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MUTOOL(1)		    General Commands Manual		     MUTOOL(1)

NAME
       mutool -	all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files

SYNOPSIS
       mutool <sub-command> [options]

DESCRIPTION
       mutool is a tool	based on MuPDF for dealing with	document files in
       various manners.	 There are several sub commands	available, as
       described below.

DRAW
       mutool draw [options] file [pages]

       The draw	command	will render a document to image	files, convert to
       another vector format, or extract the text content.

       The supported input document formats are: pdf, xps, cbz,	and epub.

       The supported output image formats are: pbm, pgm, ppm, pam, png,	pwg,
       pcl and ps.  The	supported output vector	formats	are: svg, pdf, and
       debug trace (as xml).  The supported output text	formats	are: plain
       text, html, and structured text (as xml).

       -p password
	      Use the specified	password if the	file is	encrypted.

       -o output
	      The  output  format is inferred from the output filename.	 Embed
	      %d in the	 name  to  indicate  the  page	number	(for  example:
	      "page%d.png").   Printf  modifiers  are  supported,  for example
	      "%03d".  If no output  is	 specified,  the  output  will	go  to
	      stdout.

       -F format
	      Enforce a	specific output	format.	Only necessary when outputting
	      to  stdout  since	 normally the output filename is used to infer
	      the output format.

       -R angle
	      Rotate clockwise by given	number of degrees.

       -r resolution
	      Render the  page	at  the	 specified  resolution.	  The  default
	      resolution is 72 dpi.

       -w width
	      Render  the  page	 at the	specified width	(or, if	the -r flag is
	      used, render with	a maximum width).

       -h height
	      Render the page at the specified height (or, if the -r  flag  is
	      used, render with	a maximum height).

       -f     Fit  exactly;  ignore  the  aspect ratio when matching specified
	      width/heights.

       -B bandheight
	      Render in	banded mode with each band no taller  than  the	 given
	      height.  This uses less memory during rendering. Only compatible
	      with pam,	pgm, ppm, pnm and png output formats. Banded rendering
	      and md5 checksumming may not be used at the same time.

       -W width
	      Page width in points for EPUB layout.

       -H height
	      Page height in points for	EPUB layout.

       -S size
	      Font size	in points for EPUB layout.

       -U filename
	      User CSS stylesheet for EPUB layout.

       -c colorspace
	      Render in	the specified colorspace.  Supported colorspaces  are:
	      mono,  gray,  grayalpha,	rgb,  rgbalpha,	cmyk, cmykalpha.  Some
	      abbreviations are	allowed: m, g, ga, rgba, cmyka.	  The  default
	      is chosen	based on the output format.

       -G gamma
	      Apply  gamma  correction.	 Some typical values are 0.7 or	1.4 to
	      thin or darken text rendering.

       -I     Invert colors.

       -s [mft5]
	      Show various bits	of information:	m for glyph  cache  and	 total
	      memory  usage,  f	 for page features such	as whether the page is
	      grayscale	or color, t for	 per  page  rendering  times  as  well
	      statistics,  and 5 for md5 checksums of rendered images that can
	      be used to check if rendering has	changed.

       -A bits
	      Specify how many bits of anti-aliasing to	use. The default is 8.

       -D     Disable use of display lists. May	cause  slowdowns,  but	should
	      reduce the amount	of memory used.

       -i     Ignore errors.

       -L     Low  memory  mode	(avoid caching objects by clearing cache after
	      each page).

       -P     Run interpretation and rendering at the same time.

       pages  Comma separated list of page numbers and	ranges	(for  example:
	      1,5,10-15,20-N),	where  the  character N	denotes	the last page.
	      If no pages are specified, then all pages	will be	rendered.

CLEAN
       mutool clean [options] input.pdf	[output.pdf] [pages]

       The clean command pretty	prints and rewrites the	syntax of a PDF	 file.
       It  can	be  used  to  repair  broken files, expand compressed streams,
       filter out a range of pages, etc.

