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diff --git a/utils/pdfinfo.1 b/utils/pdfinfo.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..334520c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/utils/pdfinfo.1 @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@ +.\" Copyright 1999-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC +.TH pdfinfo 1 "22 January 2004" +.SH NAME +pdfinfo \- Portable Document Format (PDF) document information +extractor (version 3.00) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B pdfinfo +[options] +.RI [ PDF-file ] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B Pdfinfo +prints the contents of the \'Info' dictionary (plus some other useful +information) from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. +.PP +The \'Info' dictionary contains the following values: +.PP +.RS +title +.RE +.RS +subject +.RE +.RS +keywords +.RE +.RS +author +.RE +.RS +creator +.RE +.RS +producer +.RE +.RS +creation date +.RE +.RS +modification date +.RE +.PP +In addition, the following information is printed: +.PP +.RS +tagged (yes/no) +.RE +.RS +page count +.RE +.RS +encrypted flag (yes/no) +.RE +.RS +print and copy permissions (if encrypted) +.RE +.RS +page size +.RE +.RS +file size +.RE +.RS +linearized (yes/no) +.RE +.RS +PDF version +.RE +.RS +metadata (only if requested) +.RE +.SH CONFIGURATION FILE +Pdfinfo 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, /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc. See the +.BR xpdfrc (5) +man page for details. +.SH 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. +.TP +.BI \-f " number" +Specifies the first page to examine. If multiple pages are requested +using the "-f" and "-l" options, the size of each requested page (and, +optionally, the bounding boxes for each requested page) are printed. +Otherwise, only page one is examined. +.TP +.BI \-l " number" +Specifies the last page to examine. +.TP +.B \-box +Prints the page box bounding boxes: MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox, +TrimBox, and ArtBox. +.TP +.B \-meta +Prints document-level metadata. (This is the "Metadata" stream from +the PDF file's Catalog object.) +.TP +.BI \-enc " encoding-name" +Sets the encoding to use for text output. The +.I encoding\-name +must be defined with the unicodeMap command (see +.BR xpdfrc (5)). +This defaults to "Latin1" (which is a built-in encoding). +.RB "[config file: " textEncoding ] +.TP +.BI \-opw " password" +Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this will +bypass all security restrictions. +.TP +.BI \-upw " password" +Specify the user password for the PDF file. +.TP +.BI \-cfg " config-file" +Read +.I config-file +in place of ~/.xpdfrc or the system-wide config file. +.TP +.B \-v +Print copyright and version information. +.TP +.B \-h +Print usage information. +.RB ( \-help +and +.B \-\-help +are equivalent.) +.SH EXIT CODES +The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes: +.TP +0 +No error. +.TP +1 +Error opening a PDF file. +.TP +2 +Error opening an output file. +.TP +3 +Error related to PDF permissions. +.TP +99 +Other error. +.SH AUTHOR +The pdfinfo software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & +Cog, LLC. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR xpdf (1), +.BR pdftops (1), +.BR pdftotext (1), +.BR pdffonts (1), +.BR pdftoppm (1), +.BR pdfimages (1), +.BR xpdfrc (5) +.br +.B http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ |