ppmtopj - Man Page

• Convert a PPM file to an HP PaintJet file: ppmtopj path/to/input.ppm > path/to/output.pj
• Move the image in the x and y direction: ppmtopj -xpos dx -ypos dy path/to/input.ppm > path/to/output.pj
• Explicitly specify a gamma value: ppmtopj -gamma gamma path/to/input.ppm > path/to/output.pj

tldr.sh

ppmtopj

[-gamma val]

[-xpos val]

[-ypos val]

[-back {dark|lite}]

[-rle]

[-center]

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

[ppmfile]

This program is part of Netpbm(1).

ppmtopj reads a PPM image as input and converts it into a format suitable to be printed by an HP PaintJet printer.

For best results, the input file should be in 8-color RGB form; i.e. it should have only the 8 binary combinations of full-on and full-off primaries. 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

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. (This can result in larger images)

-back

Enhance the foreground by indicating if the background is light or dark compared to the foreground.

-render alg

Use an internal rendering algorithm (default dither).

-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

-xpos pos

Move by pos pixels in the x direction.

-ypos pos

Move by pos pixels in the y direction.

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)

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/ppmtopj.html

pbmtolj(1), pjtoppm(1), pnmtopclxl(1), ppmtolj(1), ppmtopjxl(1), thinkjettopbm(1).