---
name: "brushtopbm"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "netpbm"
version: "10.86.51-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/brushtopbm"
---

# brushtopbm(1)

convert a doodle brush file into a PBM image

## NAME

brushtopbm - convert a doodle brush file into a PBM image

## SYNOPSIS

**brushtopbm** \[*brushfile*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This program is part of **Netpbm**(1) .

**brushtopbm** reads a Xerox doodle brush file as input.  and produces a PBM image as output.

## OPTIONS

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

## SEE ALSO

[**pbmtobrush**(1)](/pbmtobrush/1.md) **pbm**(1)

## AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer.

## DOCUMENT SOURCE

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

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  **http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/brushtopbm.html**