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

# pbmtomrf(1)

convert a PBM format image to MRF

## NAME

pbmtomrf - convert a PBM format image to MRF

## SYNOPSIS

**pbmtomrf**

\[*pbmfile*\]

## DESCRIPTION

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

**pbmtomrf** converts a PBM image to MRF format.

For more information about mrf, see **the MRF** specification" (1).

**pbmtomrf** takes the PBM image from the file named by the *input.pbm* argument, or Standard Input if you don't specify *input.pbm*.  The output goes to Standard Output.

The compression of the edges of pictures with width and/or height not an exact multiple of 64 is not optimal in all cases.

## OPTIONS

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

## AUTHOR

Russell Marks.

## SEE ALSO

[**pbmtomrf**(1)](/pbmtomrf/1.md) , **pbm**(1) , [**mrf**(1)](/mrf/1.md)

## 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/pbmtomrf.html**