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

# pbmtomatrixorbital(1)

convert a PBM image to a Matrix Orbital LCD image

## NAME

pbmtomatrixorbital - convert a PBM image to a Matrix Orbital LCD image

## SYNOPSIS

**pbmtomatrixorbital**

\[*pbmfile*\]

## DESCRIPTION

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

**pbmtomatrixorbital** reads a PBM image as input and produces as output an image that can be uploaded to a Matrix Orbital LCD display.

You can upload the image to the LCD via the serial port to which it is connected with the program **mo-upload.pl**, which you can get from the package **pbmtomatrixorbital**.  Yes, the package is the same name as this Netpbm program, and it contains its own **pbmtomatrixorbital** program which is slightly different from this one because it is not part of the Netpbm package.

## OPTIONS

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

## HISTORY

**pbmtomatrixorbital** was added to Netpbm in Release 10.18 (September 2003).

## SEE ALSO

[**pbmtox10bm**(1)](/pbmtox10bm/1.md) , [**xbmtopbm**(1)](/xbmtopbm/1.md) , **pbm**(1)

## 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/pbmtomatrixorbital.html**