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On 20 May 2011 13:43, "Harry Roberts" <<a href="mailto:harry@midnight-labs.org">harry@midnight-labs.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> pdfinfo and other apps in the `utils` directory use the standard convention of passing "-" as the filename to instruct it to read from STDIN.<br>
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> for example:<br>
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> # pdfinfo - < Desktop/servlet-30.pdf<br>
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<p>It works, thanks !</p>
<p>> Alternatively you can use "fd://0" (replacing 0 with whichever FD you want to read from)<br>
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> On 20 May 2011 11:54, Stefano Emilio Campanini <<a href="mailto:stefano.campanini@tinvention.net">stefano.campanini@tinvention.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Hi<br>
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>> I'm using poppler from a while, I find it of high quality and very<br>
>> performant also on big files, in particular the tools pdftoppm and<br>
>> pdfinfo.<br>
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>> The question: seems to be not possible having pdfinfo tool reading the<br>
>> file from the standard input, is it true ? Or I have missed something<br>
>> ?<br>
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>> stefano@tinvention-notebook-asus:~$ pdfinfo < Desktop/servlet-30.pdf<br>
>> pdfinfo version 0.12.4<br>
>> Copyright 2005-2009 The Poppler Developers - <a href="http://poppler.freedesktop.org">http://poppler.freedesktop.org</a><br>
>> Copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC<br>
>> Usage: pdfinfo [options] <PDF-file><br>
>> -f <int> : first page to convert<br>
>> -l <int> : last page to convert<br>
>> -box : print the page bounding boxes<br>
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>> stefano@tinvention-notebook-asus:~$ pdfinfo Desktop/servlet-30.pdf<br>
>> Creator: cairo 1.7.4 (<a href="http://cairographics.org">http://cairographics.org</a>)<br>
>> Producer: cairo 1.7.4 (<a href="http://cairographics.org">http://cairographics.org</a>)<br>
>> Tagged: no<br>
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>> Another question, the pdfinfo help report the "-f" and "- l"<br>
>> parameters saying "first page to convert" , does pdfinfo convert pages<br>
>> ? Is it a mistake ?<br>
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>> Thanks in advance for the help.<br>
>> Stefano<br>
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>> ing. Stefano E. Campanini<br>
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