thumbpdf(1)

💖 thumbpdf — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, welcome to thumbpdf(1), straight out of the General Commands Manual. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're making thumbnails.

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✨ NAME ✨

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

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

thumbpdf [ OPTION... ]  PDF_FILE

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically, thumbpdf is the girl who makes thumbnail images of every individual page inside a PDF (that's Portable Document Format, if you're new here 💅) document. she's giving tiny page previews. iconic behavior, honestly.

💜 USAGE 💜

here's the whole routine, step by step, no skipping:

1. First, run pdftex(1) on your document to create a PDF file.
2. 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.
3. Finally, run pdftex(1) on your file again to create the final PDF file.

periodt. that's the loop. 🫶

and for the lore: 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. she delegates, she doesn't do it all herself — main character energy but make it collaborative. 👑

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

• --help — print usage. the classic. she tells you how she works.
• --(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´)

ngl the --(no) ones are the cutest little toggle pattern — you flip the no in and you turn that thing off. lowkey obsessed. 💖

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• 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

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

gs(1), pdftex(1).

Web page: https://ctan.org/pkg/thumbpdf/

😭 BUGS 😭

Submit reports via the bug url on the CTAN package page. (not me, bestie — go tell the CTAN page, they got you. 🙈)

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright © 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.

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It is now maintained as part of TeX Live.

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and that's the whole thing, bestie 💅 this page is from TeX Live, dated 8 March 2022. go forth and make tiny pages. ✨🦋🧚💜