dvipdfm
DVIPDFMX(1) General Commands Manual DVIPDFMX(1)
NAME
dvipdfmx, xdvipdfmx, dvipdfm - produce PDF files directly from DVI
files
SYNOPSIS
dvipdfmx or dvipdfm [options] file[.dvi]
DESCRIPTION
The program dvipdfmx generates a PDF file from a DVI file. DVI files
are the output produced by TeX. groff can also generate DVI files us-
ing grodvi(-Tdvi).
In TeX Live, dvipdfm is another incarnation of dvipdfmx rather than a
separate program. Compatibility is attempted as best as possible.
In addition, xdvipdfmx is another incarnation. It is used as the back
end for xetex(1) and is not intended to be invoked directly.
dvipdfmx recognizes several commonly used \special commands, which are
extensions to the DVI format. Specifically, it understands color spe-
cials, papersize specials, tpic specials (which allow it to be used
with pic), hypertex specials, and some PostScript specials. These ex-
tensions allow documents to contain color, figures, and hyperlinks.
The program tries to mimic the behavior of dvips where possible, so
that many macro packages produced for use with dvips will also work
with dvipdfmx. In addition, dvipdfmx understands its own specific
\special commands to allow access to PDF features such as annotations
and bookmarks.
As of December 2018, one such special specific to dvipdfmx is pdf:trai-
lerid, which specifies the /ID in the PDF trailer. It is used like
this (from the TeX level):
\special{pdf:trailerid [ (0123456789abcdef) (01234567890abcdef) ]}
That is, the special takes an array (the square brackets) of two
16-byte PDF strings (the parentheses). This is the same syntax as Lua-
TeX's \pdfvariable trailerid, while different from pdfTeX's \pdftrai-
lerid. It must appear on the first output page, otherwise it is ig-
nored.
Unrecognized specials will generate warning messages. Packages that may
need a dvipdfm or dvipdfmx driver option include geometry, hyperref,
bookmark, graphicx, and xcolor.
For issues related to bounding boxes (and hence image sizes), see ex-
tractbb(1).
OPTIONS
Unlike with many other programs, argument values must be separated from
option names by a space, not an = sign; option names cannot be abbrevi-
ated; and - and -- cannot be used interchangeably.
-c Ignore (or accept) color \specials. By default, color \specials
are interpreted normally (changeable in the configuration file).
The -c option may be used to produce a black and white document
from a document containing color TeX \special commands.
--dvipdfm
Enable dvipdfm emulation mode. This is the default if the exe-
cutable name is `dvipdfm'.
-d number
Specify the number of decimal digits in the PDF output; must be
between 0 and 5, default is 2.
-e Ignored, for (semi-)compatibility with dvipdfm.
-f map_file
Read the font map file given by map_file. The default map file in
TeX Live is pdftex.map, as defined in the configuration file.
--help Show a help message and exit successfully.
-l Select landscape mode. In other words, exchange the x and y di-
mensions of the paper.
-m mag
Magnify the input document by mag.
-o filename
Set the PDF output file name; use `-' for stdout. By default, the
name of the output file is derived from the input, that is,
file.pdf.
-p paper
Select the papersize by name (e.g., letter, legal, ledger,
tabloid, a3, a4, or a5 )
-q Quiet mode.
-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. Default is 600.
-s page_specifications
Select the pages of the DVI file to be processed; default is `-',
meaning all pages. 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 treated as the first page of the DVI file,
and 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: the same base name as the DVI file and
the page number as the extension to the file name. dvipdfmx does
not generate such thumbnails itself, but it is distributed with a
wrapper program named dvipdft that does so.
--version
Show a help message and exit successfully.
-v Increase verbosity. Results of the -v option are cumulative
(e.g., -vv increases the verbosity by two increments). Maximum
verbosity is four.
--kpathsea-debug number
Have Kpathsea output debugging information; `-1' for everything
(voluminous).
-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., bp, 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 number
Set the compression level to compression_level. Compression lev-
els range from 0 (no compression) to 9 (maximum compression) and
correspond to the values understood by zlib; default is 9.
-C number
Miscellaneous option flags; see the --help output for details.
-D template
PostScript to PDF conversion command line template; the default is
taken from the configuration file, which also gives all the de-
tails and mentions several possibilities.
-E Always try to embed fonts, ignoring licensing flags, etc.
-I number
Image cache life in hours; default is -2, meaning to not cache im-
ages at all. A value of -1 means to erase all old images and also
new images; 0 means to erase all old images but leave new images.
-K number
Encryption key length; default 40.
-M Process MetaPost PostScript output.
-O number
Set maximum depth of open bookmark items; default 0.
-P number
Set permission flags for PDF encryption; default 0x003C.
-S Enable PDF encryption.
-V number
Set PDF minor version; default 5 (from the configuration file).
IMAGE BOUNDING BOXES
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
dvipdfmx uses the kpathsea library for locating the files that it
opens. Hence, the environment variables documented in the Kpathsea li-
brary documentation influence dvipdfmx. It also uses the value of the
environment variable TMPDIR as the directory to search for thumbnail
images of each page.
FILES
The precise location of the following files is determined by the Kpath-
sea library configuration. The location may be determined by using
kpsewhich, e.g.,
kpsewhich -progname=dvipdfmx -format='other text files' dvipdfmx.cfg
dvipdfmx.cfg
Default configuration file
pdftex.map
The default font map file (this 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), extractbb(1),
tex(1), luatex(1), xetex(1), dvips(1),
groff(1), grodvi(1), pic(1), the Kpathsea library Info documentation
(http://tug.org/kpathsea), and the Dvipdfmx User's Manual (in the dis-
tribution).
AUTHOR
Primarily Mark A. Wicks; dvipdfmx extensions primarily by Jin-Hwan Cho,
Shunsaku Hirata, and Matthias Franz. For the version in TeX Live, all
bugs and other reports should go to the dvipdfmx maintainers at tex-k
(at) tug.org. This man page edited for TeX Live by Bob Tennent and
others. This man page is public domain.
24 December 2018 DVIPDFMX(1)
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