## 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

\fB--help\fP

print usage

\fB--(no)makepng\fP

make PNG thumbnail images (default: true)

\fB--(no)makepdf\fP

generate new PDF file containing the thumbnails (default: true)

\fB--(no)makedef\fP

create a TeX file for pdftex(1) to read in (default: true)

\fB--(no)quiet\fP

suppress messages (default: false)

\fB--(no)verbose\fP

verbose messages (default: false)

\fB--(no)debug\fP

print debugging information while parsing (default: false)

\fB--resolution\fP \fIres\fP

resolution for GhostScript step (default: 9)

\fB--compress\fP \fIn\fP

epdfcompresslevel for thumbpdf.pdf (0-9; default: 9)

\fB--device\fP | \fBpng\fP\fIdev\fP

GhostScript PNG device; dev = `mono´, `gray´, `16´, `256´, `16m´ (default: `png16m´)

## FILES

\fIthumb\fPnn\fI\&.png\fP

PNG thumbnail images

\fIthumbpdf\&.pdf\fP

PDF file containing thumbnail images

\fIthumbpdf\&.tex\fP

A pdfTeX program to include the thumbnails file

\fIthumbpdf\&.log\fP

pdfTeX log file

\fIthumbpdf\&.sty\fP

a LaTeX package to be included in files for which a user wants to generate thumbnails

## SEE ALSO

gs(1), pdftex(1).

Web page: <http://tug.org/teTeX/>

## BUGS

None known, but report any bugs found to the author.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright Â[co] 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 <oberdiek@ruf.uni-freiburg.de>.

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <c@eskimo.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It may be used by other distributions without contacting the author. Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this manual page should be directed to me (and not to the primary author).