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.TH "Pbmmake User Manual" 0 "13 December 2003" "netpbm documentation"

.SH NAME

pbmmake - create a blank bitmap of a specified size

.UN synopsis
.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBpbmmake\fP
[\fB-white\fP|\fB-black\fP|\fB-gray\fP]
\fIwidth\fP
\fIheight\fP
.PP
You can abbreviate any option to its shortest unique prefix.


.UN description
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
This program is part of
.BR "Netpbm" (1)\c
\&.
.PP
\fBpbmmake\fP produces a PBM image of the specified width and
height, either all black, all white, or a dithered gray.  The default
is white.

.UN options
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
In addition to the usual \fB-white\fP and \fB-black\fP, this
program implements \fB-gray\fP.  This gives a simple 50% gray pattern
with 1's and 0's alternating.

.UN seealso
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR "pgmmake" (1)\c
\&,
.BR "ppmmake" (1)\c
\&,
.BR "pbm" (5)\c
\&

.UN author
.SH AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.
.SH DOCUMENT SOURCE
This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
source.  The master documentation is at
.IP
.B http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pbmmake.html
.PP