dvipdfmx, xdvipdfmx, dvipdfm - produce PDF files directly from DVI files

       Primarily  Mark  A.  Wicks;  dvipdfmx extensions primarily by Jin-Hwan Cho, Shunsaku Hirata, and Matthias
       Franz. For the version in TeX Live, please send bugs and other reports to  the  maintainers  at  dvipdfmx
       (at) tug.org (https://lists.tug.org/dvipdfmx).

       This man page edited for TeX Live by Bob Tennent and others. This man page is public domain.

                                                   1 June 2021                                       DVIPDFMX(1)

       The  program  dvipdfmx  generates  a PDF file from a DVI file.  DVI files are the output produced by TeX.
       groff can also generate DVI files using grodvi(-Tdvi).

       In TeX Live, dvipdfm is another incarnation of dvipdfmx rather than a separate program.  Compatibility is
       attempted as best as possible.

       xdvipdfmx is another incarnation.  It is used as the back end for xetex(1) and  is  not  intended  to  be
       invoked directly.

       dvipdfmx  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 where possible, so that
       many  macro  packages  produced  for  use with dvips will also work with dvipdfmx.  In addition, dvipdfmx
       understands its own specific \special commands to allow access to PDF features such  as  annotations  and
       bookmarks.

       As  of  December 2018, one such special specific to dvipdfmx is pdf:trailerid, which specifies the /ID in
       the PDF trailer.  It is used like this (from the TeX level):
       \special{pdf:trailerid [ (0123456789abcdef) (01234567890abcdef) ]}
       That is, the special takes an array (the square brackets) of two 16-byte PDF strings  (the  parentheses).
       This  is the same syntax as LuaTeX's \pdfvariabletrailerid, while different from pdfTeX's \pdftrailerid.
       It must appear on the first output page, otherwise it is ignored.

       Unrecognized specials will generate warning messages. Packages that may need a dvipdfm or dvipdfmx driver
       option include geometry, hyperref, bookmark, graphicx, and xcolor.

       For issues related to bounding boxes (and hence image sizes), see extractbb(1).

dvipdfmx uses the kpathsea library for  locating  the  files  that  it  opens.   Hence,  the  environment
       variables documented in the Kpathsealibrary documentation influence dvipdfmx.  It also uses the value of
       the environment variable TMPDIR as the directory to search for thumbnail images of each page.

       The  precise  location  of  the following files is determined by the Kpathsealibrary configuration.  The
       location may be determined by using kpsewhich, e.g.,
       kpsewhich-progname=dvipdfmx-format='othertextfiles'dvipdfmx.cfgdvipdfmx.cfg
            Default configuration file

       dvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg
            Configuration file that runs Ghostscript without safety checks; use only for trusted  source  files.
            It  is  currently  required to use PSTricks with XeTeX: xetex-output-driver="xdvipdfmx-idvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg-q-E"...pdftex.map
            The default font map file (this 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
            kpsewhichtexmf.cnf

       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.

       dvipdfmx, xdvipdfmx, dvipdfm - produce PDF files directly from DVI files

       Unlike with many other programs, argument values must be separated from option names by a space, not an =
       sign; option names cannot be abbreviated; and - and -- cannot be used interchangeably.

       -c   Ignore  (or  accept)  color  \specials.   By  default,  color  \specials  are  interpreted  normally
            (changeable  in  the  configuration  file).   The -c option may be used to produce a black and white
            document from a document containing color TeX \special commands.

       --dvipdfm
            Enable dvipdfm emulation mode.  This is the default if the executable name is `dvipdfm'.

       -dnumber
            Specify the number of decimal digits in the PDF output; must be between 0 and 5, default is 2.

       -e   Ignored, for (semi-)compatibility with dvipdfm.

       -fmap_file
            Read the font map file given by map_file.  The default map  file  in  TeX  Live  is  pdftex.map,  as
            defined in the configuration file.

       --help
            Show a help message and exit successfully.

       -icfgfile
            Read cfgfile as another include file, after reading the default dvipdfmx.cfg.

       --kpathsea-debugnumber
            Have Kpathsea output debugging information; `-1' for everything (voluminous).

       -l   Select landscape mode.  In other words, exchange the x and y dimensions of the paper.

       -mmag
            Magnify the input document by mag.

       -ofilename
            Set  the  PDF  output  file  name;  use  `-' for stdout.  By default, the name of the output file is
            derived from the input, that is, file.pdf.

       -ppaper
            Select the papersize by name (e.g., letter, legal, ledger, tabloid, a3, a4, or a5 )

       --pdfm-str-utf8
            Assume PDFMark strings in \special commands are encoded in UTF-8.

       -q   Quiet mode.

       -rsize
            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.  Default is 600.

       -spage_specifications
            Select the pages of the DVI  file  to  be  processed;  default  is  `-',  meaning  all  pages.   The
            page_specifications consists of a comma separated list of page_ranges:
            page_specifications:=page_specification[,page_specifications]
            where
            page_specification:=single_page|page_rangepage_range:= [first_page]-[last_page]
            An  empty first_page is treated as the first page of the DVI file, and an empty last_page is treated
            as the last page of the DVI file.

            Examples:

            -s1,3,5
                 includes pages 1, 3, and 5;

            -s- includes all pages;

            -s-,-
                 includes two copies of all pages in the DVI file; and

            -s1-10
                 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: the same base name as the DVI file and the
            page number as the extension to the file name.  dvipdfmx does not generate such  thumbnails  itself,
            but it is distributed with a wrapper program named dvipdft that does so.

       --version
            Show a help message and exit successfully.

       -v   Increase  verbosity.   Results of the -v option are cumulative (e.g., -vv increases the verbosity by
            two increments).  Maximum verbosity is four.

       -xx_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., bp, pt, in, cm).

       -yy_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).

       -znumber
            Set the compression level to compression_level.  Compression levels range from 0 (no compression) to
            9 (maximum compression) and correspond to the values understood by zlib; default is 9.

       -Cnumber
            Miscellaneous option flags; see the --help output for details.

       -Dtemplate
            PostScript  to  PDF  conversion  command  line template; the default is taken from the configuration
            file, which also gives all the details and mentions several possibilities.

       -E   Always try to embed fonts, ignoring licensing flags, etc.

       -Inumber
            Image cache life in hours; default is -2, meaning to not cache images at all.  A value of  -1  means
            to erase all old images and also new images; 0 means to erase all old images but leave new images.

       -Knumber
            Encryption key length; default 40.

       -M   Process MetaPost PostScript output.

       -Onumber
            Set maximum depth of open bookmark items; default 0.

       -Pnumber
            Set permission flags for PDF encryption; default 0x003C.

       -S   Enable PDF encryption.

       -Vnumber
            Set PDF minor version; default 5 (from the configuration file).

dvipdft(1), extractbb(1),
       tex(1), luatex(1), xetex(1), dvips(1),
       groff(1), grodvi(1), pic(1), the Kpathsea library Info documentation (https://tug.org/kpathsea), and  the
       Dvipdfmx User's Manual (in the distribution, and linked from https://tug.org/dvipdfmx).

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