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- pbmreduce(1) AMIGA (02 August 1989) pbmreduce(1)
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- NAME
- pbmreduce - read a portable bitmap and reduce it N times
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- SYNOPSIS
- pbmreduce [-floyd|-fs|-threshold ] [-value val] N [pbmfile]
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- DESCRIPTION
- Reads a portable bitmap as input. Reduces it by a factor of
- N, and produces a portable bitmap as output.
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- pbmreduce duplicates a lot of the functionality of pgmtopbm;
- you could do something like pnmscale | pgmtopbm, but
- pbmreduce is a lot faster.
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- pbmreduce can be used to "re-halftone" an image. Let's say
- you have a scanner that only produces black&white, not
- grayscale, and it does a terrible job of halftoning (most
- b&w scanners fit this description). One way to fix the
- halftoning is to scan at the highest possible resolution,
- say 300 dpi, and then reduce by a factor of three or so
- using pbmreduce. You can even correct the brightness of an
- image, by using the -value flag.
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- OPTIONS
- By default, the halftoning after the reduction is done via
- boustrophedonic Floyd-Steinberg error diffusion; however,
- the -threshold flag can be used to specify simple
- thresholding. This gives better results when reducing line
- drawings.
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- The -value flag alters the thresholding value for all
- quantizations. It should be a real number between 0 and 1.
- Above 0.5 means darker images; below 0.5 means lighter.
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- All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique
- prefix.
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- SEE ALSO
- pnmenlarge(1), pnmscale(1), pgmtopbm(1), pbm(5)
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- AUTHOR
- Copyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer.
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- Page 1 (printed 10/19/91)
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