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NAME
       pbmtolps - convert PBM image to PostScript


SYNOPSIS
       pbmtolps [-dpi=n] [pbmfile]

       Minimum  unique  abbreviation of option is acceptable.  You may use double hyphens instead of
       single hyphen to denote options.  You may use white space in place of the equals sign to sep‐
       arate an option name from its value.



DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       pbmtolps reads a PBM image as input and outputs PostScript.  The output Postscript uses lines
       instead of the image operator to generate a (device dependent) picture which will  be  imaged
       much faster.

       pnmtops  is  a  more  general  program  for converting from the Netpbm formats to Postscript,
       though it cannot produce the particular arcane subformat that pbmtolps does.

       One pixel of the input image corresponds to one printed pixel ('dot').  For this to work, you
       must use a -dpi option to tell pmtolps the resolution of the  target  printer,  in  dots  per
       inch.


       The Postscript program pbmtolps generates draws paths of less than 1000 segments so as not to
       overrun limits on the Apple Laserwriter and possibly other printers.


OPTIONS
       In  addition  to  the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet,
       see  Common Options ), pbmtolps recognizes the following command line option:



       -dpi=n The resolution of the target printer, in dots per inch.




SEE ALSO
       pnmtops(1), pstopnm(1), pbmtoepsi(1), psidtopgm(1), gs, pbm(1),


AUTHOR
       George Phillips <phillips AT cs.ca>

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/pbmtolps.html

netpbm documentation                        06 July 2019                     Pbmtolps User Manual(1)