bbox (1)
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Title: bbox
Author: Roland Bless
Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.79.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
Date: January 22, 2004
Manual: PS2EPS
Source: PS2EPS 1.68
Language: English
NAME
bbox - prints out the bounding box of a rawppm or rawpbm imageSYNOPSIS
- bbox [-l] [-r] [-h] [-V] [rawpbmfile]
DESCRIPTION
bbox
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%%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, Version 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).
AUTHOR
Roland Bless
- Author.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2003 Roland Bless