (to stdout) before processing each page. [config file: printStatusInfo]
-q: Don't print any messages or errors. [config file: errQuiet]
-cfg config-file: Read config-file in place of ~/.xpdfrc or the system-wide config file.
-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.
98: Out of memory.
99: Other error.