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)