[poppler] pdfinfo can read from the standard input ?

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Friday, May 20, 2011, Stefano Emilio Campanini va escriure:
> 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 at tinvention-notebook-asus:~$ pdfinfo < Desktop/servlet-30.pdf
> pdfinfo version 0.12.4

You might want to use a version that is not more than a year old.

Albert

> Copyright 2005-2009 The Poppler Developers - http://poppler.freedesktop.org
> 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 at tinvention-notebook-asus:~$ pdfinfo Desktop/servlet-30.pdf
> Creator:        cairo 1.7.4 (http://cairographics.org)
> Producer:       cairo 1.7.4 (http://cairographics.org)
> 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
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