Manual: escp2topbm

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

SYNOPSIS
       escp2topbm [printfile]

DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       escp2topbm reads an ESC/P2 printer control stream as input.  It produces a PBM image as output.

       escp2topbm  filters  the	 raster	 graphic content from an Epson ESC/P2 printer control stream and writes the image it
       would print as a standard (raw) PBM image.

       The input is from the file named by the printfile argument, or from Standard Input if you  don't	 specify  printfile.
       The output is to Standard Output.

       escp2topbm understands compression modes 0 (uncompressed) and 1 (RLE compressed) in the Epson input stream.

OPTIONS
       There  are  no  command line options defined specifically for escp2topbm, but it recognizes the options common to all
       programs based on libnetpbm (See	 Common Options .)

       Before Netpbm 10.72 (September 2015), the Netpbm common option -plain has no effect on escp2topbm .

HINTS
       As escp2topbm is a simple program, created mainly to test pbmtoescp2, there are some restrictions:

       •      escp2topbm looks only at "ESC." sequences and ignores all data outside these Escape sequences.

       •      escp2topbm assumes that only one raster graphic is in the printer stream.	 If this isn't true, the  result  is
	      garbage.

       •      escp2topbm  assumes  that	 all  "ESC."  sequences use the same width value.  If this isn't true, the result is
	      garbage.

SEE ALSO
       pbmtoescp2(1), pbm(1)

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

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

DOCUMENT SOURCE
       This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.  The master documentation is at

	      http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/escp2topbm.html

netpbm documentation					14 July 2015				   Escp2topbm User Manual(1)