Man page 8 : calibrate_ppa

calibrate_ppa - pnm2ppa calibration tool

calibrate_ppa [options]

Produces various PixMap (PPM) files used for calibrating pnm2ppa.

• This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
      .SH NOTE The size of a full-page PixMap is 100MB!!. These PixMaps should be piped directly to pnm2ppa, except in the case of the -g option, where the PixMap should be viewed or printed by other means.

-g, --gamma

    produce gamma.ppm (10MB, used in color calibration).

-h, --help

    displays this help text.

-o <outfile>

    output to file <outfile>, "-o -" means stdout (default)

-p <n>

    create test pattern number <n>

--align

    pattern 0: align print heads. (default)

--test

    pattern 1: test alignment.

--clean

    pattern 2: clean print head.

--center

    pattern 3: center paper.

-s\fR <paper>

    default papersize (a4, legal, letter = us (default))

This manual page was written by Chad C. Walstrom <>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

pnm2ppa (1), magicfilter (8), apsfilter (8)