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pamdepth — Reduce the depth (i.e. color resolution) in an image. More information: <https://netpbm.sourceforge.

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Problem

How to use the pamdepth command: Reduce the depth (i.e. color resolution) in an image. More information: <https://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamdepth.html>.

Solution

pamdepth — Reduce the depth (i.e. color resolution) in an image. More information: <https://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamdepth.html>.

Read a PBM image, set its maxval and save it to a file:

pamdepth {{maxval}} {{path/to/image.pbm}} > {{path/to/file.pbm}}

Code Snippets

Read a PBM image, set its maxval and save it to a file

pamdepth {{maxval}} {{path/to/image.pbm}} > {{path/to/file.pbm}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/pamdepth

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