Pbmtolj User Manual(1)

NAME
pbmtolj - convert a PBM image to HP LaserJet format

SYNOPSIS

pbmtolj [-resolution N] [-float] [-noreset] [-packbits] [-delta] [-compress] [pbmfile] [-copies N]

You can abbreviate any option to its shortest unique prefix.

DESCRIPTION

This program is part of Netpbm(1) .

pbmtolj reads a PBM image as input and produces HP LaserJet data as output. You can send this data to a LaserJet or DeskJet printer (at least some of them).

Each pixel in the input PBM image becomes one dot in the printed output. Therefore, you must make sure the width and height of the input are appropriate for the print resolution you choose and the print area you want. E.g. if you print at 300 dpi and want the image to print as 8 inches by 10, you must supply a PBM that is 2400 pixels wide by 3000 pixels high. You can adjust the size of the input with pamscale, pamstretch, pbmreduce, or pamenlarge.

The input may be a multi-image PBM stream. Each input image becomes a page of output. But before Netpbm 10.28 (June 2005), images after the first one are ignored.

Note that there is no ljtopbm tool.

OPTIONS

In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see
 Common Options index.html#commonoptions ), pbmtolj recognizes the following command line options:

-resolution
    Specifies the resolution of the output device, in dpi. Another way to look at this is as a declaration of the resolution of the input image (PBM images don't have inherent resolution). Typical values are 75, 100, 150, 300, and 600. The default is 75.

-float
    Suppresses positioning commands. By default, pbmtolj places the sequence ESC & l 0 E in the output, which means to force the top margin to zero. With -float, pbmtolj omits that command.

-noreset
    Prevents pbmtolj from writing the reset sequences to the beginning and end of the output file.

-packbits
    Enables use of TIFF packbits compression.

-delta
    Enables use of delta-between-rows compression.

-compress
    Enables use of both TIFF packbits, and delta-between-rows compression.

-copies
    Specifies the number of copies. The default is 1. This option controls the "number of copies" printer control; pbmtolj generates only one copy of the image.

SEE ALSO
pnmtopclxl(1) , ppmtolj(1) , pjtoppm(1) , ppmtopj(1) , ppmtopjxl(1) , thinkjettopbm(1) , pbm(1)

AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer and Michael Haberler. -float and -noreset options added by Wim Lewis. -delta, -packbits, and -compress options added by Dave Platt.

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

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