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.TH PDFTOHTML 1
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.SH NAME
pdftohtml \- program to convert PDF files into HTML, XML and PNG images
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pdftohtml
.I "[options] <PDF-file> [<HTML-file> <XML-file>]"
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
This manual page documents briefly the
.BR pdftohtml
command.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
.PP
.B pdftohtml
is a program that converts PDF documents into HTML. It generates its output in
the current working directory.
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options are included below.
.TP
.B \-h, \-help
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-f <int>
first page to print
.TP
.B \-l <int>
last page to print
.TP
.B \-q
do not print any messages or errors
.TP
.B \-v
print copyright and version info
.TP
.B \-p
exchange .pdf links with .html
.TP
.B \-c
generate complex output
.TP
.B \-s
generate single HTML that includes all pages
.TP
.B \-i
ignore images
.TP
.B \-noframes
generate no frames. Not supported in complex output mode.
.TP
.B \-stdout
use standard output
.TP
.B \-zoom <fp>
zoom the PDF document (default 1.5)
.TP
.B \-xml
output for XML post-processing
.TP
.B \-enc <string>
output text encoding name
.TP
.B \-opw <string>
owner password (for encrypted files)
.TP
.B \-upw <string>
user password (for encrypted files)
.TP
.B \-hidden
force hidden text extraction
.TP
.B \-dev
output device name for Ghostscript (png16m, jpeg etc).
Unless this option is specified, Splash will be used
.TP
.B \-fmt
image file format for Splash output (png or jpg).
If complex is selected, but neither \-fmt or \-dev are specified,
\-fmt png will be assumed
.TP
.B \-nomerge
do not merge paragraphs
.TP
.B \-nodrm
override document DRM settings
.TP
.B \-wbt <fp>
adjust the word break threshold percent. Default is 10.
Word break occurs when distance between two adjacent characters is
greater than this percent of character height.
.SH AUTHOR
Pdftohtml was developed by Gueorgui Ovtcharov and Rainer Dorsch. It is
based and benefits a lot from Derek Noonburg's xpdf package.
This manual page was written by Søren Boll Overgaard <boll@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR pdfdetach (1),
.BR pdffonts (1),
.BR pdfimages (1),
.BR pdfinfo (1),
.BR pdftocairo (1),
.BR pdftoppm (1),
.BR pdftops (1),
.BR pdftotext (1)