---
name: "pbmtopsg3"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "netpbm"
version: "10.86.51-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pbmtopsg3"
---

# pbmtopsg3(1)

convert PBM images to Postscript with G3 fax compression

## NAME

pbmtopsg3 - convert PBM images to Postscript with G3 fax compression

## SYNOPSIS

**pbmtopsg3** \[**--title=***title*\] \[**--dpi=***dpi*\] \[*filespec*\]

## DESCRIPTION

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

**pbmtopsg3** converts the PBM images in the input PBM file to pages in a Postscript file encoded with G3 fax compression.

**pnmtops** is a more general program for converting from the Netpbm formats to Postscript, though it cannot produce the particular subformat that **pbmtopsg3** does.

If you don't specify *filespec*, the input is from Standard Input.

Remember that you can create a multi-image PBM file simply by concatenating single-image PBM files, so if each page is in a different file, you might do:

```
cat faxpage* | pbmtopsg3 >fax.ps
```

## OPTIONS

In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably **-quiet**, see \
  Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ), **pbmtopsg3** recognizes the following command line options:

- **-title**

  The Postscript title value.  Default is no title.

- **-dpi**

  The resolution of the Postscript output.  Default is 72 dpi.

## SEE ALSO

[**pnmtops**(1)](/pnmtops/1.md) , [**pstopnm**(1)](/pstopnm/1.md) , **gs**, [**pstopnm**(1)](/pstopnm/1.md) , [**pbmtolps**(1)](/pbmtolps/1.md) , [**pbmtoepsi**(1)](/pbmtoepsi/1.md) , [**pbmtog3**(1)](/pbmtog3/1.md) , [**g3topbm**(1)](/g3topbm/1.md) , **pbm**(1) , **fax formats**(1)

## 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/pbmtopsg3.html**