NAME

       pbmpage - create a one page test pattern for printing

SYNOPSIS

       pbmpage [-a4] test_pattern

DESCRIPTION

       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       pbmpage  generates  a  one  page  test  pattern  to  print on a sheet of paper, for use in
       calibrating a printer.  The test pattern in is PBM format.

       pbmpage produces an image intended for 600 dots per inch printer resolution.

       If you are printing on an HP PPA printer, you can convert the output of this program to  a
       stream that you can feed to the printer with pbmtoppa.

       Bear  in  mind that when you print the test pattern, you are testing not only the printer,
       but any converter or driver software along the printing path.  Any one of these components
       may adjust margins, crop the image, erase edges, and such.

       If,  because  of addition of margins, the printer refuses to print the image because it is
       too big, use pamcut to cut the right and bottom edges off the test  pattern  until  it  is
       small enough to print.

       test_pattern   is  the number of the test pattern to generate, as follows.  The default is
       1.

       1      A black on white grid ruled in numbers of pixels.  A black one pixel box is at  the
              very edges of the paper.

              Before Netpbm 10.18 (August 2003), the perimeter box was not there.

       2      A vertical line segment, one pixel wide, extending 1/2" up from the exact center of
              the page.

       3      Two diagonal line segments, one starting at the upper left corner of the page,  the
              other  starting  from  the lower right corner of the page.  Both extend 1/2" toward
              the center of the page at 45 degrees.

OPTIONS

       In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet,
       see
        Common  Options  ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩  ),  pbmpage recognizes the following command
       line option:

       -a4    Generate an image for A4 (European) paper.  Without this option, pbmpage  generates
              an image for US standard paper (8 1/2" wide x 11" high).

SEE ALSO

       pbmtoppa(1), pamcut(1), pbm(1)

AUTHOR

       Tim Norman.  Copyright (C) 1998.  Licensed under GNU General Public License

       Manual page by Bryan Henderson, May 2000.  Contributed to the public domain by its author.

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/pbmpage.html