pgmmake(1)

pgmmake1

Create a pgm image of a specified gray level and dimensions

Usage

pgmmake [-maxval=maxval] graylevel width height

All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. You may use two hyphens instead of one to designate an option. You may use either white space or an equals sign between an option name and its value.

Overview

This program is part of Netpbm(1) .

pgmmake produces a PGM image of the specified gray level, width, height, and maxval.

Specify the gray level (graylevel) as a decimal floating point number in the range [0, 1]. E.g. 1 is white, 0 is black, and 0.5 is half luminosity gray.

Examples

    pgmmake 1 50 50
    pgmmake .2 50 100 -maxval=5

Options

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

-maxval=maxval

The maxval for the generated image. Default is 255.

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/pgmmake.html

Releases

3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 12–13
  2. Arch

History

This program was new in Netpbm 10.32 (February 2006).

With older Netpbm, use ppmmake and ppmtopgm.

From netpbm 10.86.51-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.