bbox reads a rawppm or rawpbm file and prints out the bounding box of the image (as postscript comment and in postscript points, i.e. 1/72dpi) as well as the high resolution bounding box. Input is read from standard input if no filename is specified. Example output:
%%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.
-h | --helpShow summary of options.
-VShow version of program.
-rresolution of picture in dpi
-lloose bounding box (integer bounding box is expanded by 1 point, hires bounding box is expanded by 0.5 points)
bbox was written by Roland Bless.
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.
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).