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

# ppmmake(1)

create a PPM image of a specified color and dimensions

## NAME

ppmmake - create a PPM image of a specified color and dimensions

## SYNOPSIS

**ppmmake** \[**-maxval=***maxval*\] *color* *width* *height*

All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. You may use two hyphens instead of one to designate an option.  You may use either white space or an equals sign between an option name and its value.

## DESCRIPTION

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

**ppmmake** produces a PPM image of the specified color, width, height, and maxval.

Specify the color (*color*) as described for the  argument of the **pnm\_parsecolor()** library routine ⟨libnetpbm\_image.html#colorname⟩ .

## EXAMPLES

```
    ppmmake red 50 50
```

```
    ppmmake rgb:ff/80/80 50 100 -maxval=5
```

## OPTIONS

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

- **-maxval=***maxval*

       The maxval for the generated image.  Default is 255.

       This option did not exist before June 2002.  Before, the maxval was\
        always 255.

## SEE ALSO

[**pbmmake**(1)](/pbmmake/1.md) , [**pgmmake**(1)](/pgmmake/1.md) , [**ppmpat**(1)](/ppmpat/1.md) , **ppm**(1)

## AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.

## 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/ppmmake.html**