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.TH "Pbmmake User Manual" 1 "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 options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(most notably \fB-quiet\fP, see 
.UR index.html#commonoptions
 Common Options
.UE
\&), \fBpbmmake\fP recognizes the following
command line options:


.TP
\fB-white\fP
.TP
\fB-black\fP
.TP
\fB-gray\fP
.sp
These options specify the color of the output.  \fB-white\fP means
all pixels are white.  \fB-black\fP means all pixels are black.
\fB-gray\fP means black and white pixels alternate.
.sp
You may specify only one of these.  The default is all white.



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