PBMTOMDA(1)

💅 Pbmtomda User Manual (1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the manual for pbmtomda — a little General Commands Manual gem that lives in the Netpbm family 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pbmtomda — convert a PBM image to a MicroDesign .mda 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pbmtomda

[-dscale] [-invert] [--]

[pbmfile]

okay so about that synopsis, a few things you should know, no cap:

• Minimum unique abbreviation of an option is acceptable. So like, you don't have to spell the whole thing out.
• You may use double hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options. Both vibes are valid 💅
• You may use white space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from its value. We're flexible like that.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This program is part of Netpbm(1), iykyk.

pbmtomda reads a PBM image as input and produces a MicroDesign 2 area file (.MDA) as output. That's it, that's the whole personality 🫶

If you do not specify pbmfile, pbmtomda uses Standard Input. So you can pipe things straight into it, main character energy fr fr.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

On top of the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see Common Options — go look it up bestie), pbmtomda recognizes these command line options:

• -d — Halve the height of the output file, to compensate for the aspect ratio used in MicroDesign files. Squish, but make it purposeful 😌
• -i — Invert the colors used. Flip that palette, periodt ✨
• -- — End of options. Use this if the filename starts with -, because otherwise the program will get confused and that's not the vibe 💀

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💀 LIMITATIONS 💀

There's no way to produce files in MicroDesign 3 format. Sad, I know 😭

MD3 itself and mdatopbm(1) can read files in either format though — so honestly? Not the end of the world.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

mdatopbm(1), pbm(1) — go give them a read, they ate 🍓

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (C) 1999 John Elliott <jce@seasip.demon.co.uk>. Iconic behavior, protecting the copyright since '99 💜

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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/pbmtomda.html

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Quick vibe check: pbmtomda is Pbmtomda User Manual(1), and this page ships as part of netpbm documentation, dated 15 September 2023. That's the whole page bestie, go convert some images 💖✨🦋🌸🎀