       If no output file is specified,	it  will  write	 the  cleaned  PDF  to
       "out.pdf" in the	current	directory.

       -p password
	      Use the specified	password if the	file is	encrypted.

       -g     Garbage  collect	objects	 that  have  no	 references from other
	      objects.	Give the option	twice to also renumber all objects and
	      compact the cross	reference table.  Give it three	times to  also
	      merge  and  reuse	duplicate objects.  Give it four times to also
	      merge and	reuse duplicate	streams.

       -s     Rewrite content streams.

       -d     Decompress streams. This will make the output file  larger,  but
	      provides easy access for reading and editing the contents	with a
	      text editor.

       -l     Linearize	output.	Create a "Web Optimized" output	file.

       -i     Toggle  decompression  of	image streams. Use in conjunction with
	      -d to leave images compressed.

       -f     Toggle decompression of font streams. Use	in conjunction with -d
	      to leave fonts compressed.

       -a     ASCII Hex	encode binary streams. Use in conjunction with -d  and
	      -i  or  -f  to  ensure that although the images and/or fonts are
	      compressed, the resulting	file can still be  viewed  and	edited
	      with a text editor.

       -z     Deflate	uncompressed   streams.	  If  combined	with  -d,  any
	      decompressed streams will	be recompressed.  If combined with -a,
	      the streams will also be hex encoded after compression.

       pages  Comma separated list of page numbers and	ranges	(for  example:
	      1,5,10-15,20-N),	where  the  character N	denotes	the last page.
	      If no pages are specified, then all pages	will be	included.

EXTRACT
       mutool extract [options]	file.pdf [object numbers]

       The extract command can be used to extract images and font files	from a
       PDF.  If	no object numbers are given on the command  line,  all	images
       and fonts will be extracted.

       -p password
	      Use the specified	password if the	file is	encrypted.

       -r     Convert images to	RGB when extracting them.

INFO
       mutool info [options] file.pdf [pages]

       The  info  command lists	the resources used on each page	in a PDF file.
       The default is to list all resource types, but if one or	more flags are
       given, only the flagged types will be shown.

       -p password
	      Use the specified	password if the	file is	encrypted.

       -F     List fonts.

       -I     List images.

       -M     List page	dimensions.

       -S     List shadings.

       -P     List patterns.

       -X     List form	and postscript XObjects.

       pages  Comma separated list of page numbers and	ranges	(for  example:
	      1,5,10-15,20-N),	where  the  character N	denotes	the last page.
	      If no pages are specified, then all pages	will be	included.

CREATE
       mutool create [-o output.pdf] [options] page1.txt [page2.txt ...]

       The create command creates a new	PDF file  with	the  contents  created
       from one	or more	input files containing graphics	commands.

       -o output
	      If no output file	is specified, it will write the	created	PDF to
	      "out.pdf"	in the current directory.

       page.txt
	      A	 page is created for each input	file, with the contents	of the
	      file copied into the content stream.  Special  comments  in  the
	      input  files  are	 parsed	to define the page dimensions and font
	      and image	resources:

       %%MediaBox 0 0 500 800
       %%Rotate	90
       %%Font Tm Times-Roman
       %%Font Fn0 path/to/font/file.ttf
       %%Image Im0 path/to/image.png

       -O     Comma separated list of format specific output options:

	      decompress
	      Decompress all object streams.

	      compress
	      Compress all object streams.

	      compress-fonts
	      Compress object streams for embedded fonts.

	      compress-images
	      Compress object streams for images.

	      ascii
	      Encode object streams using ASCII	hex encoding.

	      pretty
	      Pretty-print objects with	indentation.

	      linearize
	      Optimize document	for progressive	loading	in viewers.

	      sanitize
	      Clean up graphics	command	in content streams.

	      garbage[=compact|deduplicate]
	      Garbage collect unused objects. With compact the cross-reference
	      table will also be compacted. With deduplicate duplicate objects
	      will also	be recombined.

