PBMTO4425(1)

💖 pbmto4425 — bestie, we're putting pictures on a 4425 terminal 💖

okay so real talk, this is pbmto4425, a page from the Pbmto4425 User Manual (section 1, General Commands Manual, iykyk) 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

pbmto4425 — displays PBM images on an AT&T 4425 terminal 🖥️💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pbmto4425 [pbmfile]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so first thing, this program is part of Netpbm(1), she's in the family 💖

pbmto4425 displays PBM format images on an AT&T 4425 ASCII terminal, and the way she does it is by using that terminal's mosaic graphics character set. iconic. it's giving pixel art but make it terminal ✨

and ngl it should also work with other VT100-like terminals that have mosaic graphics character sets, like the C. Itoh CIT-101 — but bestie, plot twist, it has not yet been tested on terminals other than the 4425 😭 so like. manifesting for you but no promises fr fr.

also she puts the terminal into 132 column mode to achieve the maximum resolution of the terminal 🔥 in this mode the terminal has a resolution of 264 columns by 69 rows. so tiny. so cute. so crunchy.

here's the thing though — the pixels have an aspect ratio of 1:2.6 🙈 so before you display anything, you should process the image first, in a manner such as this:

% pamscale -xscale 2.6 pamfile \
    | pamscale -xysize 264 69 \
    | ppmtopgm \
    | pamditherbw \
    | pbmto4425

the way that pipeline EATS. periodt 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

ngl, there are no command line options defined specifically for pbmto4425 🙅♀️ but she does recognize the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (See Common Options.) so you're not totally option-less, bestie 🫶

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• pbmtoascii(1)
• ppmtoterm(1)
• pbm(1)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Copyright (C) 1993 by Robert Perlberg 🌟

🌈 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/pbmto4425.html

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aaaand that's the whole page bestie, no notes 💖 this was netpbm documentation, 1994, Pbmto4425 User Manual(1) — go forth and render your PBM pixels on that AT&T 4425, slay 👑✨🎀