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)