PBMPAGE(1)

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version 11.13.03 · 6 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ pbmpage ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the Pbmpage User Manual page and it's literally about making a cute lil test pattern so your printer stops acting brand new 💅

💖 NAME 💖

pbmpage — create a one page test pattern for printing 🖨️✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pbmpage [-a4] test_pattern

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So! This program is part of Netpbm(1), iykyk.

pbmpage generates a one page test pattern that you print on a sheet of paper, and you use it to calibrate a printer. The test pattern is in PBM format. Very demure, very mindful.

pbmpage produces an image that's intended for 600 dots per inch printer resolution. Slay.

If you're printing on an HP PPA printer, you can convert the output of this program into a stream you can feed straight to the printer using pbmtoppa. Chef's kiss 🤌

🫶 Real talk though: when you print the test pattern, you are testing not only the printer, but any converter or driver software along the printing path. Any one of these components may adjust margins, crop the image, erase edges, and such. So if something looks cursed, it might not be the printer's fault, bestie.

If, because of added margins, the printer refuses to print the image because it's too big, use pamcut to cut the right and bottom edges off the test pattern until it's small enough to print. Problem solved, periodt ✂️

test_pattern is the number of the test pattern you wanna generate, as follows. The default is 1.

  1. A black on white grid ruled in numbers of pixels. A black one pixel box is at the very edges of the paper.
Before Netpbm 10.18 (August 2003), the perimeter box was not there. Ancient history, honestly 🙈
  1. A vertical line segment, one pixel wide, extending 1/2" up from the exact center of the page. Iconic, minimal, centered.
  2. Two diagonal line segments, one starting at the upper left corner of the page, the other starting from the lower right corner of the page. Both extend 1/2" toward the center of the page at 45 degrees. It's giving ✨ symmetry ✨.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

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

  • -a4 — Generate an image for A4 (European) paper. Without this option, pbmpage generates an image for US standard paper (8 1/2" wide x 11" high). Pick your paper era 🌍📄

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

pbmtoppa(1), pamcut(1), pbm(1)

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Tim Norman. Copyright (C) 1998. Licensed under GNU General Public License.

Manual page by Bryan Henderson, May 2000. Contributed to the public domain by its author. Kings, both of them 👑

🌈 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/pbmpage.html

okay that's the whole thing, love u, go calibrate that printer 🫶💖 this was netpbm documentation, dated 08 June 2019, and yes she ate 🌟

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