PDFSHOW(1) General Commands Manual PDFSHOW(1)
NAME
pdfshow - show objects and streams that make up a PDF document
SYNOPSIS
pdfshow [options] file.pdf [xref] [trailer] [pages] [grep] [object-number...]
DESCRIPTION
pdfshow pretty prints the objects and streams specified on the command line. Streams are decoded and non-printable characters are repre-
sented with a period. Specify objects with their number. The special names xref, trailer and pages will respectively print the cross ref-
erence, trailer, and the object numbers for all pages. The special name grep will print all objects in the file in a compact one-line for-
mat suitable for piping to grep.
OPTIONS
-b Print streams as binary data and omit the object header.
-e Print streams in their original encoded form.
-p password
Use the specified password if the file is encrypted.
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.
July 19, 2010 PDFSHOW(1)
