All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. You may use two hyphens instead of one to designate an option. You may use either white space or an equals sign between an option name and its value.
This program is part of Netpbm.
pnmpad reads a PNM image as input and outputs a PNM image that is the input image plus black or white borders of the sizes specified.
If you just need to convert an image to a certain size regardless of the original dimensions, pamcut with the -pad option may be a better choice.
-left and -right directly specify the amount of padding added to the left and right sides, respectively, of the image.
Alternatively, you can specify -width and just one of -left and -right and pnmpad calculates the required padding on the other side based on the width of the input image. If the -width value is less than the width of the image plus the specified padding, the -width values is ignored.
If you specify all three of -width, -left, and -right, you must ensure that the -left and -right padding are sufficient to make the image at least as wide as -width specifies. Otherwise, pnmpad fails.
When you specify -width without -left or -right, and -width is larger than the input image, pnmpad chooses left and right padding amounts in a certain ratio. That ratio defaults to half, but you can set it to anything (from 0 to 1) with the -halign option. If the input image is already at least as wide as -width specifies, pnmpad adds no padding.
Common values for -halign are:
Before Netpbm 10.23 (July 2004), pnmpad did not allow the -left or -right option together with -width.
Before February 2002, pnmpad had a different option syntax which was less expressive and not like conventional Netpbm programs. That syntax is still understood by pnmpad for backward compatibility, but not documented or supported for future use.
Copyright (C) 2002 by Martin van Beilen
Copyright (C) 1990 by Angus Duggan
Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.
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