Ppmmake User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Ppmmake User Manual(1)
NAME
ppmmake - create a PPM image of a specified color and dimensions
SYNOPSIS
ppmmake [-maxval=maxval] color width height
All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. You may
use two hyphens instead of one to designate an option. You may use ei-
ther white space or an equals sign between an option name and its value.
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
ppmmake produces a PPM image of the specified color, width, height, and
maxval.
Specify the color (color) as described for the ]8;;libnetpbm_image.html#colorname\argument of the pnm_par-
secolor() library routine]8;;\ .
EXAMPLES
ppmmake red 50 50
ppmmake rgb:ff/80/80 50 100 -maxval=5
OPTIONS
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(most notably -quiet, see ]8;;index.html#commonoptions\ Common Options]8;;\ ), ppmmake recognizes the fol-
lowing command line option:
-maxval=maxval
The maxval for the generated image. Default is 255.
This option did not exist before June 2002. Before, the
maxval was
always 255.
SEE ALSO
pbmmake(1), pgmmake(1), ppmpat(1), ppm(1)
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.
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/ppmmake.html
netpbm documentation 02 September 2002 Ppmmake User Manual(1)
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