


xpdf(1)                                                   xpdf(1)


NAME
       xpdf  -  Portable  Document Format (PDF) file viewer for X
       (version 0.91)

SYNOPSIS
       xpdf [options] [PDF-file [page]]

DESCRIPTION
       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

OPTIONS
       X  resources are listed in square brackets with the corre-
       sponding option.

       -z zoom
              Set the initial zoom factor.  A number  (-5  ..  5)
              specifies a zoom factor, where 0 means 72 dpi.  You
              may also specify 'page', to fit  the  page  to  the
              window  size,  or 'width', to fit the page width to
              the window width.  [xpdf.initialZoom]

       -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).

       -cmap  Install  a  private  colormap.   This is ignored on
              TrueColor visuals.  [xpdf.installCmap]




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       -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.   This  is  ignored with private colormaps
              and on TrueColor visuals.

       -papercolor color
              Set the "paper color", i.e., the background of  the
              page display.  This will not work too well with PDF
              files that do things like filling in  white  behind
              the text.  [xpdf.paperColor]

       -eucjp When copying text, convert Japanese text to EUC-JP.
              This is currently the only  option  for  converting
              Japanese  text  --  the only effect is to switch to
              7-bit ASCII for non-Japanese text, in order to  fit
              into  the  EUC-JP  encoding.   (This option is only
              available if pdftotext was compiled  with  Japanese
              support.)  [xpdf.eucjp]

       -t1lib font-type
              Set  the type of font rendering for t1lib (the Type
              1 rasterizer) to use.  Options  are  'none'  (don't
              use  t1lib  at  all), 'plain' (use non-anti-aliased
              fonts), 'low' or 'high'  (use  low-level  or  high-
              level anti-aliased fonts).  [xpdf.t1libControl]

       -freetype font-type
              Set  the  type  of font rendering for FreeType (the
              TrueType rasterizer) to use.   Options  are  'none'
              (don't use FreeType at all), 'plain' (use non-anti-
              aliased fonts), or 'aa' (use  anti-aliased  fonts).
              [xpdf.freeTypeControl]

       -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]

       -paperw size
              Set  the  paper  width,  in points.  [xpdf.psPaper-
              Width]

       -paperh size
              Set the paper height,  in  points.   [xpdf.psPaper-
              Height]

       -level1
              Generate   Level   1   PostScript.   The  resulting
              PostScript files will be significantly  larger  (if
              they  contain  images),  but  will print on Level 1
              printers.  This also converts all images  to  black
              and white.  [xpdf.psLevel1]



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       -upw password
              Specify the user password for the PDF file.

       -fullscreen
              Open xpdf in a full-screen mode, useful for presen-
              tations.  You may also want to specify '-bg  black'
              (or similar) with this.  (There is currently no way
              to switch between window and full-screen  modes  on
              the fly.)

       -cmd   Print  commands  as  they're  executed  (useful for
              debugging).

       -q     Don't print any messages or errors.

       -v     Print copyright and version information.

       -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').

       The following X resources do not have command line  option
       equivalents:

       xpdf.urlCommand
              Set  the  command  executed when you click on a URL
              link.  See  the  WEB  BROWSERS  section  below  for
              details.

       xpdf.japaneseFont
              Sets  the  X  font name pattern to use for Japanese
              text.  The default is:

              -*-fixed-medium-r-nor-
              mal-*-%s-*-*-*-*-*-jisx0208.1983-0

       xpdf.chineseFont
              Sets  the  X  font  name pattern to use for Chinese



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              text.  The default is:

              -*-fangsong                        ti-medium-r-nor-
              mal-*-%s-*-*-*-*-*-gb2312.1980-0

       xpdf.viKeys
              Enables  the  'h',  'l', 'k' and 'j' keys for left,
              right, up, and down scrolling.

       The following resources set the file names of the  Type  1
       fonts to use for the Base 14 fonts:

              xpdf.t1TimesRoman
              xpdf.t1TimesItalic
              xpdf.t1TimesBold
              xpdf.t1TimesBoldItalic
              xpdf.t1Helvetica
              xpdf.t1HelveticaOblique
              xpdf.t1HelveticaBold
              xpdf.t1HelveticaBoldOblique
              xpdf.t1Courier
              xpdf.t1CourierOblique
              xpdf.t1CourierBold
              xpdf.t1CourierBoldOblique
              xpdf.t1Symbol
              xpdf.t1ZapfDingbats

       If  t1lib  is  enabled,  these  Type  1 fonts will be used
       instead of X server fonts.

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.

       dashed left/right arrow buttons
              Move backward or forward along the history path.

       'Page' entry box
              Move to a specific page number.  Click in  the  box
              to  activate  it,  type  the  page number, then hit
              return.

       zoom popup menu
              Change the zoom factor (see the description of  the
              -z option above).

       binoculars button
              Find a text string.





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       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.

       link info
              The  space  between  the  '?' and 'Quit' buttons is
              used to show the URL or external file name when the
              mouse is over a link.

       '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.

       Reload Reload the current PDF file.  Note that  Xpdf  will
              reload  the file automatically (on a page change or
              redraw) if it has changed since it was last loaded.

       Save as...
              Save the current file via a file requester.

       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



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       destination.  A link to another  PDF  document  will  make
       xpdf load that document.  A 'launch' link to an executable
       program will display a dialog, and if you click 'ok', exe-
       cute the program.  URL links call an external command (see
       the WEB BROWSERS section below).


   Panning
       Dragging the mouse with the middle button held  down  pans
       the window.


   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.

       <Space> or <PageDown> or <Next>
              Scroll down on the current page; if already at bot-
              tom, 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.

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 -q %s




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       Make sure that xpdf is on your executable search path.

       When you click on a URL link in a PDF file, xpdf will exe-
       cute  the  command  specified   by   the   xpdf.urlCommand
       resource,  replacing  an  occurrence of '%s' with the URL.
       For example, to call  netscape  with  the  URL,  use  this
       resource setting:

              xpdf.urlCommand: netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)'

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.

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:



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              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.

BUGS
       No support for TrueType and Type 3 fonts.

AUTHOR
       The   xpdf   software   and  documentation  are  copyright
       1996-2000 Derek B. Noonburg (derekn@foolabs.com).

SEE ALSO
       pdftops(1), pdftotext(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftopbm(1),  pdfim-
       ages(1)
       http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/



























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