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6 pnmsmooth - smooth out an image
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10 pnmsmooth [-width=cols] [-height=rows] [pnmfile] [-size]
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19 This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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21 pnmsmooth smoothes out an image by replacing each pixel with the aver‐
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29 Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ), pnmsmooth recognizes the
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101 Then, in Netpbm 10.49, there was a rather different -dump option with a
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118 This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
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