PPMTOPJ(1)

💖 Ppmtopj User Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to ppmtopj — the lil Netpbm glow-up tool that takes your PPM pic and turns it into something your HP PaintJet printer will actually eat. she's from the General Commands Manual era and she serves. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

ppmtopj — convert a PPM image to an HP PaintJet file

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ppmtopj

[-gamma val]

[-xpos val]

[-ypos val]

[-back {dark|lite}]

[-rle]

[-center]

[-render { none | snap | bw | dither | diffuse | monodither |
monodiffuse | clusterdither | monoclusterdither }]

[ppmfile]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So this program is literally part of Netpbm(1) — you know, the whole fam. 👑

ppmtopj reads a PPM image as input and converts it into a format suitable to be printed by an HP PaintJet printer. that's the whole vibe. no cap.

For best results, the input file should be in 8-color RGB form — meaning it should have only the 8 binary combinations of full-on and full-off primaries. (the way that 8 is the magic number 😌)

You could convert your input to this format like this:

pamseq 3 1 testimg.ppm >8color.pam
pnmremap -map 8color.pam testimg.pam | ppmtopj

Or you could use:

ppmdither -red 2 -green 2 -blue 2

both work, pick your fighter 💅

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

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

• -rle — Run length encode the image. (warning bestie: this can result in larger images 😭 like why is she like this but ok)
• -back — Enhance the foreground by indicating if the background is light or dark compared to the foreground. you pick: dark or lite.
• -render alg — Use an internal rendering algorithm (default dither). the alg choices are none, snap, bw, dither, diffuse, monodither, monodiffuse, clusterdither, monoclusterdither — pick one, she's got range ✨
• -gamma int — Gamma correct the image using the integer int as a gamma (default 0).
• -center — Center the image to an 8.5 by 11 page. main character energy, dead center 🎯
• -xpos pos — Move by pos pixels in the x direction.
• -ypos pos — Move by pos pixels in the y direction.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

HP PaintJet XL Color Graphics Printer User's Guide, pnmtopclxl(1), pjtoppm(1), pamdepth(1), pnmremap(1), pamseq(1), ppmdither(1), pbmtolj(1), ppmtolj(1), ppmtopjxl(1), thinkjettopbm(1), ppm(1)

the whole friend group honestly 🫶

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Copyright (C) 1991 by Christos Zoulas.

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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/ppmtopj.html

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okay and that's the whole page silly 💖 this was netpbm documentation, dated 13 July 1991 — yeah she's vintage, she's iconic, she's Ppmtopj User Manual(1). periodt. 💅✨