GEMTOPNM(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, meet gemtopnm — the girl whose whole job is converting a GEM .img file into a PNM image 💅🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gemtopnm [-debug] [gemfile]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so first thing you need to know: this program is part of Netpbm(1) 💫 like it's in the family, it belongs.

gemtopnm reads a GEM .img file — and it'll take either the one plane (black/white) variety or the four plane (16 color) variety, no cap — and spits out a PBM or a PPM file as output, depending on whether your input was one plane or four plane. it's giving "read the room and match the energy" fr fr ✨

and where's it reading from? the input file is gemfile if you specify that argument, otherwise it's just Standard Input. output goes to Standard Output, periodt 🎀

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

so besides the options that are common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, peep Common Options for that one 👀), gemtopnm recognizes this one command line option right here:

• -debug — produces output describing the contents of the .img file. it's basically the program spilling the tea about what's inside the file 🍓

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• pbmtogem(1)
• pnm(1)

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Copyright (C) 1988 Diomidis D. Spinellis (dds@cc.ic.ac.uk). iconic behavior honestly, an absolute legend 💖

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🧚 DOCUMENT SOURCE 🧚

this manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool makeman from HTML source. the master documentation lives at:

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

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and that's the whole vibe bestie 🫶 this was netpbm documentation, the 28 March 2025 edition of the Gemtopnm User Manual(1) — slay, you read the whole thing, so proud of you 💅✨