pgmtopbm(1)

NAME
pgmtopbm - convert a portable graymap into a portable bitmap

SYNOPSIS
pgmtopbm [-floyd|-fs|-threshold |-dither8|-d8|-cluster3 |-c3|-cluster4|-c4 |-cluster8|-c8] [-value val] [pgmfile]

DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable graymap as input. Produces a portable bitmap as output.

Note that there is no pbmtopgm converter, because any pgm program can read pbm files automagically.

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).

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.

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.

All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.

REFERENCES
The only reference you need for this stuff is "Digital Halftoning" by Robert Ulichney, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-21009-6.

SEE ALSO
pbmreduce(1), pgm(5), pbm(5), pnmconvol(1)

AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.