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

# pbmtoxbm(1)

convert a PBM image to an X11 bitmap

## NAME

pbmtoxbm - convert a PBM image to an X11 bitmap

## SYNOPSIS

**pbmtoxbm**

\[{**-x10**\|**-x11**}\]

\[*pbmfile*\]

## DESCRIPTION

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

**pbmtoxbm** reads a PBM image as input and produces an X10 or X11 bitmap as output.

## OPTIONS

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

- **-x10**

  This option causes **pbmtoxbm** to generate the X10 version of XBM.

  You may not specify this with **-x11**.

  This option was new with Netpbm 10.37 (December 2006).  Before that, use **pbmtox10bm** instead.

- **-x11**

  This option causes **pbmtoxbm** to generate the X11 version of XBM.

  You may not specify this with **-x10**.

  The X11 version is the default, so this option has no effect.

  This option was new with Netpbm 10.37 (December 2006).

## SEE ALSO

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

## AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1988 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/pbmtoxbm.html**