xpdfrc.hlp

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              If set to  "no",  prevents  embedding  of  TrueType
              fonts  in  generated  PostScript.  This defaults to
              "yes".

       psEmbedCIDTrueTypeFonts yes | no
              If set to "no", prevents embedding of CID  TrueType
              fonts   in   generated  PostScript.   For  Level  3
              PostScript, this generates a CID  font,  for  lower
              levels it generates a non-CID composite font.

       psEmbedCIDPostScriptFonts yes | no
              If   set   to   "no",  prevents  embedding  of  CID
              PostScript  fonts  in  generated  PostScript.   For
              Level  3 PostScript, this generates a CID font, for
              lower levels it generates a non-CID composite font.

       psOPI yes | no
              If  set to "yes", generates PostScript OPI comments
              for all images and forms which  have  OPI  informa-
              tion.   This  option  is only available if the Xpdf
              tools  were  compiled  with  OPI   support.    This
              defaults to "no".

       psASCIIHex yes | no
              If  set to "yes", the ASCIIHexEncode filter will be
              used instead  of  ASCII85Encode  for  binary  data.
              This defaults to "no".

       psFile file-or-command
              Sets  the  default PostScript file or print command
              for xpdf.  Commands start  with  a  '|'  character;
              anything  else is a file.  If the file name or com-
              mand contains  spaces  it  must  be  quoted.   This
              defaults  to  unset, which tells xpdf to generate a
              name  of  the  form  <file>.ps  for  a   PDF   file
              <file>.pdf.

       fontDir dir
              See  the  description  above,  in the DISPLAY FONTS
              section.

2 EXT_CONTRO

       textEncoding encoding-name
              Sets  the  encoding  to use for text output.  (This
              can be overridden with the  "-enc"  switch  on  the
              command  line.)   The encoding-name must be defined
              with the  unicodeMap  command  (see  above).   This
              defaults to "Latin1".

       textEOL unix | dos | mac
              Sets  the  end-of-line  convention  to use for text
              output.  The options are:

                  unix = LF
                  dos  = CR+LF
                  mac  = CR

              (This can be overridden with the "-eol"  switch  on
              the  command  line.)  The default value is based on
              the OS where xpdf and pdftotext were built.

       textKeepTinyChars yes | no
              If set to "yes",  text  extraction  will  keep  all
              characters.   If  set to "no", text extraction will
              discard tiny  (smaller  than  3  point)  characters
              after  the first 20000 per page, avoiding extremely
              slow run times for PDF files that use special fonts
              to  do shading or cross-hatching.  This defaults to
              "no".

2 ISCELLANEOUS_SETTING

       initialZoom -5..5 | page | width
              Sets  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.

       t1libControl none | plain | low | high
              Sets 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).  This defaults to "low".

       freetypeControl none | plain | low | high
              Sets 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),  "low" or "high" (use anti-aliased
              fonts; these two are identical).  This defaults  to
              "low".

       urlCommand command
              Sets  the  command executed when you click on a URL
              link.  The string "%s" will be  replaced  with  the
              URL.  (See the example below.)  This has no default
              value.

       movieCommand command
              Sets the command executed when you click on a movie
              annotation.   The string "%s" will be replaced with
              the movie file name.  This has no default value.

       mapNumericCharNames yes | no
              If set to "yes", the Xpdf tools will attempt to map
              various  numeric  character names sometimes used in
              font subsets.  In some cases this leads  to  usable
              text,  and  in other cases it leads to gibberish --
              there is no way for Xpdf to tell.  This defaults to
              "yes".

       printCommands yes | no
              If  set  to  "yes", drawing commands are printed as
              they're  executed  (useful  for  debugging).   This
              defaults to "no".

       errQuiet yes | no
              If  set  to  "yes",  this  suppresses all error and
              warning messages from all of the Xpdf tools.   This
              defaults to "no".

2 EXAMPLES

       The following is a sample xpdfrc file.

       # from the Thai support package
       nameToUnicode /usr/local/share/xpdf/Thai.nameToUnicode

       # from the Japanese support package
       cidToUnicode Adobe-Japan1 /usr/local/share/xpdf/Adobe-Japan1.cidToUnicode
       unicodeMap   JISX0208     /usr/local/share/xpdf/JISX0208.unicodeMap
       cMapDir      Adobe-Japan1 /usr/local/share/xpdf/cmap/Adobe-Japan1

       # use an X server font for Times-Roman
       # (this is the built-in default)
       displayFontX Times-Roman "-*-times-medium-r-normal-*-%s-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" Latin1

       # use the Base-14 Type 1 fonts from ghostscript
       # (note that this overrides the displayFontX command above)
       displayFontT1 Times-Roman           /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021003l.pfb
       displayFontT1 Times-Italic          /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021023l.pfb
       displayFontT1 Times-Bold            /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021004l.pfb
       displayFontT1 Times-BoldItalic      /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021024l.pfb
       displayFontT1 Helvetica             /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019003l.pfb
       displayFontT1 Helvetica-Oblique     /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019023l.pfb
       displayFontT1 Helvetica-Bold        /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019004l.pfb
       displayFontT1 Helvetica-BoldOblique /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019024l.pfb
       displayFontT1 Courier               /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022003l.pfb
       displayFontT1 Courier-Oblique       /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022023l.pfb
       displayFontT1 Courier-Bold          /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022004l.pfb
       displayFontT1 Courier-BoldOblique   /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022024l.pfb
       displayFontT1 Symbol                /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/s050000l.pfb
       displayFontT1 ZapfDingbats          /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/d050000l.pfb

       # from the Japanese support package
       displayCIDFontX Adobe-Japan1 "-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-%s-*-*-*-*-*-jisx0208.1983-0" JISX0208

       # use the Bakoma Type 1 fonts
       # (this assumes they happen to be installed in /usr/local/fonts/bakoma)
       fontDir /usr/local/fonts/bakoma

       # set some PostScript options
       psPaperSize          letter
       psDuplex             no
       psLevel              level2
       psEmbedType1Fonts    yes
       psEmbedTrueTypeFonts yes
       psFile               "| lpr -Pprinter5"

       # assume that the PostScript printer has the Univers and
       # Univers-Bold fonts
       psFont Univers      Univers
       psFont Univers-Bold Univers-Bold

       # set the text output options
       textEncoding UTF-8

       textEOL      unix

       # misc options
       t1libControl    low
       freetypeControl low
       urlCommand      "netscape -remove 'openURL(%s)'"

2 FILES

       /usr/local/etc/xpdfrc
              This  is  the  default location for the system-wide
              configuration file.  Depending on build options, it
              may be placed elsewhere.

       $HOME/.xpdfrc
              This  is  the  user's  configuration  file.   If it
              exists, it will be read in place of the system-wide
              file.

2 AUTHOR

       The   Xpdf   software   and  documentation  are  copyright
       1996-2002 Glyph & Cog, LLC.

2 SEE_ALSO

       xpdf(1),     pdftops(1),     pdftotext(1),     pdfinfo(1),
       pdftopbm(1), pdfimages(1)
       http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/