pdf2svg (1)

Leading comments

                                     Hey, EMACS: 
                                     Hey, vim:   set ft=nroff:
First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man1/pdf2svg.1".)

NAME

pdf2svg - PDF to SVG convertor

SYNOPSIS

pdf2svg pdffile svgfile [page number]

DESCRIPTION

pdf2svg is a tiny command-line utility using Cairo and Poppler to convert PDF documents into SVG files. Multi-page PDF can be split up to one SVG per page by passing a file naming specification.

The program does not follow the usual GNU command line syntax.

The first argument is the source PDF file, the second argument is the filename of the output SVG file (or a specification, see below for details).

OPTIONS

The third parameter is optional and serves as a page selector. If omitted it defaults to the first page of the passed PDF. If passed it must be a valid page label (typically it is a value such as "iii" or "3").

all

This special selector causes the program to iterate over all pages in the PDF. Because it cannot save multiple pages into one single SVG the second parameter is expected to contain a sensible file specification:

pdf2svg document.pdf output-page%d.svg all

The usual format modificators work as well: output-page%02d.svg will give you output-page00.svg, output-page01.svg, etc.

AUTHOR

pdf2svg was written by David Barton <davebarton@cityinthesky.co.uk> and Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu>.

This manual page was written by Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).