Ppmtopj User Manual(0)

NAME
ppmtopj - convert a PPM image to an HP PaintJet file

SYNOPSIS
ppmtopj [-gamma val] [-xpos val] [-ypos val] [-back {dark|lite}] [-rle] [-center] [-render { none | snap | bw | dither | diffuse | monodither | monodiffuse | clusterdither | monoclusterdither }] [ppmfile]

DESCRIPTION

This program is part of Netpbm(1) .

ppmtopj reads a PPM image as input and converts it into a format suitable to be printed by an HP PaintJet printer.

For best results, the input file should be in 8-color RGB form; i.e. it should have only the 8 binary combinations of full-on and full-off primaries. You could convert your input to this format like this:
    pamseq 3 1 testimg.ppm >8color.pam
    pnmremap -map 8color.pam testimg.pam | ppmtopj
Or you could use
    ppmdither -red 2 -green 2 -blue 2

OPTIONS

In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see
 Common Options index.html#commonoptions ), ppmtopj recognizes the following command line options:

-rle
    Run length encode the image. (This can result in larger images)

-back
    Enhance the foreground by indicating if the background is light or dark compared to the foreground.

-render alg
    Use an internal rendering algorithm (default dither).

-gamma int
    Gamma correct the image using the integer int as a gamma (default 0).

-center
    Center the image to an 8.5 by 11 page

-xpos pos
    Move by pos pixels in the x direction.

-ypos pos
    Move by pos pixels in the y direction.

SEE ALSO
HP PaintJet XL Color Graphics Printer User's Guide, pnmtopclxl(1) , pjtoppm(1) , pamdepth(1) , pnmremap(1) , pamseq(1) , ppmdither(1) , pbmtolj(1) , ppmtolj(1) , ppmtopjxl(1) , thinkjettopbm(1) , ppm(1)

AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1991 by Christos Zoulas.

DOCUMENT SOURCE
This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source. The master documentation is at

    http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppmtopj.html