PBMTOLPS(1)

💖 PBMTOLPS — okay bestie, let's talk 💖

it's giving Pbmtolps User Manual, section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and she is HERE to convert ur pixels. ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

pbmtolps — convert PBM image to PostScript 🌸

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pbmtolps [-dpi=n] [pbmfile]

okay so quick little notes on the grammar bestie, they matter:

• Minimum unique abbreviation of option is acceptable. yes she will accept ur shortened option names if they're unambiguous 💅
• You may use double hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options.
• You may use white space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from its value. so -dpi 300 is fine, no cap.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This program is part of Netpbm(1). family reunion fr fr 🫶

pbmtolps reads a PBM image as input and outputs PostScript. but like, here's the tea: the output Postscript uses lines instead of the image operator to generate a (device dependent) picture which will be imaged much faster. it's the speedrun strat 😭🔥

pnmtops is a more general program for converting from the Netpbm formats to Postscript, though it cannot produce the particular arcane subformat that pbmtolps does. she's niche, she's mysterious, she's the main character 👑

One pixel of the input image corresponds to one printed pixel ('dot'). For this to work, you must use a -dpi option to tell pmtolps the resolution of the target printer, in dots per inch. yes literally every pixel, one dot, matching up perfectly, it's giving soulmates 💜

The Postscript program pbmtolps generates draws paths of less than 1000 segments so as not to overrun limits on the Apple Laserwriter and possibly other printers. she's being polite to the old hardware, iconic behavior honestly 🙈

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

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

• -dpi=n — The resolution of the target printer, in dots per inch. that's it, that's the one. the whole menu, bestie 🎀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

pnmtops(1), pstopnm(1), pbmtoepsi(1), psidtopgm(1), gs, pbm(1)

go read those next, iykyk ✨

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

George Phillips <phillips@cs.ubc.ca>

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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/pbmtolps.html

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⭐ one last vibe check: this page is netpbm documentation, dated 06 July 2019, and it's the Pbmtolps User Manual, section 1. stay hydrated, read ur man pages, and remember — one pixel, one dot. periodt. 💖🦋