calibrate_ppa (8) Linux Manual Page

calibrate_ppa – pnm2ppa calibration tool

Synopsis

calibrate_ppa [options]

Description

Produces various PixMap (PPM) files used for calibrating pnm2ppa.

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

Note

The size of a full-page PixMap is 100MB!!. These PixMaps should be piped directly to pnm2ppa, except in the case of the -g option, where the PixMap should be viewed or printed by other means.

Options

-g, –gamma

produce gamma.ppm (10MB, used in color calibration).

-h, –help

displays this help text.

-o <outfile>

output to file <outfile>, "-o -" means stdout (default)

-p <n>

create test pattern number <n>

–align

pattern 0: align print heads. (default)

–test

pattern 1: test alignment.

–clean

pattern 2: clean print head.

–center

pattern 3: center paper.

-s <paper>

default papersize (a4, legal, letter = us (default))

Author

This manual page was written by Chad C. Walstrom <chewie [at] debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

See Also

pnm2ppa(1), magicfilter(8), apsfilter(8)