BRUSHTOPBM(1)

💖 BRUSHTOPBM(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the brushtopbm manual page, from the General Commands Manual era, and it's giving "obscure tiny tool that absolutely slays at one specific thing." let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

brushtopbm — convert a doodle brush file into a PBM image 🖌️➡️🖼️

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

brushtopbm [brushfile]

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

kay so first thing, <rainbow>brushtopbm</rainbow> is part of Netpbm(1). it's one of the girlies in the Netpbm family, iykyk. 🫶

what it does: brushtopbm reads a Xerox doodle brush file as its input, and then produces a portable bitmap as output. that's the whole glow-up — brush file in, PBM image out. iconic behavior honestly. ✨

not me about to give you bad news though 😭 — there is currently no pbmtobrush tool. so like, the reverse trip? doesn't exist. one-way street. no take-backs. 💀

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

so here's the tea: there are no command line options defined specifically for brushtopbm. none. zero. it's a minimal queen. 👑

BUT — and this is the important part bestie — it does recognize the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm. (See Common Options.) so like, the generic ones still show up to the party even though brushtopbm didn't send its own invites. 🎀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• pbm(1)

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Copyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer.

shoutout Jef, fr fr. an absolute legend for the 1988 era. 🫡

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🧚 DOCUMENT SOURCE 🧚

this manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool makeman from HTML source. so technically it's a glow-up of a glow-up, we love a chain. 💖

the master documentation lives at:

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

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netpbm documentation • dated 28 August 1988 • from the Brushtopbm User Manual(1)

okay that's the whole page bestie, 1988 called and it ate. go convert some brush files, mwah 💋🌈🦋