Pamwipeout User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Pamwipeout User Manual(1)
NAME
pamwipeout - replace detail with smooth gradient from one edge to the
other
SYNOPSIS
pamwipeout {-lr | -tb} [filename]
Minimum unique abbreviation of options is acceptable. You may use dou-
ble hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options.
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
pamwipeout replaces every row or column (as directed) with a smooth gra-
dient between the pixel values at each edge. You can use it in combina-
tion with pamcut and pnmpaste / pamcomp to remove unwanted parts of a
larger image.
In top-bottom mode, the program reads the whole image into memory before
it can start processing. In left-right it will read the image a row at
the time, process that row and write it to the output file. Therefore,
in case of very large images, it may be better to use instead of
"pamwipeout -tb" a pipe of "pamflip -cw | pamwipeout -lr | pamflip
-ccw".
PARAMETERS
Filename is the name of the input file. If you don't specify this,
pamwipeout reads the image from Standard Input.
OPTIONS
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(most notably -quiet, see ]8;;index.html#commonoptions\ Common Options]8;;\ ), pamwipeout recognizes the
following command line options:
-tb | -lr
This option chooses between a vertical and a horizontal gradient.
You must specify one of these, but not both.
SEE ALSO
pam(1) and pamflip(1), pamcut(1), pamcomp(1), pnmpaste(1).
HISTORY
pamwipeout was new in Netpbm 10.54 (March 2011).
A predecessor program (not part of Netpbm) was called pnmblend.
AUTHORS
Willem van Schaik wrote this program in January 2011 and contributed it
to Netpbm.
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/pamwipeout.html
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