Pbmtoppa was integrated into the Netpbm package in May 2000 by Bryan
Henderson. He took it from Tim Norton's pbm2ppa-0.8.6 package dated
October 1998.
Tim licenses the subject package to the public as described in the
LICENSE file.
The difference between what's in Netpbm and what was distributed by
Tim is:
- Tim called it 'pbm2ppa' Netpbm calls it 'pbmtoppa', to fit Netpbm
naming conventions.
- Tim's package included the program Pbmtpg, but the Netpbm directory
doesn't include that. The program was integrated separately into
Netpbm as Pbmpage.
- Tim's package generated 3 different versions of Pbmtoppa, one for
each of the 720, 820 or 1000 printer models. (They only differed
in their default parameters). The netpbm version has only one
Pbmtoppa, and the (existing) -v option selects defaults for the
specified printer model.
- Tim didn't have a man page. His package had several other
documentation files, though, which are not in the Netpbm package
because the information is either specific to Tim's packaging or
the information in in the Netpbm man page.
- Jozsef Marak's extension to handle draft (300 dpi) printing is
included.