PBMTOLJ(1)

💅 Pbmtolj User Manual 💅

okay so bestie, gather round, we're talking about pbmtolj — part of the iconic Netpbm(1) fam, fr fr.

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✨ NAME ✨

pbmtolj — convert a PBM image to HP LaserJet format 🖨️

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pbmtolj [-resolution N] [-float] [-noreset] [-packbits] [-delta]
[-compress] [pbmfile] [-copies N]

okay bestie, quick heads up: you can abbreviate any option to its shortest unique prefix. that's the vibe 😌

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This program is part of Netpbm(1). 🫶

pbmtolj reads a PBM image as input and produces HP LaserJet data as output. You can send this data to a LaserJet or DeskJet printer (at least some of them — ngl, not all of them are gonna cooperate 💀).

Each pixel in the input PBM image becomes one dot in the printed output. So the way that means you gotta make sure the width and height of your input are appropriate for the print resolution you choose and the print area you want. Like, e.g. if you print at 300 dpi and want the image to print as 8 inches by 10, you must supply a PBM that is 2400 pixels wide by 3000 pixels high. math is math 💅 You can adjust the size of the input with pamscale, pamstretch, pbmreduce, or pamenlarge.

The input may be a multi-image PBM stream. Each input image becomes a page of output. Slay. But — and this is the plot twist — before Netpbm 10.28 (June 2005), images after the first one are ignored. so if you're on ancient software, only page one is eating. 😭

Note that there is no ljtopbm tool. yeah. it's giving one-way street. sorry bestie 🙈

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see Common Options), pbmtolj recognizes the following command line options:

• -resolution — Specifies the resolution of the output device, in dpi. Another way to look at this is as a declaration of the resolution of the input image (PBM images don't have inherent resolution — they're just vibes, no metadata ✨). Typical values are 75, 100, 150, 300, and 600. The default is 75.
• -float — Suppresses positioning commands. By default, pbmtolj places the sequence ESC & l 0 E in the output, which means to force the top margin to zero. With -float, pbmtolj omits that command. bye bye margin lock 🌊
• -noreset — Prevents pbmtolj from writing the reset sequences to the beginning and end of the output file. no reset arc for you 🔥
• -packbits — Enables use of TIFF packbits compression. compress era 🫶
• -delta — Enables use of delta-between-rows compression. très efficient 👑
• -compress — Enables use of both TIFF packbits and delta-between-rows compression. double it and give it to the next printer 💖
• -copies — Specifies the number of copies. The default is 1. This option controls the "number of copies" printer control; pbmtolj generates only one copy of the image. ⚠️ lowkey important: it's telling the printer to do the copies, it's not printing the image multiple times itself. iykyk.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

pnmtopclxl(1), ppmtolj(1), pjtoppm(1), ppmtopj(1), ppmtopjxl(1), thinkjettopbm(1), pbm(1)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer and Michael Haberler. -float and -noreset options added by Wim Lewis. -delta, -packbits, and -compress options added by Dave Platt.

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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/pbmtolj.html

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and that's the whole thing bestie, no cap, every single flag accounted for 🧚

this page came from the netpbm documentation, dated 23 April 2005, and it's part of the Pbmtolj User Manual(1). go forth and print, main character 💜🌸