Escp2topbm User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Escp2topbm User Manual(1)
NAME
escp2topbm - convert an ESC/P2 printer file to a PBM image
SYNOPSIS
escp2topbm [printfile]
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
escp2topbm reads an ESC/P2 printer control stream as input. It pro-
duces a PBM image as output.
escp2topbm filters the raster graphic content from an Epson ESC/P2
printer control stream and writes the image it would print as a stan-
dard (raw) PBM image.
The input is from the file named by the printfile argument, or from
Standard Input if you don't specify printfile. The output is to Stan-
dard Output.
escp2topbm understands compression modes 0 (uncompressed) and 1 (RLE
compressed) in the Epson input stream.
OPTIONS
There are no command line options defined specifically for escp2topbm,
but it recognizes the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(See
Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ .)
Before Netpbm 10.72 (September 2015), the Netpbm common option -plain
has no effect on escp2topbm .
HINTS
As escp2topbm is a simple program, created mainly to test pbmtoescp2,
there are some restrictions:
• escp2topbm looks only at "ESC." sequences and ignores all data
outside these Escape sequences.
• escp2topbm assumes that only one raster graphic is in the
printer stream. If this isn't true, the result is garbage.
• escp2topbm assumes that all "ESC." sequences use the same width
value. If this isn't true, the result is garbage.
SEE ALSO
pbmtoescp2(1), pbm(1)
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2003 by Ulrich Walcher (u.walcher@gmx.de).
HISTORY
escp2topbm was added to Netpbm in Release 10.18 (August 2003); it was
created around the same time.
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/escp2topbm.html
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