---
name: "pdfdraw"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mupdf-tools"
version: "0.9-2+deb7u2"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pdfdraw"
---

# pdfdraw(1)

render PDF documents

## NAME

pdfdraw - render PDF documents

## SYNOPSIS

**pdfdraw** \[*options*\] input.pdf \[*pages\]*

## DESCRIPTION

**pdfdraw** will render a PDF document to image files. The supported image formats are: pgm, ppm, pam and png. Select the pages to be rendered by specifying a comma separated list of ranges and individual page numbers (for example: 1,5,10-15). In no pages are specified all the pages will be rendered.

## OPTIONS

- **-o output**

  The image format is deduced from the output file name. Embed %d in the name to indicate the page number (for example: "page%d.png").

- **-p password**

  Use the specified password if the file is encrypted.

- **-r resolution**

  Render the page at the specified resolution. The default resolution is 72 dpi.

- **-R angle**

  Rotate clockwise by given number of degrees.

- **-a**

  Save the alpha channel. The default behavior is to render each page with a white background. With this option, the page background is transparent. Only supported for pam and png output formats.

- **-g**

  Render in grayscale. The default is to render a full color RGB image. If the output format is pgm or ppm this option is ignored.

- **-m**

  Show timing information. Take the time it takes for each page to render and print a summary at the end.

- **-5**

  Print an MD5 checksum of the rendered image data for each page.

- **-t**

  Print the text contents of each page in UTF-8 encoding. Give the option twice to print detailed information about the location of each character in XML format.

- **-x**

  Print the display list used to render each page.

- **-A**

  Disable the use of accelerated functions.

- **-G gamma**

  Gamma correct the output image. Some typical values are 0.7 or 1.4 to thin or darken text rendering.

- **-I**

  Invert the output image colors.

- **pages**

  Comma separated list of ranges to render.

## SEE ALSO

[**mupdf**(1)](/mupdf/1.md), [**pdfclean**(1)](/pdfclean/1.md). [**pdfshow**(1)](/pdfshow/1.md).

## AUTHOR

MuPDF was written by Tor Andersson \<tor@ghostscript.com\>. MuPDF is Copyright 2006-2010 Artifex Software, Inc.