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