---
name: "update-xpdfrc"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "xpdf-common"
version: "3.02-1.4+lenny4"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/update-xpdfrc"
---

# update-xpdfrc(8)

program to generate xpdf's configuration file

## NAME

update-xpdfrc - program to generate xpdf's configuration file

## SYNOPSIS

**update-xdfrc**

## DESCRIPTION

**update-xpdfrc** is a program used to generate part of the *[xpdfrc(5)](/xpdfrc/5.md)* file used  by xpdf. The generated configuration file contains a list of the configuration snippets provided by the xpdf-\* language packages.

You may edit the file */etc/xpdfrc* to configure xpdf. However, do not edit the generated file */etc/xpdf/includes*. It is updated whenever a language package is added or removed. You must include the file /etc/xpdf/includes in your xpdfrc to make use of this functionality.

The language support packages (xpdf-japanese etc) provide additional configuration files such as */etc/xpdf/xpdfrc-japanese*, which will be listed in the generated */etc/xpdf/includes*.

## FILES

```
/etc/xpdf/xpdfrc	main configuration file
/etc/xpdf/xpdf-*	additional configuration files
```

## SEE ALSO

[**xpdfrc**(5)](/xpdfrc/5.md), [**xpdf**(1)](/xpdf/1.md).

## AUTHOR

This manual page and the update-xpdfrc utility was written by Hamish Moffatt \<hamish@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).