.TH pgmenhance 1 "13 January 1989"
.IX pgmenhance
.SH NAME
pgmenhance - edge-enhance a portable graymap
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pgmenhance
.RI [ -N ]
.RI [ pgmfile ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable graymap as input.
Enhances the edges, and writes a portable graymap as output.
.IX "edge enhancement"
.PP
The edge enhancing technique is taken from Philip R. Thompson's "xim"
program, which in turn took it from section 6 of "Digital Halftones by
Dot Diffusion", D. E. Knuth, ACM Transaction on Graphics Vol. 6, No. 4,
October 1987, which in turn got it from two 1976 papers by J. F. Jarvis
et. al.
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
The optional
.I -N
flag should be a digit from 1 to 9.
1 is the lowest level of enhancement, 9 is the highest,
The default is 9.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
pgmedge(1), pgm(5), pbm(5)
.SH AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.
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