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

gs(1), pdftex(1).

Web page: <https://ctan.org/pkg/thumbpdf/>

Bugs

Submit reports via the bug url on the CTAN package page.

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.

Info

8 March 2022 TeX Live