NAME
pdftosrc - extract source file or stream from PDF file
SYNOPSIS
pdftosrc
PDF-file
stream-object-number
DESCRIPTION
If only
PDF-file
is given as argument,
pdftosrc
extracts the embedded source file
from the first found stream object
with /Type /SourceFile within the
PDF-file
and writes it to a file with the name /SourceName
as defined in that PDF stream object
(see application example below).
If both
PDF-file
and
stream-object-number
are given as arguments, and
stream-object-number
is positive,
pdftosrc
extracts and uncompresses the PDF stream of the object
given by its
stream-object-number
from the
PDF-file
and writes it to a file named
R PDF-file . stream-object-number
with the ending
.pdf
or
.PDF
stripped from the original
PDF-file
name.
A special case is related to XRef object streams that are part
of the PDF standard from PDF-1.5 onward:
If
stream-object-number
equals -1,
then
pdftosrc
decompresses the XRef stream from the PDF file and writes it
in human-readable PDF cross-reference table format to a file named
R PDF-file .xref
(these XRef streams can not be extracted just by giving their object number).
In any case
an existing file with the output file name will be overwritten.
OPTIONS
None.
FILES
Just the executable
R pdftosrc .
ENVIRONMENT
None.
DIAGNOSTICS
At success the exit code of
pdftosrc
is 0, else 1.
All messages go to stderr.
At program invocation,
pdftosrc
issues the current version number of the program
R xpdf ,
on which
pdftosrc
is based:
pdftosrc version 3.01
When
pdftosrc
was successful with the output file writing,
one of the following messages will be issued:
Source file extracted to
source-file-name
or
Stream object extracted to
R PDF-file . stream-object-number
or
Cross-reference table extracted to
R PDF-file .xref
When the object given by the
stream-object-number
does not contain a stream,
pdftosrc
issues the following error message:
Not a Stream object
When the
PDF-file
can't be opened, the error message is:
Error: Couldn't open file
'PDF-file'.
When
pdftosrc
encounters an invalid PDF file,
the error message (several lines) is:
Error: May not be a PDF file (continuing anyway)
(more lines)
Invalid PDF file
There are also more error messages from
pdftosrc
for various kinds of broken PDF files.
NOTES
An embedded source file will be written out unchanged,
i. e. it will not be uncompressed in this process.
Only the stream of the object will be written,
i. e. not the dictionary of that object.
Knowing which
stream-object-number
to query requires information about the PDF file
that has to be gained elsewhere,
e. g. by looking into the PDF file with an editor.
The stream extraction capabilities of
pdftosrc
(e. g. regarding understood PDF versions and filter types)
follow the capabilities of the underlying
xpdf
program version.
Currently the generation number of the stream object
is not supported.
The default value 0 (zero) is taken.
The wording
stream-object-number
has nothing to do with the `object streams' introduced
by the Adobe PDF Reference,
5th edition, version 1.6.
EXAMPLES
When using pdftex,
a source file can be embedded into some
PDF-file
by using pdftex primitives,
as illustrated by the following example:
\immediate\pdfobj
stream attr {/Type /SourceFile /SourceName (myfile.zip)}
file{myfile.zip}
\pdfcatalog{/SourceObject \the\pdflastobj\space 0 R}
Then this zip file can be extracted from the
PDF-file
by calling
pdftosrc
R PDF-file .
BUGS
Not all embedded source files will be extracted,
only the first found one.
Email bug reports to
pdftex@tug.org.
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
pdftosrc
written by Han The Thanh, using
xpdf
functionality from Derek Noonburg.
Man page written by Hartmut Henkel.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1996-2006 Han The Thanh, <thanh@pdftex.org>
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