Testing procedure
The following commands test some of the commands and backends associated with poppler. You need to have a terminal open in a directory where you have one or more PDF files available.
$ pdffonts example.pdf
lists the fonts used in the document
$ pdfimages -f 1 -l 10 example.pdf examplepdf
To see the result:
$ ls examplepdf*
examplepdf-000.ppm
To display the result:
$ gwenview examplepdf-000.ppm
$ pdfinfo example.pdf
Shows pdf info
Convert PDF to HTML:
$ pdftohtml -s -f 1 -l 10 example.pdf examplepdf
Page-1
Page-2
etc..
To see the resulting files:
$ ls examplepdf*
examplepdf-000.ppm
examplepdf004.png
examplepdf008.png
examplepdf-html.html
examplepdf001.png
examplepdf005.png
examplepdf009.png
examplepdfs.html
examplepdf002.png
examplepdf006.png
examplepdf010.png
examplepdf003.png
examplepdf007.png
examplepdf-10_1.png
Check the html file can be viewed in a browser:
$ konqueror examplepdf-html.html
Test that the original file opens in various programs:
$ okular example.pdf $ evince example.pdf $ epdfview example.pdf
