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)


 

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