PBMTOGEM(1)

💖 pbmtogem — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, so this is the pbmtogem page from the Pbmtogem User Manual, section 1 (that's the general commands manual, iykyk) ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pbmtogem — convert a PBM image into a GEM .img file

like. that's it. that's the whole gig. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pbmtogem [pbmfile]

one optional argument, zero drama. we love a minimal queen 👑

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so first things first: this program is part of Netpbm(1). it's in the family. it belongs. 🫶

pbmtogem reads a PBM image as its input, and it produces a compressed GEM .img file as its output. so like — PBM in, GEM .img out. glow-up complete. no cap. 🌈

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

ngl, there are no command line options defined specifically for pbmtogem 👀

but bestie — it does recognize the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (go look at Common Options, it's all there). so it's not optionless, it's just sharing the options with the whole friend group. iconique. 💅

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💀 LIMITATIONS 💀

pbmtogem cannot compress repeated lines.

that's the limit. that's the vibe check it fails. fr fr, if your image has the same line over and over, this program is not the one to squeeze it down. it's giving "not my job." 😭

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• gemtopbm(1) — the reverse glow-up 💫
• pbm(1) — the source material, the blueprint, the blueprint-babe 🌸

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (C) 1988 by David Beckemeyer (bdt!david) and Jef Poskanzer.

legends. absolute icons. we owe them everything. periodt. 🧚

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📜 DOCUMENT SOURCE 📜

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

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

go read the source, it's the main character. ⭐

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this lil doc is from the netpbm documentation, dated 11 July 1992 — yes, before most of us existed, and it still slays. 🎀✨ bye bestie, go convert some PBMs 💖🦋 👑🌸