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NAME
dvipdfm - produce PDF files directly from DVI files
SYNOPSIS
dvipdfm [options] file[.dvi]
DESCRIPTION
In TeX Live, dvipdfm is another incarnation of dvipdfmx rather than a separate program. Compatibility is
attempted as best as possible. (The change was made due to duplicated security and configuration issues
arising repeatedly.) Please report problems with this dvipdfm to the dvipdfmx maintainers at dvipdfmx
(at) ktug.or.kr.
The program dvipdfm generates a PDF file from a DVI file. DVI files are the output format produced by
TeX. Output from groff can be converted to DVI format using grodvi.
The program dvipdfm recognizes several commonly used \special commands, which are extensions to the DVI
format. Specifically, it understands color specials, papersize specials, tpic specials (which allow it
to be used with pic), hypertex specials, and some PostScript specials. These extensions allow documents
to contain color, figures, and hyperlinks. The program tries to mimic the behavior of dvips so that many
macro packages produced for use with dvips will work with dvipdfm. Dvipdfm understands its own specific
\special commands to allow access to PDF features such as annotations and bookmarks.
For issues related to bounding boxes (and hence image sizes), please see extractbb(1).
OPTIONS
-c Ignore color \specials. The -c toggles a flag that disables color \special processing. Unless
changed in the configuration file, that flag is off, and color \specials are interpreted normally.
The -c option may be used to produce a black and white document from a document containing color TeX
\special commands.
-d Remove thumbnail images after including them. (See the -t option for more information.)
-e Toggle partial font embedding flag. If partial font embedding is off, embedded fonts are fully
embedded. The default, if not changed in the configuration file, is to embed only those glyphs
actually used in the document.
-f map_file
Set the name of the font map file to map_file. The format of the font map file is documented in the
Dvipdfm User's Manual.
-l Select landscape mode. In other words, exchange the x and y dimensions of the paper.
-m mag
Magnify the input document by mag.
-o name
Generate PDF output file having the name name. By default, the name of the output file is file.pdf.
-p paper
Select the papersize by name (e.g., letter, legal, ledger, tabloid, a3, a4, or a5 )
-r size
Set resolution of bitmapped fonts to size dots per inch. Bitmapped fonts are generated by the
Kpathsea library, which uses Metafont. Bitmapped fonts are included as type 3 fonts in the PDF
output file.
-s page_specifications
Select the pages of the DVI file to be converted. The page_specifications consists of a comma
separated list of page_ranges:
page_specifications := page_specification[,page_specifications]
where
page_specification := single_page|page_range
page_range := [first_page]-[last_page]
An empty first_page is implied to be the first page of the DVI file. An empty last_page is treated
as the last page of the DVI file.
Examples:
-s 1,3,5
includes pages 1, 3, and 5;
-s - includes all pages;
-s -,-
includes two copies of all pages in the DVI file; and
-s 1-10
includes the first ten pages of the DVI file.
-t Search for thumbnail images of each page in the directory named by the TMPDIR environment variable.
The thumbnail images must be named in a specific format. They must have the same base name as the
DVI file and they must have the page number as the extension to the file name. Dvipdfm does not
generate the thumbnails itself, but it is distributed with a wrapper program named dvipdft that does
so.
-v Increase verbosity. Results of the -v option are cumulative (e.g., -vv ) increases the verbosity by
two increments.
-x x_offset
Set the left margin to x_offset. The default left margin is 1.0in. The dimension may be specified
in any units understood by TeX (e.g., bpt, pt, in, cm )
-y y_offset
Set the top margin to y_offset. The default top margin is 1.0in. The dimension may be specified in
any units understood by TeX (e.g., bpt, pt, in, cm )
-z compression_level
Set the compression level to compression_level. Compressions levels range from 0 (no compression)
to 9 (maximum compression) and correspond to the values understood by zlib.
IMAGE BOUNDING BOXES
When including images with dvipdfm, their bounding boxes should be generated by running ebb, or extractbb
-m. The result will be in an .bb file.
When including images with dvipdfmx, their bounding boxes should be generated by running extractbb. The
result will be in an .xbb file; the xbb information is the same as for the PDF format.
ENVIRONMENT
Dvipdfm uses the kpathsea library for locating the files that it opens. Hence, the environment variables
documented in the Kpathsea library documentation influence dvipdfm.
Dvipdfm also reads the following environment variables:
TMP The directory to search for thumbnail images of each page.
FILES
The precise location of the following files is determined by the Kpathsea library configuration. The
location may be determined by using kpsewhich, e.g.,
kpsewhich -progname=dvipdfm -format='other text files' config
config
Startup options
t1fonts.map
The default font map file (this name may be changed in the config file).
*.tfm
TeX font metrics
*.vf TeX virtual font files
*.pfb
PostScript Type 1 font files
texmf.cnf
The Kpathsea library configuration file. The location of this file may be found by typing
kpsewhich texmf.cnf
SEE ALSO
dvipdft(1), tex(1), dvips(1), groff(1), grodvi(1), pic(1), extractbb(1), and the Kpathsea library info
documentation.
AUTHOR
Mark A. Wicks. But for the version in TeX Live, all bugs and other reports should go to the dvipdfmx
maintainers at dvipdfmx (at) ktug.or.kr.
20120420 28 April 2011 DVIPDFM(1)