Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME pbmtopsg3 – convert PBM images to Postscript with G3 fax compression SYNOPSIS pbmtopsg3 [–title=title] [–dpi=dpi] [filespec] DESCRIPTION Converts the PBM images in the input PBM file to pages in a Postscript file encoded with G3 fax compression. If you don’t specify filespec, the input is from Standard Input. Remember that you can create a…
NAME pbmtoppa – convert PBM image to HP Printer Performance Architecture (PPA) SYNOPSIS pbmtoppa [pbm_file [ppa_file]] DESCRIPTION pbmtoppa converts page images in PBM format to Hewlett Packard’s PPA (Printer Performance Architecture) format, which is the data stream format expected by some HP "Windows-only" printers including the HP Deskjet 820C series, the HP DeskJet 720 series,…
NAME pbmtoplot – convert a portable bitmap into a Unix plot(5) file SYNOPSIS pbmtoplot [pbmfile] DESCRIPTION Reads a portable bitmap as input. Produces a Unix plot file. Note that there is no plottopbm tool – this transformation is one-way. SEE ALSO pbm(5), plot(5) AUTHOR Copyright (C) 1990 by Arthur David Olson. Index
NAME pbmtopk – convert a PBM image into a packed (PK) format font SYNOPSIS pbmtopk pkfile[.pk] tfmfile[.tfm] resolution [-s designsize] [-p num param…] [-C codingscheme] [-F family] [-f optfile] [-c num] [-W width] [-H height] [-D depth] [-I ital] [-h horiz] [-v vert] [-x xoff] [-y yoff] [pbmfile …] DESCRIPTION This program is part of…
NAME pbmtopi3 – convert a portable bitmap into an Atari Degas .pi3 file SYNOPSIS pbmtopi3 [pbmfile] DESCRIPTION Reads a portable bitmap as input. Produces an Atari Degas .pi3 file as output. SEE ALSO pi3topbm(1), pbm(5), ppmtopi1(1), pi1toppm(1) AUTHOR Copyright (C) 1988 by David Beckemeyer (bdt!david) and Jef Poskanzer. Index
NAME pbmtopgm – convert portable bitmap to portable graymap by averaging areas SYNOPSIS pbmtopgm width height [pbmfile] DESCRIPTION pbmtopgm reads a portable bitmap as input. It outputs a portable graymap in which each pixel’s gray level is the average the surrounding black and white input pixels. The surrounding area is a rectangle of width by…
NAME pbmtonokia – convert a portable bitmap to Nokia Smart Messaging Formats SYNOPSIS pbmtonokia [options] [pbmfile] DESCRIPTION Reads a portable bitmap as input. Produces a Nokia Smart Messaging (hexcode, .nok, .ngg) file as output. OPTIONS -fmt Specifies the output format (default is HEX_NOL). HEX_NOL Nokia Operator Logo as (uploadable) hexcode. Use option -net to specify…
NAME pbmtomrf – convert a PBM format image to MRF SYNOPSIS pbmtomrf [pbmfile] DESCRIPTION This program is part of Netpbm(1) pbmtomrf converts a PBM image to MRF format. For more information about mrf, see theMRF specification (1) pbmtomrf takes the PBM image from the file named by the input.pbm argument, or Standard Input if you…
NAME pbmtomgr – convert a portable bitmap into a MGR bitmap SYNOPSIS pbmtomgr [pbmfile] DESCRIPTION Reads a portable bitmap as input. Produces a MGR bitmap as output. SEE ALSO mgrtopbm(1), pbm(5) AUTHOR Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer. Index
NAME pbmtomda – convert a portable bitmap to a Microdesign .mda SYNOPSIS pbmtomda [-d][-i][—] [ pbmfile ] DESCRIPTION Reads a portable bitmap file as input. Reads from stdin if input file is omitted. Produces a MicroDesign 2 area file (.MDA) as output. OPTIONS -d Halve the height of the output file, to compensate for the…
NAME pbmtomatrixorbital – convert a PBM image to a Matrix Orbital LCD image SYNOPSIS pbmtomatrixorbital [pbmfile] DESCRIPTION This program is part of Netpbm(1) pbmtomatrixorbital reads a PBM image as input and produces as output an image that can be uploaded to a Matrix Orbital LCD display. You can upload the image to the LCD via…
NAME pbmtomacp – convert a portable bitmap into a MacPaint file SYNOPSIS pbmtomacp [-l left] [-r right] [-b bottom] [-t top] [pbmfile] DESCRIPTION Reads a portable bitmap as input. If no input-file is given, standard input is assumed. Produces a MacPaint file as output. The generated file is only the data fork of a picture….
NAME pbmtolps – convert PBM image to PostScript SYNOPSIS pbmtolps [-dpi n] [pbmfile] DESCRIPTION This program is part of Netpbm(1) pbmtolps reads a PBM image as input and outputs PostScript. The output Postscript uses lines instead of the image operator to generate a (device dependent) picture which will be imaged much faster. The Postscript path…
NAME pbmtoln03 – convert PBM image to DEC LN03+ Sixel output SYNOPSIS pbmtoln03 [-rltbf] pbmfile DESCRIPTION This program is part of Netpbm(1) pbmtoln03 reads a PBM image as input and produces a DEC LN03+ Sixel output file. OPTIONS -l nn Use ‘nn’ as value for left margin (default 0). -r nn Use ‘nn’ as value…
NAME pbmtolj – convert a portable bitmap into HP LaserJet format SYNOPSIS pbmtolj [-resolution N] [-float] [-noreset] [-packbits] [-delta] [-compress] [pbmfile] [-copies N] DESCRIPTION Reads a PBM image as input. Produces HP LaserJet data as output. Note that there is no ljtopbm tool. OPTIONS -resolution Specifies the resolution of the output device, in dpi. Typical…
NAME pbmtojbg – portable bitmap to JBIG1 file converter SYNOPSIS pbmtojbg [ options ] [ input-file | – [ output-file ]] DESCRIPTION Reads in a portable bitmap (PBM) from a file or standard input, compresses it, and outputs the image as a JBIG1 bi-level image entity (BIE) file. JBIG1 is a highly effective lossless compression…
NAME pbmtoicon – convert a portable bitmap into a Sun icon SYNOPSIS pbmtoicon [pbmfile] DESCRIPTION Reads a portable bitmap as input. Produces a Sun icon as output. SEE ALSO icontopbm(1), pbm(5) AUTHOR Copyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer. Index
NAME pbmtoibm23xx – convert a PBM image to IBM 23XX printer stream SYNOPSIS pbmtoibm23xxx [-xres=dpi] [-yres=dpi] [pbmfile …] Minimum unique abbreviation of option is acceptable. You may use double hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options. You may use white space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from its…
NAME pbmtogo – convert a portable bitmap into compressed GraphOn graphics SYNOPSIS pbmtogo [pbmfile] DESCRIPTION Reads a portable bitmap as input. Produces 2D compressed GraphOn graphics as output. Be sure to set up your GraphOn with the following modes: 8 bits / no parity; obeys no XON/XOFF; NULs are accepted. These are all on the…
NAME pbmtogem – convert a portable bitmap into a GEM .img file SYNOPSIS pbmtogem [pbmfile] DESCRIPTION Reads a portable bitmap as input. Produces a compressed GEM .img file as output. BUGS pbmtogem does not support compression of repeated lines SEE ALSO gemtopbm(1), pbm(5) AUTHOR Copyright (C) 1988 by David Beckemeyer (bdt!david) and Jef Poskanzer. Index