NAME

       escp2topbm - convert an ESC/P2 printer file to a PBM image

SYNOPSIS

       escp2topbm [printfile]

DESCRIPTION

       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       escp2topbm  reads  an  ESC/P2 printer control stream as input.  It produces a PBM image as
       output.

       escp2topbm filters the raster graphic content from an Epson ESC/P2 printer control  stream
       and writes the image it would print as a standard (raw) PBM image.

       The  input is from the file named by the printfile argument, or from Standard Input if you
       don't specify printfile.  The output is to Standard Output.

       escp2topbm understands compression modes 0 (uncompressed) and 1 (RLE  compressed)  in  the
       Epson input stream.

OPTIONS

       There  are  no command line options defined specifically for escp2topbm, but it recognizes
       the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (See
        Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ .)

       Before Netpbm 10.72 (September 2015), the Netpbm common option -plain  has  no  effect  on
       escp2topbm .

HINTS

       As  escp2topbm  is  a  simple  program,  created mainly to test pbmtoescp2, there are some
       restrictions:

       •      escp2topbm looks only at "ESC." sequences and ignores all data outside these Escape
              sequences.

       •      escp2topbm  assumes that only one raster graphic is in the printer stream.  If this
              isn't true, the result is garbage.

       •      escp2topbm assumes that all "ESC."  sequences use the same width  value.   If  this
              isn't true, the result is garbage.

SEE ALSO

       pbmtoescp2(1), pbm(1)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 2003 by Ulrich Walcher (u.walcher@gmx.de).

HISTORY

       escp2topbm  was  added to Netpbm in Release 10.18 (August 2003); it was created around the
       same time.

DOCUMENT SOURCE

       This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.  The  master
       documentation is at

              http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/escp2topbm.html