pbmtopgm(1) - phpMan

Command: man perldoc info search(apropos)  


pbmtopgm(1)                          General Commands Manual                          pbmtopgm(1)

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  sur-
       rounding area is a rectangle of width by height pixels.

       In  other  words, this is a convolution.  pbmtopgm is similar to a special case of pnmcon-
       vol.

       You may need a ppmsmooth step after pbmtopgm.

       pbmtopgm has the effect of anti-aliasing bitmaps which contain distinct line features.

       pbmtopgm works best with odd sample width and heights.

       You don't need pbmtopgm just to use a PGM program on a PBM image.  Any PGM program (assum-
       ing it uses the Netpbm libraries to read the PGM input) takes PBM input as if it were PGM,
       with only the mininum and maximum gray levels.  So unless your  convolution  rectangle  is
       bigger than one pixel, you're not gaining anything with a pbmtopgm step.

SEE ALSO
       netpbm(1), pgmtopbm(1), pbm(5)

AUTHOR
       Copyright (C) 1990 by Angus Duggan Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.

       Permission  to  use,  copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for
       any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the  above  copyright  notice
       appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear
       in supporting documentation.  This software is provided "as is" without express or implied
       warranty.

                                           03 Sep 2001                                pbmtopgm(1)

Generated by $Id: phpMan.php,v 4.55 2007/09/05 04:42:51 chedong Exp $ Author: Che Dong
On Apache
Under GNU General Public License
2025-01-14 23:27 @3.15.237.229 CrawledBy Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
Valid XHTML 1.0!Valid CSS!