debian man page for pdfshow

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)