THBPdf documentation

PDF Document generation made easy

THBPdf is a command line PDF (Portable Document Format) utility that offers some nifty function to create and edit existing PDF's

After downloading the zip package you have to run the contained THBPdf.exe to start the setup.
The setup will install all required files on your machine.
THBPdf is a lightweight tool which requires approx. 4MB on your harddisk.
We do NOT need Ghostscript.

The setup will register THBPdf in your file explorers context menu for .pdf files, folders and all files

.pdf files: THBPdf Extract Pictures THBPdf Syntaxcheck
All files: THBPdf Create PDF from picture
Folders: Create PDF from pictures Create Layer PDF from pictures

In this way you have easy access to some functions of THBPdf.
You can always deregister the explorer menu entries.
To remove THBPdf from file explorer context menu call
thbpdf.exe -u
To add THBPdf to the file explorer context menu call
thbpdf.exe -r

Registry access requires administrative rights, so ensure that you start THBPdf properly.

But to access all functions of THBPdf you have to use the command line utility.

To display usage information call
thbpdf.exe -h
which will list all command line switches and arguments.

The version will be displayed using the version argument
thbpdf.exe --version

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Create PDF from raster image files
Create multilayer PDF files
Extract pictures of a PDF page
Extract PDF pages
Syntaxcheck
General arguments affecting all functions
Troubleshooting