calibrate_ppa
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: November 05, 2000
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NAME
calibrate_ppa - pnm2ppa calibration tool
SYNOPSIS
calibrate_ppa
[options]
DESCRIPTION
Produces various PixMap (PPM) files used for calibrating pnm2ppa.
- This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
-
NOTE
The size of a full-page PixMap is 100MB!!. These PixMaps should be piped directly to pnm2ppa, except in the case of the -g option, where the PixMap should be viewed or printed by other means.
OPTIONS
- -g, --gamma
-
produce gamma.ppm (10MB, used in color calibration).
- -h, --help
-
displays this help text.
- -o <outfile>
-
output to file <outfile>, "-o -" means stdout (default)
- -p <n>
-
create test pattern number <n>
- --align
-
pattern 0: align print heads. (default)
- --test
-
pattern 1: test alignment.
- --clean
-
pattern 2: clean print head.
- --center
-
pattern 3: center paper.
- -s <paper>
-
default papersize (a4, legal, letter = us (default))
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Chad C. Walstrom <
chewie@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
SEE ALSO
pnm2ppa(1),
magicfilter(8),
apsfilter(8)