PPMTOAPPLEVOL(1)

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version 11.13.03 · 3 versions
, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ ppmtoapplevol — the girlies' guide 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Ppmtoapplevol User Manual, section 1 of the General Commands Manual. buckle up, this one's short and sweet but it's giving very specific energy 🌈

🌸 NAME 🌸

ppmtoapplevol — convert a PPM into an Apple volume label image 🍎✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ppmtoapplevol
[ppmfile]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so this program is part of Netpbm(1), iykyk 🫶

ppmtoapplevol reads a PPM image as input and produces an Apple volume label image as output. that's it, that's the whole vibe.

here's the tea tho: EFI-based Apple systems use a simple image format to provide textual labels for devices, and this program generates that format. iconic of Apple honestly 💀

now for the rules, and bestie, they are STRICT:

  • the input image must be exactly 12 rows tall and up to 255 columns wide
  • the program fails if it is not
⚠️ no cap, if your image isn't 12 rows tall, this thing is gonna ghost you. the dimensions have to be exactly right or it's over.

need to check your dimensions? use pamfile to see the dimensions of your image, and pamscale or pamcut to make it 12 rows and less than 256 columns if it isn't. 🛠️✨

and ngl, Netpbm does not have a converter for the other direction. so it's a one-way street, no reverse uno card here 🙈

🌈 ARGUMENTS 🌈

  • ppmfile — this optional argument is the name of the input file. and if you don't give one? no problem bestie, the default is to read the input image from Standard Input. 💖

👑 OPTIONS 👑

so like... there are no command line options defined specifically for ppmtoapplevol 🫥

but wait, don't leave yet — it does recognize the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm. (See Common Options.) so it's not option-less, it's just ✨sharing✨ the family options. periodt 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

pamfile(1) pamcut(1) ppm(1)

🍓 HISTORY 🍓

ppmtoapplevol was new in Netpbm 10.54 (March 2011). so it's a 2011 baby, aquarius energy probably, we don't know for sure 💜

🧚 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/ppmtoapplevol.html

and that's the whole page, bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🎀✨

netpbm documentation · 27 January 2022 · Ppmtoapple...User Manual(1)

love u, go make some 12-row images 💖🌸🦋

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