thumbpdf

Section: teTeX (1)
Updated: September 2000
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NAME

thumbpdf - generate thumbnail images for a PDF file created with pdftex

SYNOPSIS

thumbpdf [ OPTION... ] PDF_FILE

DESCRIPTION

thumbpdf is used to create thumbnail images of individual pages within a PDF (Portable Document Format) document.

USAGE

First run pdftex(1) on your document to create a PDF file. Then run thumbpdf to generate the thumbnails, a PDF file containing the thumbnails, and a pdfTeX file to include the thumbnails in the PDF file. Finally, run pdftex(1) on your file again to create the final PDF file.

thumbpdf calls gs(1) to generate PNG images of the pages within PDF_FILE, and pdftex(1) to create a PDF file containing the thumbnail images.

OPTIONS

--help: print usage
--(no)makepng: make PNG thumbnail images (default: true)
--(no)makepdf: generate new PDF file containing the thumbnails (default: true)
--(no)makedef: create a TeX file for pdftex(1) to read in (default: true)
--(no)quiet: suppress messages (default: false)
--(no)verbose: verbose messages (default: false)
--(no)debug: print debugging information while parsing (default: false)
--resolution res: resolution for GhostScript step (default: 9)
--compress n: \pdfcompresslevel for thumbpdf.pdf (0-9; default: 9)
--device | pngdev: GhostScript PNG device; dev = `mono', `gray', `16', `256', `16m' (default: `png16m')

FILES

thumbnn.png: PNG thumbnail images
thumbpdf.pdf: PDF file containing thumbnail images
thumbpdf.tex: A pdfTeX program to include the thumbnails file
thumbpdf.log: pdfTeX log file
thumbpdf.sty: a LaTeX package to be included in files for which a user wants to generate thumbnails

BUGS

None known, but report any bugs found to the author.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright � 1999. thumbpdf is distributed under version 1, or (at your option) a later version of the LaTeX Project Public License.

AUTHOR

thumbpdf was written by Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@ruf.uni-freiburg.de>.

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <c@eskimo.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It may be used by other distributions without contacting the author. Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this manual page should be directed to me (and not to the primary author).