thumbpdf(1)

NAME
thumbpdf - 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.

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.