NAME

       pbmpage - create a one page test pattern for printing

SYNOPSIS

       pbmpage [-a4] test_pattern

DESCRIPTION

       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       pbmpage generates a one page test pattern to print on a sheet of paper, for use in calibrating a printer.
       The test pattern in is PBM format.

       pbmpage produces an image intended for 600 dots per inch printer resolution.

       If you are printing on an HP PPA printer, you can convert the output of this program to a stream that you
       can feed to the printer with pbmtoppa.

       Bear  in  mind  that  when  you  print  the  test  pattern, you are testing not only the printer, but any
       converter or driver software along the printing path.  Any one of these components  may  adjust  margins,
       crop the image, erase edges, and such.

       If,  because  of  addition  of margins, the printer refuses to print the image because it is too big, use
       pamcut to cut the right and bottom edges off the test pattern until it is small enough to print.

       test_pattern  is the number of the test pattern to generate, as follows.  The default is 1.

       1      A black on white grid ruled in numbers of pixels.  A black one pixel box is at the very  edges  of
              the paper.

              Before Netpbm 10.18 (August 2003), the perimeter box was not there.

       2      A vertical line segment, one pixel wide, extending 1/2" up from the exact center of the page.

       3      Two  diagonal line segments, one starting at the upper left corner of the page, the other starting
              from the lower right corner of the page.  Both extend 1/2" toward the center of  the  page  at  45
              degrees.

OPTIONS

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

       -a4    Generate an image for A4 (European) paper.  Without this option, pbmpage generates an image for US
              standard paper (8 1/2" wide x 11" high).

SEE ALSO

       pbmtoppa(1), pamcut(1), pbm(1)

AUTHOR

       Tim Norman.  Copyright (C) 1998.  Licensed under GNU General Public License

       Manual page by Bryan Henderson, May 2000.  Contributed to the public domain by its author.

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/pbmpage.html

netpbm documentation                              08 June 2019                            Pbmpage User Manual(1)