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pbm(5)									pbm(5)

NAME
       pbm - portable bitmap file format

DESCRIPTION
       The  portable  bitmap  format is a lowest common denominator monochrome
       file format.  It was originally designed to make it reasonable to  mail
       bitmaps	between	 different  types of machines using the typical stupid
       network mailers we have today.  Now it serves as the common language of
       a large family of bitmap conversion filters.  The definition is as fol‐
       lows:

       - A "magic number" for identifying the file type.  A pbm	 file's	 magic
	 number is the two characters "P1".

       - Whitespace (blanks, TABs, CRs, LFs).

       - A width, formatted as ASCII characters in decimal.

       - Whitespace.

       - A height, again in ASCII decimal.

       - Whitespace.

       - Width * height bits, each either '1' or '0', starting at the top-left
	 corner of the bitmap, proceeding in normal English reading order.

       - The character '1' means black, '0' means white.

       - Whitespace in the bits section is ignored.

       - Characters from a "#" to the next end-of-line are ignored (comments).

       - No line should be longer than 70 characters.

       Here is an example of a small bitmap in this format:
       P1
       # feep.pbm
       24 7
       0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
       0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0
       0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
       0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0
       0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
       0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
       0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

       Programs that read this	format	should	be  as	lenient	 as  possible,
       accepting anything that looks remotely like a bitmap.

       There is also a variant on the format, available by setting the RAWBITS
       option at compile time.	This variant is	 different  in	the  following
       ways:

       - The "magic number" is "P4" instead of "P1".

       - The bits are stored eight per byte, high bit first low bit last.

       - No whitespace is allowed in the bits section, and only a single char‐
	 acter of whitespace  (typically  a  newline)  is  allowed  after  the
	 height.

       - The  files  are eight times smaller and many times faster to read and
	 write.

SEE ALSO
       atktopbm(1),  brushtopbm(1),  cmuwmtopbm(1),  g3topbm(1),  gemtopbm(1),
       icontopbm(1), macptopbm(1), mgrtopbm(1), pi3topbm(1), xbmtopbm(1), ybm‐
       topbm(1), pbmto10x(1), pnmtoascii(1), pbmtoatk(1), pbmtobbnbg(1),  pbm‐
       tocmuwm(1),  pbmtoepson(1), pbmtog3(1), pbmtogem(1), pbmtogo(1), pbmto‐
       icon(1), pbmtolj(1),  pbmtomacp(1),  pbmtomgr(1),  pbmtopi3(1),	pbmto‐
       plot(1),	 pbmtoptx(1), pbmtox10bm(1), pbmtoxbm(1), pbmtoybm(1), pbmtoz‐
       inc(1), pbmlife(1), pbmmake(1), pbmmask(1),  pbmreduce(1),  pbmtext(1),
       pbmupc(1), pnm(5), pgm(5), ppm(5)

AUTHOR
       Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.

			       27 September 1991			pbm(5)
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