.TH pdftosrc 1 "16 June 2015" "Web2C 2023" .SH NAME pdftosrc \- extract source file or stream from PDF file .SH SYNOPSIS .B pdftosrc .I PDF-file .RI [ stream-object-number ] .SH DESCRIPTION If only .I PDF-file is given as argument, .B pdftosrc extracts the embedded source file from the first found stream object with /Type /SourceFile within the .I PDF-file and writes it to a file with the name /SourceName as defined in that PDF stream object (see application example below). If both .I PDF-file and .I stream-object-number are given as arguments, and .I stream-object-number is positive, .B pdftosrc extracts and uncompresses the PDF stream of the object given by its .I stream-object-number from the .I PDF-file and writes it to a file named .IR PDF-file . stream-object-number with the ending .B .pdf or .B .PDF stripped from the original .I PDF-file name. A special case is related to XRef object streams that are part of the PDF standard from PDF-1.5 onward: If .I stream-object-number equals -1, then .B pdftosrc decompresses the XRef stream from the PDF file and writes it in human-readable PDF cross-reference table format to a file named .IB PDF-file .xref (these XRef streams can not be extracted just by giving their object number). In any case an existing file with the output file name will be overwritten. .SH OPTIONS None. .SH FILES Just the executable .BR pdftosrc . .SH ENVIRONMENT None. .SH DIAGNOSTICS At success the exit code of .B pdftosrc is 0, else 1. All messages go to stderr. At program invocation, .B pdftosrc issues the current version number of the program .BR xpdf , on which .B pdftosrc is based: .RS pdftosrc version 3.01 .RE When .B pdftosrc was successful with the output file writing, one of the following messages will be issued: .RS Source file extracted to .I source-file-name .RE or .RS Stream object extracted to .IR PDF-file . stream-object-number .RE or .RS Cross-reference table extracted to .IR PDF-file .xref .RE .RE When the object given by the .I stream-object-number does not contain a stream, .B pdftosrc issues the following error message: .RS Not a Stream object .RE When the .I PDF-file can't be opened, the error message is: .RS Error: Couldn't open file .RI ' PDF-file '. .RE When .B pdftosrc encounters an invalid PDF file, the error message (several lines) is: .RS Error: May not be a PDF file (continuing anyway) .RE .RS (more lines) .RE .RS Invalid PDF file .RE There are also more error messages from .B pdftosrc for various kinds of broken PDF files. .SH NOTES An embedded source file will be written out unchanged, i. e. it will not be uncompressed in this process. Only the stream of the object will be written, i. e. not the dictionary of that object. Knowing which .I stream-object-number to query requires information about the PDF file that has to be gained elsewhere, e. g. by looking into the PDF file with an editor. The stream extraction capabilities of .B pdftosrc (e. g. regarding understood PDF versions and filter types) follow the capabilities of the underlying .B xpdf program version. Currently the generation number of the stream object is not supported. The default value 0 (zero) is taken. The wording .I stream-object-number has nothing to do with the `object streams' introduced by the Adobe PDF Reference, 5th edition, version 1.6. .SH EXAMPLES When using pdftex, a source file can be embedded into some .I PDF-file by using pdftex primitives, as illustrated by the following example: \\immediate\\pdfobj .RE stream attr {/Type /SourceFile /SourceName (myfile.zip)} .RS .RE file{myfile.zip} .RS .RE \\pdfcatalog{/SourceObject \\the\\pdflastobj\\space 0 R} Then this zip file can be extracted from the .I PDF-file by calling .B pdftosrc .IR PDF-file . .SH BUGS Not all embedded source files will be extracted, only the first found one. Email bug reports to .B pdftex@tug.org. .SH SEE ALSO .BR xpdf (1), .BR pdfimages (1), .BR pdftotext (1), .BR pdftex (1), .SH AUTHORS .B pdftosrc written by Han The Thanh, using .B xpdf functionality from Derek Noonburg. Man page written by Hartmut Henkel. .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1996-2006 Han The Thanh, This file is part of pdfTeX. pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. pdfTeX is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with pdfTeX; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA