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- pgmtopbm(1) AMIGA (26 July 1988) pgmtopbm(1)
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- NAME
- pgmtopbm - convert a portable graymap into a portable bitmap
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- SYNOPSIS
- pgmtopbm [-floyd|-fs|-threshold |-hilbert |-dither8|-d8|-
- cluster3 |-c3|-cluster4|-c4 |-cluster8|-c8] [-value val] [-
- clump size] [pgmfile]
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- DESCRIPTION
- Reads a portable graymap as input. Produces a portable
- bitmap as output.
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- Note that there is no pbmtopgm converter, because any pgm
- program can read pbm files automagically.
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- OPTIONS
- The default quantization method is boustrophedonic Floyd-
- Steinberg error diffusion (-floyd or -fs). Also available
- are simple thresholding (-threshold); Bayer's ordered dither
- (-dither8) with a 16x16 matrix; and three different sizes of
- 45-degree clustered-dot dither (-cluster3, -cluster4, -
- cluster8). A space filling curve halftoning method using
- the Hilbert curve is also available. (-hilbert);
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- Floyd-Steinberg will almost always give the best looking
- results; however, looking good is not always what you want.
- For instance, thresholding can be used in a pipeline with
- the pnmconvol tool, for tasks like edge and peak detection.
- And clustered-dot dithering gives a newspaper-ish look, a
- useful special effect.
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- The -value flag alters the thresholding value for Floyd-
- Steinberg and simple thresholding. 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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- The Hilbert curve method is useful for processing images
- before display on devices that do not render individual
- pixels distinctly (like laser printers). This dithering
- method can give better results than the dithering usually
- done by the laser printers themselves. The -clump flag
- alters the number of pixels in a clump. This is usually an
- integer between 2 and 100 (default 5). Smaller clump sizes
- smear the image less and are less grainy, but seem to loose
- some grey scale linearity. Typically a PGM image will have
- to be scaled to fit on a laser printer page (2400 x 3000
- pixels for an A4 300 dpi page), and then dithered to a PBM
- image before being converted to a postscript file. A
- printing pipeline might look something like: pnmscale
- -xysize 2400 3000 image.pgm | pgmtopbm -hil | pnmtops -scale
- 0.25 > image.ps
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- All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique
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- REFERENCES
- The only reference you need for this stuff is "Digital
- Halftoning" by Robert Ulichney, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-
- 21009-6.
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- The Hilbert curve space filling method is taken from
- "Digital Halftoning with Space Filling Curves" by Luiz
- Velho, Computer Graphics Volume 25, Number 4, proceedings of
- SIGRAPH '91, page 81. ISBN 0-89791-436-8
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- SEE ALSO
- pbmreduce(1), pgm(5), pbm(5), pnmconvol(1), pnmscale(1),
- pnmtops(1)
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- AUTHOR
- Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.
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