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6 pgmramp - generate a grayscale ramp
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10 pgmramp {-lr|-tb|-rectangle|-ellipse|-diagonal} [-maxval=maxval] width
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20 This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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22 Generates a graymap of the specified size containing a black-to-white
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63 An outside-in elliptical ramp. It is black around the edge and
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95 This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
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