.TH PDFSHOW 1 "April 15, 2010"
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.SH NAME
pdfshow \- PDF file debugging tool used to show PDF objects
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pdfshow
.RI [ options ]
.RI PDFfile
.RI [ xref ]
.RI [ trailer ]
.RI [ object-number ]
.B ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly describes the
.B pdfshow
command. The default action taken if only a PDF file name is given is to
print the PDF trailer. An alternative is to specify xref as an argument,
causing
.B pdfshow
to print the trailer section of the file. The most useful operation
however is to give one or more whitespace separated integers referring to
PDF objects, causing each to be printed.
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.SH OPTIONS
A description of each of the supported options is included below.
.TP
.B \-b
Causes pdfshow to print all object streams as raw binary data
.TP
.B \-p password
Uses the given password during decryption of an encrypted PDF file.
The password is tried both as user and owner password.
.TP
.B \-x
Enables decompression of object stream contents before printing them.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR mupdf (1),
.BR pdfclean (1).
.BR pdfdraw (1).
.SH AUTHOR
MuPDF was written by Tor Andersson <tor@ghostscript.com>.
MuPDF is Copyright 2006-2010 Artifex Software, Inc.
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This manual page was written by Sebastian Rasmussen <sebras@hotmail.com>.