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DVIPDFM(1)			   DVIPDFMx			    DVIPDFM(1)

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  con‐
       verted 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_speci‐
	    fications 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 lev‐
	    els 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 gen‐
       erated 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 Kpath‐
       sea 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)
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