Man page 1 : thumbpdf

thumbpdf - generate thumbnail images for a PDF file created with pdftex

thumbpdf [ OPTION... ] PDF_FILE

thumbpdf is used to create thumbnail images of individual pages within a PDF (Portable Document Format) document.

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.

--help print usage

--(no)makepng make PNG thumbnail images (default: true)

--(no)makepdf generate new PDF file containing the thumbnails (default: true)

--(no)makedef create a TeX file for pdftex(1) to read in (default: true)

--(no)quiet suppress messages (default: false)

--(no)verbose verbose messages (default: false)

--(no)debug print debugging information while parsing (default: false)

--resolution res resolution for GhostScript step (default: 9)

--compress n \pdfcompresslevel for thumbpdf.pdf (0-9; default: 9)

--device | pngdev GhostScript PNG device; dev = `mono\', `gray\', `16\', `256\', `16m\' (default: `png16m\')

thumbnn.png PNG thumbnail images

thumbpdf.pdf PDF file containing thumbnail images

thumbpdf.tex A pdfTeX program to include the thumbnails file

thumbpdf.log pdfTeX log file

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

gs(1), pdftex(1).

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

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

Copyright \[co] 1999. thumbpdf is distributed under version 1, or (at your option) a later version of the LaTeX Project Public License.

thumbpdf was written by Heiko Oberdiek <>.

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <>, 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).