pbmreduce(1)
NAME
pbmreduce - read a portable bitmap and reduce it N times
SYNOPSIS
pbmreduce [-floyd|-fs|-threshold ] [-value val] N [pbmfile]
DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable bitmap as input. Reduces it by a factor of N, and
produces a portable bitmap as output.
pbmreduce duplicates a lot of the functionality of pgmtopbm; you could do something like pnmscale | pgmtopbm, but pbmreduce is a lot faster.
pbmreduce can be used to "re-halftone" an image. Let's say you have a
scanner that only produces black&white, not grayscale, and it does a
terrible job of halftoning (most b&w scanners fit this description).
One way to fix the halftoning is to scan at the highest possible resolution, say 300 dpi, and then reduce by a factor of three or so using
pbmreduce. You can even correct the brightness of an image, by using
the -value flag.
OPTIONS
By default, the halftoning after the reduction is done via boustrophedonic Floyd-Steinberg error diffusion; however, the -threshold flag can
be used to specify simple thresholding. This gives better results when
reducing line drawings.
The -value flag alters the thresholding value for all quantizations.
It should be a real number between 0 and 1. Above 0.5 means darker
images; below 0.5 means lighter.
All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.
SEE ALSO
pnmenlarge(1), pnmscale(1), pgmtopbm(1), pbm(5)
AUTHOR
- Copyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer.