calibrate_ppa(8)

✨ calibrate_ppa — the pnm2ppa calibration tool ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to calibrate_ppa, section 8 of the System Manager's Manual 💅 this is the little helper that gets your printer looking cute before the real printing happens.

🎀 NAME 🎀

calibrate_ppa — the pnm2ppa calibration tool 🖨️✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

calibrate_ppa [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what does this thing actually do? It produces a bunch of PixMap (PPM) files that you use to calibrate pnm2ppa. That's it, that's the whole job. It's giving "printer glow-up assistant" 💖

Fun fact tho: this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program literally does not have a manual page. Not me being the responsible one 😭

💀 NOTE 💀

okay this part is IMPORTANT, bestie, no cap:

The size of a full-page PixMap is 100MB!! — yes, one hundred megabytes, I am not joking 🙈

These PixMaps should be piped directly to pnm2ppa, except in the case of the -g option, where the PixMap should be viewed or printed by other means. So like... don't just yeet it around, it's huge 🫠

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -g, --gamma — produce gamma.ppm (10MB, used in color calibration). yeah, ten whole megabytes, she's thicc ✨
• -h, --help — displays this help text. classic. iconic. the girl who explains herself 👑
• -o <outfile> — output to file <outfile>, and -o - means stdout (which is the default) 🎯
• -p <n> — create test pattern number <n> 🧚
• --align — pattern 0: align print heads. (this is the default) 💅
• --test — pattern 1: test alignment 🌈
• --clean — pattern 2: clean print head 🫧
• --center — pattern 3: center paper 🎀
• -s <paper> — default papersize. your options are a4, legal, letter = us (which is the default) 📄

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

This manual page was written by Chad C. Walstrom <chewie@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). shoutout Chad, we appreciate you fr fr 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• pnm2ppa(1)
• magicfilter(8)
• apsfilter(8)

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one's from November 05, 2000 🌸 and it lives in calibrate_ppa(8) — mwah, go calibrate something gorgeous 💋💖