Ilbmtoppm User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Ilbmtoppm User Manual(1)
NAME
ilbmtoppm - convert an ILBM file into a PPM image
SYNOPSIS
ilbmtoppm [-ignore<chunkID>] [ -isham | -isnotham | -isehb | -isnotehb |
-isdeep | -isnotdeep ] [-cmaponly] [-adjustcolors] [-transparent color]
[-maskfile filename [-verbose] [ILBMfile]
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
ilbmtoppm reads an IFF ILBM file as input and produces a PPM image as
output. ilbmtoppm can handle the following ILBM types:
• Normal ILBMs with 1-16 planes.
• Amiga Extra_Halfbrite (EHB)
• Amiga HAM with 3-16 planes.
• 24 bit.
• Multiplatte (normal or HAM) pictures.
• Color map (BMHD + CMAP chunk only, nPlanes = 0).
• Unofficial direct color. 1-16 planes for each color component.
ilbmtoppm uses these ILBM chunks: BMHD, CMAP, CAMG (only HAM & EHB flags
used), PCHG, BODY unofficial DCOL chunk to identify direct color ILBM.
It ignores these chunks: GRAB, DEST, SPRT, CRNG, CCRT, CLUT, DPPV, DRNG,
EPSF. It ignores, but displays in verbose mode, these: NAME, AUTH, (c),
ANNO, DPI. It skips chunks whose type it doesn't recognize.
OPTIONS
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(most notably -quiet, see ]8;;index.html#commonoptions\ Common Options]8;;\ ), ilbmtoppm recognizes the
following command line options:
-transparent color
This is the color that should "show through" in places where the
image is transparent.
color is like the ]8;;libnetpbm_image.html#colorname\argument of the pnm_parsecolor() library rou-
tine]8;;\ .
-verbose
Give some information about the ILBM file.
-ignore chunkID
Skip a chunk. chunkID is the 4-letter IFF chunk identifier of
the chunk to be skipped.
-isham | -isehb
Treat the input file as a HAM or Extra_Halfbrite picture, even if
these flags are not set in the CAMG chunk (or if there is no CAMG
chunk).
-maskfile filename
This names a file for ilbmtoppm to create with the image's trans-
parency mask. The mask file is a PBM image which maps to the in-
put image with white pixels representing transparent pixels in
the image and black pixels representing opaque pixels.
If you don't specify this, or the image does not contain trans-
parency information, ilbmtoppm does not create a mask file.
-cmaponly
With this option, ilbmtoppm generates a PPM of the ILBM's color
map, not the image itself.
ilbmtoppm does the same thing even without -cmaponly if the ILBM
is a pure color map stream (it has a bitmap header with an
nplanes value of zero or has no BODY chunk.
-adjustcolors
If all colors in the CMAP have a value of less then 16, ilbmtoppm
assumes a 4-bit colormap and gives a warning. With this option
the colormap is scaled to 8 bits.
LIMITATIONS
The multipalette PCHG BigLineChanges and Huffman decompression code is
untested.
REFERENCES
Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual - Devices (3rd Ed.) Addison Wesley,
ISBN 0-201-56775-X
SEE ALSO
ppmtoilbm(1), ppm(1)
AUTHORS
Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.
Modified October 1993 by Ingo Wilken (Ingo.Wilken@informatik.uni-olden-
burg.de)
DOCUMENT SOURCE
This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
source. The master documentation is at
http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ilbmtoppm.html
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