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-
- xpdf - Portable Document Format (PDF) file viewer for X
- (version 0.6)
-
- 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
- UNIX or VMS and the X Window System.
-
- 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
-
- 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'.
-
- curved arrow buttons
- Rotate the page clockwise and counterclockwise.
- These 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.
-
- '?' button
- Bring up the 'about xpdf' window.
-
- 'Quit' button
- Quit xpdf.
-
- 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
- n Move to the next page.
-
- p Move to the previous page.
-
- <Space> or <PageDown> or <Next>
- Scroll down on the current page; if already at
-
- bottom, move to next page.
-
- <Backspace> or <Delete> or <PageUp> or <Previous>
- Scroll up on the current page; if already at top,
- move to previous page.
-
- <Home> Scroll to top of current page.
-
- <End> 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
- Derek B. Noonburg (derekn@ece.cmu.edu).
-
- 2 SEE_ALSO
-
- pdftops(1)
- http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/dn0o/xpdf/xpdf.html
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