PGMMAKE(1)

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version 11.13.03 · 4 versions
, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 PGMMAKE 💖

okay bestie, so this is the Pgmmake User Manual, from the General Commands Manual section, and it's literally the cutest little gray-square generator you've ever met 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

pgmmake — create a PGM image of a specified gray level and dimensions

like. it makes a picture. of one (1) gray. at whatever size you want. iconic behavior fr fr 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pgmmake [-maxval=maxval] graylevel width height

okay so a few lil ground rules before we get into it, and they apply to all the options, no cap:

  • All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. so if you're feeling lazy (valid), shorter is fine as long as it's not ambiguous 🫶
  • You may use two hyphens instead of one to designate an option. one hyphen, two hyphens, she doesn't care, she's flexible like that 💅
  • You may use either white space or an equals sign between an option name and its value. so -maxval 5 and -maxval=5 are both giving the same energy ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This program is part of Netpbm(1). it's in the family, it belongs, it's the middle child and we love her 💜

pgmmake produces a PGM image of the specified gray level, width, height, and maxval. that's the whole job. she does one thing and she ATE. 👑

Specify the gray level (graylevel) as a decimal floating point number in the range [0, 1]. E.g.:

  • 1 is white ⭐
  • 0 is black 🌑
  • 0.5 is half luminosity gray 🌫️

so basically it's a slider from dark to light and you're the DJ 🎚️✨

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

here's the good stuff, bestie, the demo reel:

pgmmake 1 50 50

that's a 50×50 pure white square. minimalism. slay. 🤍

pgmmake .2 50 100 -maxval=5

that's a 50-wide, 100-tall kinda-dark gray, with maxval set to 5. she's custom, she's specific, she's main character energy 💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

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

  • -maxval=maxval — The maxval for the generated image. Default is 255. so if you don't say anything, she assumes 255, because that's just the house default and honestly it's a good one 🫶✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

pbmmake(1), ppmmake(1), pgm(1)

siblings!! go say hi!! they're all in the same friend group 💕

💀 HISTORY 💀

This program was new in Netpbm 10.32 (February 2006). so she's a 2006 baby, vintage but still serving 🎂✨

With older Netpbm, use ppmmake and ppmtopgm. like, that's the throwback route, the OGs, iykyk 🙈

📖 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/pgmmake.html

go check the source bestie, it's where the lore lives 🧚

okay that's the whole page!! no notes, she's perfect, 10/10, would read again 💜

this lil masterpiece came to you courtesy of netpbm documentation, dated 19 February 2006, and yes it's still officially titled Pgmmake User Manual(1). byeeeeee 🦋✨💖

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