PBMTOBRUSH(1)

💅 PBMTOBRUSH — the manual page, but make it group chat

okay so bestie, you're reading the Pbmtobrush User Manual(0) and honestly? iconic of you. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

pbmtobrush — convert a PBM image to a doodle brush file 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pbmtobrush [pbmfile]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

first things first: this program is part of Netpbm(1). say it with me, part of Netpbm(1), periodt 💅

pbmtobrush reads a PBM image as input, and it produces a Xerox doodle brush file as output. that's the whole gig. it's giving "small program, big purpose" energy ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay so here's the tea: there are literally no command line options defined specifically for pbmtobrush 🙈 like, none. it's a low-maintenance icon.

BUT — and this is the important part, don't skip it — it does recognize the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm. so go look at Common Options if you need the details, bestie 👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• pbm(1)
• pbm(1)

yes, it's listed twice. no, i'm not fixing it. we stan a consistent source document 💀

⭐ HISTORY ⭐

so pbmtobrush was new in Netpbm 11.15 (June 2026) 🎉

Scott Pakin wrote it just to have something to exercise brushtopbm, which had been in Netpbm since the very beginning. no cap, that's the reason. king behavior honestly 👑

and by this time? the Xerox doodle brush file format was already obsolete 😭 Scott could not find any examples of it in web search. not one. so Scott reverse-engineered the format from brushtopbm. forensic queen energy fr fr 🔍💅

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Written by Scott Pakin in June 2026. 🫶

🧚 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/pbmtobrush.html

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 💖 one last vibe check for the road: this was netpbm documentation, dated 27 June 2026, and you were reading the Pbmtobrush User Manual(0) the entire time 🌸✨ go convert something cute 🎀