ppmdither - Man Page

• Read a PPM image, apply dithering and save it to a file: ppmdither path/to/image.ppm > path/to/file.ppm
• Specify the desired number of shades for each primary color: ppmdither -red 2 -green 3 -blue 2 path/to/image.ppm > path/to/file.ppm
• Specify the dimensions of the dithering matrix: ppmdither -dim 2 path/to/image.ppm > path/to/file.ppm

tldr.sh

ppmdither

[-dim=power]

[-red=n]

[-green=n]

[-blue=n]

[netpbmfile]

All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. You may use two hyphens instead of one to designate an option.  You may use either white space or an equals sign between an option name and its value.

This program is part of Netpbm(1).

ppmdither reads a Netpbm image as input, and applies dithering to it to reduce the number of colors used down to the specified number of shades for each primary.  It produces a PPM image as output.

The default number of shades is 5 red, 9 green, and 5 blue, for a total of 225 colors.  To convert the image to a binary rgb format suitable for primitive color printers, use -red=2 -green=2 -blue=2.

You can do another kind of dither -- Floyd-Steinberg -- with  pnmquant or pnmremap.

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

-dim power

The size of the dithering matrix.  The dithering matrix is a square whose dimension is a power of 2.  power is that power of 2.  The default is 4, for a 16 by 16 matrix.

-red=n

The number of red shades to be used, including black; minimum of 2.

Default is 5.

-green n

The number of green shades to be used, including black; minimum of 2.

Default is 9.

-blue n

The number of blue shades to be used, including black; minimum of 2.

Default is 5.

pamditherbw(1), pamdepth(1), pnmquant(1), pnmremap(1), ppm(1)

Copyright (C) 1991 by Christos Zoulas.

This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.  The master documentation is at

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppmdither.html

jpegtopnm(1), pamdepth(1), pnmcolormap(1), pnmquant(1), pnmremap(1), ppmcie(1), ppmforge(1), ppmtobmp(1), ppmtopj(1).