! Generated automatically by mantohlp 1 xpdf xpdf - Portable Document Format (PDF) file viewer for X (version 0.7) xpdf [options] [PDF-file [page]] Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2. To run xpdf, simply type: xpdf file.pdf where file.pdf is your PDF file. The file name can be followed by a number specifying the page which should be displayed first, e.g.: xpdf file.pdf 18 You can also start xpdf without opening any files: xpdf 2 OPTIONS X resources are listed in square brackets with the corre- sponding option. -err Send error messages to /dev/tty instead of stderr (useful if xpdf is started from another applica- tion, e.g., netscape which otherwise pops up an annoying little window for every error). -z number Set the initial zoom factor (-5 .. 5). [xpdf.ini- tialZoom] -g geometry Set the initial window geometry. (-geometry is equivalent.) [xpdf.geometry] -remote name Start/contact xpdf remote server with specified name (see the REMOTE SERVER MODE section below). -raise Raise xpdf remote server window (with -remote only). -quit Kill xpdf remote server (with -remote only). -rgb number Set the size of largest RGB cube xpdf will try to allocate. The default is 5 (for a 5x5x5 cube); set to a smaller number to conserve color table entries. -ps PS-file Set the default file name for PostScript output. This can also be of the form '|command' to pipe the PostScript through a command. [xpdf.psFile] -cmd Print commands as they're executed (useful for debugging). -h Print usage information. (-help is equivalent.) Several other standard X options and resources will work as expected: -display display [xpdf.display] -fg color (-foreground is equivalent.) [xpdf.foreground] -bg color (-background is equivalent.) [xpdf.background] -font font (-fn is equivalent.) [xpdf.font] The color and font options only affect the user interface elements, not the PDF display (the 'paper'). 2 CONTROLS On-screen controls, at the bottom of the xpdf window left/right arrow buttons Move to the previous/next page. double left/right arrow buttons Move backward or forward by ten pages. 'Page' entry box Move to a specific page number. Click in the box to activate it, type the page number, then hit return. magnifying glass buttons Increase and decrease the resolution, i.e., zoom in and zoom out. print button Bring up a dialog for generating a PostScript file. The dialog has options to set the pages to be printed and the PostScript file name. The file name can be '-' for stdout or '|command' to pipe the PostScript through a command, e.g., '|lpr'. '?' button Bring up the 'about xpdf' window. 'Quit' button Quit xpdf. Menu Pressing the right mouse button will post a popup menu with the following commands: Open... Open a new PDF file via a file requester. Save PDF... Save the current file via a file requester. Find Find a text string. Rotate left Rotate the page 90 degrees counterclockwise. Rotate right Rotate the page 90 degrees clockwise. The two rotate commands are intended primarily for PDF files where the rotation isn't correctly specified in the file, but they're also useful if your X server doesn't support font rotation. Quit Quit xpdf. Text selection Dragging the mouse with the left button held down will highlight an arbitrary rectangle. Any text inside this rectangle will be copied to the X selection buffer. Links Clicking on a hyperlink will jump to the link's destina- tion. Currently, only links within PDF documents or to another PDF file are supported. Clicking on a URL link just prints the URL. Clicking on any other type of link (e.g., links to executable programs) prints an error mes- sage. Key bindings o Open a new PDF file via a file requester. f Find a text string. n Move to the next page. p Move to the previous page. or or Scroll down on the current page; if already at bot- tom, move to next page. or or or Scroll up on the current page; if already at top, move to previous page. Scroll to top of current page. Scroll to bottom of current page. arrows Scroll the current page. control-L Redraw the current page. q Quit xpdf. 2 WEB_BROWSERS If you want to run xpdf automatically from netscape or mosaic (and probably other browsers) when you click on a link to a PDF file, you need to edit (or create) the files .mime.types and .mailcap in your home directory. In .mime.types add the line: application/pdf pdf In .mailcap add the lines: # Use xpdf to view PDF files. application/pdf; xpdf -err %s Make sure that xpdf is on your executable search path. 2 REMOTE_SERVER_MODE Xpdf can be started in remote server mode by specifying a server name (in addition to the file name and page num- ber). For example: xpdf -remote myServer file.pdf If there is currently no xpdf running in server mode with the name 'myServer', a new xpdf window will be opened. If another command: xpdf -remote myServer another.pdf 9 is issued, a new copy of xpdf will not be started. Instead, the first xpdf (the server) will load another.pdf and display page nine. If the file name is the same: xpdf -remote myServer another.pdf 4 the xpdf server will simply display the specified page. The -raise option tells the server to raise its window; it can be specified with or without a file name and page num- ber. The -quit option tells the server to close its window and exit. 2 CONFIGURATION_FILE Xpdf will read a file called .xpdfrc from your home direc- tory (if it exists). This file can contain two types of entries. fontpath directory Look for Type 1 fonts in directory. Xpdf uses this only to get the font encoding. For display, the font must also be mapped with a fontmap entry. fontmap PDF-font X-font Map PDF-font (as referenced in a PDF file) to X- font, which should be a standard X font descriptor with '%s' in the pixel size position. For example, use: fontmap TimesCE-Roman -*-times-medium- r-*-*-%s-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2 to map the Central European (Latin-2) version of the Times-Roman font. This assumes that you've installed the appropriate X fonts (see mkfontdir(1)). Xpdf knows about the ISO8859-2 encoding, so you don't need a fontpath entry for these fonts. To use the Bakoma Type 1 fonts, do this: fontpath /home/derekn/fonts/bakoma fontmap cmb10 -bakoma-cmb10-medium-r-nor- mal--%s-*-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific fontmap cmbsy10 -bakoma-cmbsy10-medium-r-nor- mal--%s-*-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific etc... This assumes that the Type 1 font files are available in the directory /home/derekn/fonts/bakoma. 2 BUGS This is a beta release of xpdf, and there are still a bunch of PDF features which I have yet to implement. At this point, the biggest problem is that embedded fonts are not handled properly. 2 AUTHOR The xpdf software and documentation are copyright 1996, 1997 Derek B. Noonburg (derekn@ece.cmu.edu). 2 SEE_ALSO pdftops(1), pdftotext(1) http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/dn0o/xpdf/xpdf.html