nawalgupta / pdfpreview

Simple tool to generate thumbnails from PDF

pdfpreview

Simple tool to generate thumbnails from PDF. It renders pages from input PDF beginning with first page to last page (inclusive) into one image. Pages are fitted into size specified as box width x box height and placed next to each other. Up to box max x pages can be placed in one row.

See make-samples.sh or examples section for usage examples and their results.

Dependencies

• g++
• pkg-config
• libpoppler44 (maybe other versions will work, tested on 0.24.5 and 0.29.0)
• libpoppler-dev

Compiling

Run ./build.sh in directory with pdfpreview to compile it.

Usage

PDF file is read from stdin and thumbnail image is written to stdout. Errors and messages will appear in stderr.

pdfpreview <box width> <box height> <box max x> [first page] [last page] [verbose]

• box width, box height - Size of box in pixels, must be positive integer.
• box max x - Number of pages to place in one row, must be positive integer.
• first page - Optional, first page number to render. Pages are numbered from 1, which is default value.
• last page - Optional, last page number to render, inclusive. Defaults to number of pages in the document.
• verbose - Optional, prints usefull info to stderr. Use 1 to enable, 0 to disable (default)

Examples

All examples are generated from this PDF

pdfpreview 100 150 2

pdfpreview 100 150 4

pdfpreview 150 100 3

pdfpreview 100 150 3 3 7

pdfpreview 100 150 1 5 5

License

Licensed under GPL v2