PAGES
       mutool pages [options] input.pdf	[pages ...]

       The pages command dumps information about the size and  orientation  of
       pages within the	document.

       -p password
	      Use the specified	password if the	file is	encrypted.

       pages  Comma  separated	list  of page numbers and ranges (for example:
	      1,5,10-15,20-N), where the character N denotes  the  last	 page.
	      If no pages are specified, then all pages	will be	included.

POSTER
       mutool poster [options] input.pdf [output.pdf]

       The poster command splits each page into	tiles, and puts	each tile on a
       page  of	 its  own.  It's useful	for printing a large page onto smaller
       pieces of paper that can	then be	 glued	together  to  create  a	 large
       poster.

       -p password
	      Use the specified	password if the	file is	encrypted.

       -x factor
	      Split the	page into this many horizontal pieces.

       -y factor
	      Split the	page into this many vertical pieces.

       The output will have x times y number of	pages for each input page.

SHOW
       mutool show [options] file.pdf [object numbers ...]

       The  show  command  will	 print	the  specified	objects	and streams to
       stdout.	 Streams  are  decoded	and   non-printable   characters   are
       represented with	a period by default.

       -p password
	      Use the specified	password if the	file is	encrypted.

       -o file
	      Write output to file instead of stdout.

       -b     Print streams as binary data and omit the	object header.

       -e     Print streams in their original encoded (or compressed) form.

       Specify objects by number, or use one of	the following special names:

       'xref' Print the	cross reference	table.

       'trailer'
	      Print the	trailer	dictionary.

       'encrypt'
	      Print the	encryption dictionary.

       'pagetree'
	      List the object numbers for every	page.

       'grep' Print  all  the objects in the file in a compact one-line	format
	      suitable for piping to grep.

       'outline'
	      Print the	outline	(table of contents).

RUN
       mutool run script.js [arguments]

       Executes	a Javascript program which has access to most of the  features
       of  the	MuPDF  library.	 The  command  supports	ECMAScript 5 syntax in
       strict mode. All	of the MuPDF constructors and  function	 live  in  the
       global  object,	and the	command	line arguments are accessible from the
       global argv object.

       If invoke without any arguments,	it will	drop you into  an  interactive
       REPL (read-eval-print-loop). On the interactive prompt, if you prefix a
       line with an equal character it will automatically print	the results of
       the line.

       See   the   MuPDF   documentation  for  details	about  the  Javascript
       interfaces.

CONVERT
       mutool convert [options]	file [pages]

       The convert command is used to  convert	a  file	 from  one  format  to
       another.

       -p password
	      Use the specified	password if the	file is	encrypted.

       -A bits
	      Specify how many bits of anti-aliasing to	use. The default is 8.

       -W width
	      Page width in points for EPUB layout.

       -H height
	      Page height in points for	EPUB layout.

       -S size
	      Font size	in points for EPUB layout.

       -U filename
	      User CSS stylesheet for EPUB layout.

       -o output
	      The  output  format is inferred from the output filename.	 Embed
	      %d in the	 name  to  indicate  the  page	number	(for  example:
	      "page%d.png").   Printf  modifiers  are  supported,  for example
	      "%03d".  If no output  is	 specified,  the  output  will	go  to
	      stdout.

       -F format
	      Enforce a	specific output	format.	Only necessary when outputting
	      to  stdout  since	 normally the output filename is used to infer
	      the output format.

       -O     Comma separated list of format specific output options:

MERGE
       mutool merge [options] file1 [pages] file2 [pages] ...

       The merge command is used to pick out pages from	two or more files  and
       merge them in order into	a new output file.

       -o output
	      The output filename.

       -O     See mutool create	for details on this option.

VERSION
       mutool -v

       Shows the MuPDF version used to build mutool.

SEE ALSO
       mupdf(1),

AUTHOR
       MuPDF is	Copyright 2006-2017 Artifex Software, Inc.

			       January 12, 2016			     MUTOOL(1)

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