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6 pbmreduce - read a PBM image and reduce it N times
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10 pbmreduce [-floyd|-fs|-threshold] [-value val] N [-randomseed=integer]
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17 This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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19 pbmreduce reads a PBM image as input and reduces it by a factor of N,
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22 pbmreduce duplicates a lot of the functionality of pamditherbw; you
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27 scanner that only produces black&white, not grayscale, and it does a
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30 lution, say 300 dpi, and then reduce by a factor of three or so using
31 pbmreduce. You can even correct the brightness of an image, by using
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64 pamenlarge(1), pamscale(1), pamditherbw(1), pbm(1)
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68 Copyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer.
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71 This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
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