1. Download and install the software.
Visit the Xpdf website at:
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
Click the Download link and then click the pre-compiled Windows binary ZIP archive to download the Xpdf utilities for Windows.
2. Read the licensing agreements.
Go to the folder where you unzipped the downloaded ZIP file.
Read the licensing agreements, which are in plain text files called COPYING (which is GNU GPL V2) and COPYING3 (which is GNU GPL V3) in the root of the unzipped archive.
3. If you need commercial licensing, visit the parent company's website.
For commercial licensing, visit the Glyph & Cog website:
http://www.glyphandcog.com/
4. Locate the folder with the documentation.
Go to the folder where you unzipped the downloaded ZIP file and find the subfolder called <doc>.
5. Read all of the documentation.
Go into the <doc> folder and read the documentation. All of the files are plain text files that may be opened with any text editor, such as Notepad, or any software that can open a text file, such as Word or WordPad.
6. Locate the executables for the utilities.
Go to the folder where you unzipped the downloaded ZIP file and find the subfolders called <bin32> and <bin64>. These contain the EXE files for all nine of the utilities. In nearly all cases, the 32-bit modules will work fine, even on 64-bit Windows. The only times that you may need to use the 64-bit binaries are with PDFtoPPM or PDFtoPS, and only in those cases where the tool needs to allocate very large blocks of memory.
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