PDFSHOW(1)
NAME
pdfshow - PDF file debugging tool used to show PDF objects
SYNOPSIS
pdfshow [options] PDFfile [xref] [trailer] [object-number] ...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly describes the pdfshow command. The default
action taken if only a PDF file name is given is to print the PDF
trailer. An alternative is to specify xref as an argument, causing pdfshow to print the trailer section of the file. The most useful operation however is to give one or more whitespace separated integers
referring to PDF objects, causing each to be printed.
OPTIONS
A description of each of the supported options is included below.
-b Causes pdfshow to print all object streams as raw binary data
- -p password
- Uses the given password during decryption of an encrypted PDF file. The password is tried both as user and owner password.
- -x Enables decompression of object stream contents before printing
- them.
SEE ALSO
mupdf(1), pdfclean(1). pdfdraw(1).
AUTHOR
MuPDF was written by Tor Andersson <tor@ghostscript.com>. MuPDF is
Copyright 2006-2010 Artifex Software, Inc.
- This manual page was written by Sebastian Rasmussen <sebras@hotmail.com>.