NAME

       bbox - prints out the bounding box of a rawppm or rawpbm image

SYNOPSIS

       bbox [ -l ] [ -r ] [ -h ] [ -V ] [ rawpbmfile ]

DESCRIPTION

       bbox  reads  a  rawppm  or  rawpbm  file  and prints out the bounding box of the image (as
       postscript comment and in postscript points, i.e. 1/72dpi) as well as the high  resolution
       bounding  box.  Input  is  read  from standard input if no filename is specified.  Example
       output:

              %%BoundingBox: 12 253 829 837
              %%HiResBoundingBox: 12.500000 253.000000 828.500000 837.00000

       bbox has only very limited memory requirements as it reads the input line by line and thus
       needs to store only one picture line in memory.

OPTIONS

       -h | --help
              Show summary of options.

       -V     Show version of program.

       -r     resolution of picture in dpi

       -l     loose bounding box (integer bounding box is expanded by 1 point, hires bounding box
              is expanded by 0.5 points)

SEE ALSO

       ps2eps (1)

AUTHOR

       bbox was written by Roland Bless.

   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
       Special thanks goes to Michael Sharpe from UCSD who suggested a lot  of  improvements  for
       bbox to become more precise and robust, especially for small drawings.

       An  earlier  version  of  this  manual  page  was originally written by Rafael Laboissiere
       <rafael@debian.org> for the Debian system. Thank you  Rafael!  Permission  is  granted  to
       copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
       License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;  with
       no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.

BUGS

       Though  the  code  is  quite small and the probability for bugs is now small, there may be
       some left somewhere between the lines.   In  case  you  find  one,  please  send  a  short
       description  with  bbox  version  number  to  <roland@bless.de> (please allow some time to
       reply).

                                          31 August 2010                                  BBOX(1)