1Escp2topbm User Manual(0)                            Escp2topbm User Manual(0)
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NAME

6       escp2topbm - convert an ESC/P2 printer file to a PBM image
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SYNOPSIS

10       escp2topbm [printfile]
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DESCRIPTION

14       This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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16       escp2topbm  reads  an  ESC/P2 printer control stream as input.  It pro‐
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19       escp2topbm filters the raster graphic  content  from  an  Epson  ESC/P2
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23       The input is from the file named by the  printfile  argument,  or  from
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27       escp2topbm understands compression modes 0 (uncompressed)  and  1  (RLE
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OPTIONS

32       There  are no command line options defined specifically for escp2topbm,
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35        Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ .)
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37       Before  Netpbm  10.72 (September 2015), the Netpbm common option -plain
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HINTS

42       As escp2topbm is a simple program, created mainly to  test  pbmtoescp2,
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47       •      escp2topbm  looks  only at "ESC." sequences and ignores all data
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51       •      escp2topbm assumes that  only  one  raster  graphic  is  in  the
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SEE ALSO

61       pbmtoescp2(1), pbm(1)
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AUTHOR

65       Copyright (C) 2003 by Ulrich Walcher (u.walcher@gmx.de).
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HISTORY

69       escp2topbm was added to Netpbm in Release 10.18 (August 2003);  it  was
70       created around the same time.
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DOCUMENT SOURCE

73       This  manual  page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
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76              http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/escp2topbm.html
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