pbmupc(1) [minix man page]

pbmupc(1)                                                     General Commands Manual                                                    pbmupc(1)

NAME

       pbmupc - create a Universal Product Code bitmap

SYNOPSIS

       pbmupc [-s1|-s2] type manufac product

DESCRIPTION

       Generates  a  Universal Product Code symbol.  The three arguments are: a one digit product type, a five digit manufacturer code, and a five
       digit product code.  For example, "0 72890 00011" is the code for Heineken.

       As presently configured, pbmupc produces a bitmap 230 bits wide and 175 bits high.  The size can be altered by changing the defines at  the
       beginning of the program, or by running the output through pnmenlarge or pnmscale.

OPTIONS

       The -s1 and -s2 flags select the style of UPC to generate.  The default, -s1, looks more or less like this:
        ||||||||||||||||
        ||||||||||||||||
        ||||||||||||||||
        ||||||||||||||||
       0||12345||67890||5
       The other style, -s2, puts the product type digit higher up, and doesn't display the checksum digit:
        ||||||||||||||||
        ||||||||||||||||
       0||||||||||||||||
        ||||||||||||||||
        ||12345||67890||

SEE ALSO

       pbm(5)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.

                                                                   14 March 1989                                                         pbmupc(1)

pbmreduce(1)                                                  General Commands Manual                                                 pbmreduce(1)

NAME

       pbmreduce - read a portable bitmap and reduce it N times

SYNOPSIS

       pbmreduce [-floyd|-fs|-threshold ] [-value val] N [pbmfile]

DESCRIPTION

       Reads a portable bitmap as input.  Reduces it by a factor of N, and produces a portable bitmap as output.

       pbmreduce  duplicates  a  lot  of  the  functionality  of pgmtopbm; you could do something like pnmscale | pgmtopbm, but pbmreduce is a lot
       faster.

       pbmreduce can be used to "re-halftone" an image.  Let's say you have a scanner that only produces black&white, not grayscale, and it does a
       terrible job of halftoning (most b&w scanners fit this description).  One way to fix the halftoning is to scan at the highest possible res-
       olution, say 300 dpi, and then reduce by a factor of three or so using pbmreduce.  You can even correct the  brightness  of  an  image,  by
       using the -value flag.

OPTIONS

       By  default,  the  halftoning after the reduction is done via boustrophedonic Floyd-Steinberg error diffusion; however, the -threshold flag
       can be used to specify simple thresholding.  This gives better results when reducing line drawings.

       The -value flag alters the thresholding value for all quantizations.  It should be a real number between 0 and 1.  Above 0.5  means  darker
       images; below 0.5 means lighter.

       All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.

SEE ALSO

       pnmenlarge(1), pnmscale(1), pgmtopbm(1), pbm(5)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer.

                                                                  02 August 1989                                                      pbmreduce(1)