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

# mgrtopbm(1)

convert a MGR bitmap into a PBM image

## NAME

mgrtopbm - convert a MGR bitmap into a PBM image

## SYNOPSIS

**mgrtopbm** \[*mgrfile*\]

## DESCRIPTION

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

**mgrtopbm** reads a MGR bitmap as input and produces a PBM image as output.

**MGR**(1)  is a window manager that is a smaller alternative to the X Windows System.

## OPTIONS

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

## SEE ALSO

[**pbmtomgr**(1)](/pbmtomgr/1.md) , **pbm**(1)

## AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1989 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/mgrtopbm.html**