pdftopbm1

Usage

Overview

Pdftopbm converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to black-and-white image files in Portable Bitmap (PBM) format.

Pdftopbm reads the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes one PBM file for each page, PBM-root-nnnnnn.pbm, where nnnnnn is the page number.

Configuration file

Pdftopbm 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 /usr/local/etc/xpdfrc (but this location can be changed when pdftopbm 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.

-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.)