PPMDIM(1)

💅 PPMDIM 💅

ok so welcome to the Ppmdim User Manual, section 1 of the General Commands Manual bestie, sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're dimming some pixels.

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✨ NAME ✨

ppmdim — dim a PPM image 🕶️

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ppmdim dimfactor [ppmfile]

like literally that's it. two lil things and you're done. iconic.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so first thing you need to know: this program is part of Netpbm(1). it's in the family. it has cousins. 💖

now the tea ☕: this program is largely obsoleted by the more general pamfunc(1) — and if you go that route you wanna use the -multiplier option, ok? but ppmdim hasn't left, it remains for backward compatibility (it's loyal like that 🫶) and also because its use of integer arithmetic may make it faster. so like. it's giving speed. it's giving legacy. no cap.

so what does it actually do? ppmdim reads a PPM image input and diminishes its brightness by the specified dimfactor. that's the whole vibe. dark academia energy.

and the dimfactor? it may be in the range from 0.0 — which is total blackness, deep night, nada, null, nothing, like the void, like 3am with no thoughts 💀 — all the way up to 1.0, which is the original picture's brightness. so 1.0 = untouched queen 👑, 0.0 = she has LEFT the building.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay bestie here's the thing, and I need you to hear me:

• there are no command line options defined specifically for ppmdim 💀

BUT. it does recognize the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm — see Common Options. so like, the family options, the shared ones, the group chat rules. iykyk.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• ppm(1)
• pamfunc(1)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (C) 1993 by Frank Neumann

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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/ppmdim.html

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and that's the whole page bestie!! stay dim, stay slay, go dim something. 💜✨

netpbm documentation · June 2002 · mwah 💅🎀