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pbmtogem — Read a PBM image as input and produce a compressed GEM `.img` file as output. `pbmtogem` cannot comp

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Problem

How to use the pbmtogem command: Read a PBM image as input and produce a compressed GEM .img file as output. pbmtogem cannot compress repeated lines. More information: <https://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pbmtogem.html>.

Solution

pbmtogem — Read a PBM image as input and produce a compressed GEM .img file as output. pbmtogem cannot compress repeated lines. More information: <https://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pbmtogem.html>.

Convert a PBM image into a GEM .img file:

pbmtogem {{path/to/file.pbm}} > {{path/to/file.img}}

Suppress all informational messages:

pbmtogem {{[-q|-quiet]}}

Display version:

pbmtogem {{[-v|-version]}}

Code Snippets

Convert a PBM image into a GEM `.img` file

pbmtogem {{path/to/file.pbm}} > {{path/to/file.img}}

Suppress all informational messages

pbmtogem {{[-q|-quiet]}}

Display version

pbmtogem {{[-v|-version]}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/pbmtogem

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