thumbpdf - Man Page
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
See Also
Web page: <https://ctan.org/pkg/thumbpdf/>
Bugs
Submit reports via the bug url on the CTAN package page.
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.
This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It is now maintained as part of TeX Live.