pbmmake(1)

pbmmake1

Create a blank bitmap of a specified size

Usage

pbmmake [-white|-black|-gray] width height

You can abbreviate any option to its shortest unique prefix.

Overview

This program is part of Netpbm(1) .

pbmmake produces a PBM image of the specified width and height, either all black, all white, or a dithered gray. The default is white.

Options

In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see
Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ), pbmmake recognizes the following command line options:

-white
-black
-gray

These options specify the color of the output. -white means all pixels are white. -black means all pixels are black. -gray means black and white pixels alternate.

You may specify only one of these. The default is all white.

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/pbmmake.html

Releases

16 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 2.0–11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

-black since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -gray since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -white since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

Author

Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.

From netpbm 10.86.51-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.