BBOX(1) 																   BBOX(1)

NAME

       bbox - prints out the bounding box of a rawppm or rawpbm image

SYNOPSIS

       bbox [ -l ] [ -r ] [ -h ] [ -V ] [ rawpbmfile ]

DESCRIPTION

       bbox  reads  a  rawppm  or  rawpbm  file and prints out the bounding box of the image (as postscript comment and in postscript points, i.e.
       1/72dpi) as well as the high resolution bounding box. Input is read from standard input if no filename is specified.  Example output:

	      %%BoundingBox: 12 253 829 837
	      %%HiResBoundingBox: 12.500000 253.000000 828.500000 837.00000

       bbox has only very limited memory requirements as it reads the input line by line and thus needs to store only one picture line in memory.

OPTIONS

       -h | --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -V     Show version of program.

       -r     resolution of picture in dpi

       -l     loose bounding box (integer bounding box is expanded by 1 point, hires bounding box is expanded by 0.5 points)

SEE ALSO

       ps2eps (1)

AUTHOR

       bbox was written by Roland Bless.

   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
       Special thanks goes to Michael Sharpe from UCSD who suggested a lot of improvements for bbox to become more precise and robust,	especially
       for small drawings.

       An  earlier  version  of this manual page was originally written by Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> for the Debian system. Thank you
       Rafael! Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation  License,  Ver-
       sion 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover
       Texts.

BUGS

       Though the code is quite small and the probability for bugs is now small, there may be some left somewhere between the lines.  In case  you
       find one, please send a short description with bbox version number to <roland@bless.de> (please allow some time to reply).

								  31 August 2010							   BBOX(1)