# pamstretch-gen - man - [phpMan]

> **TLDR:** Scale up a PAM image by decimal values.
>
- Scale up a PAM image by the specified decimal factor:
  `pamstretch-gen {{n}} {{path/to/image.pam}} > {{path/to/output.pam}}`

*Source: tldr-pages*

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## NAME
       pamstretch-gen - use pamstretch and pamscale to scale by non-integer values


## SYNOPSIS
       **pamstretch-gen _**N_ [_pnmfile_]


## DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of [**Netpbm**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/Netpbm/1/markdown).

       **pamstretch-gen  **is  a program which uses [**pamstretch**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pamstretch/1/markdown) and [**pamscale**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pamscale/1/markdown) to smoothly scale up a
       Netpbm image by any factor; it's like a more general version of **pamstretch **(hence the name).

       **pamstretch-gen **uses the **-dropedge **option on **pamstretch**.



## OPTIONS
       There are no command line options defined specifically for **pamstretch-gen**, but it  recognizes
       the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (See [ Common Options](index.html#commonoptions) .)

       The  Netpbm global options **-quiet **and **-plain **did not exist on **pamstretch-gen **prior to version
       10.86 (March 2019).  **-quiet **did not work until version 10.91 (June 2020).



## SEE ALSO
       [**pamstretch**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pamstretch/1/markdown), [**pamscale**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pamscale/1/markdown)


## AUTHOR
       Russell Marks (<_russell.marks@ntlworld.com_>).

## 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/pamstretch-gen.html>**

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