MDATOPBM(1)

🦋 NAME 🦋

okay so bestie, meet mdatopbm — she takes a Microdesign .mda or .mdp file and turns it into a PBM image. literally a glow-up pipeline. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mdatopbm [-d] [-i] [--] [mdafile]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

This program is part of Netpbm(1). she's in the group chat, she belongs. 🫶

mdatopbm reads a MicroDesign file as input and Produces a PBM image as output. (yes, capital-P "Produces" — that's just her vibe, iconic, no notes. 👑)

If you don't specify mdafile, mdatopbm takes its input from Standard Input. she's flexible like that. 💀

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

On top of the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see Common Options), mdatopbm recognizes the following command line options:

• -d — Double the height of the output file, to compensate for the aspect ratio used in MicroDesign files. stretching her out, as she deserves. ✨
• -i — Invert the colors used. negative filter moment, we love a plot twist. 🌈
• -- — End of options (use this if the filename starts with "-") 🎀

ngl the program also accepts option -a for historical reasons, for the same meaning as the Netpbm common option -plain. she's keeping the old fit in the back of the closet, we respect her journey. 💜

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

pbmtomda(1), pbm(1)

iykyk, the whole friend group. 🫶

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💅 AUTHOR 💅

Copyright (C) 1999 John Elliott <jce@seasip.demon.co.uk>.

periodt. credit where credit is due, and this one lowkey ate. 🔥

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📖 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/mdatopbm.html

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okay and that's the whole thing, bestie — netpbm documentation, dated 03 December 2003, section 1 of the manual (General Commands Manual), so go forth and convert those MicroDesign files. slay. 🎀✨💖