Macptopbm User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Macptopbm User Manual(1)
NAME
macptopbm - convert a MacPaint file into a PBM image
SYNOPSIS
macptopbm [-extraskip N] [macpfile]
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
macptopbmreads a MacPaint file as input and produces a PBM image as out-
put.
OPTIONS
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(most notably -quiet, see ]8;;index.html#commonoptions\ Common Options]8;;\ ), macptopbm recognizes the
following command line option:
You can abbreviate any option to its shortest unique prefix.
-extraskip
This option is to get around a problem with some methods of
transferring files from the Mac world to the Unix world. Most of
these methods leave the Mac files alone, but a few of them add
the "finderinfo" data onto the front of the Unix file. This
means an extra 128 bytes to skip over when reading the file. The
symptom to watch for is that the resulting PBM file looks shifted
to one side. If you get this, try -extraskip 128, and if that
still doesn't look right try another value.
SEE ALSO
picttoppm(1), pbmtomacp(1), pbm(1)
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer.
The MacPaint-reading code is copyright (c) 1987 by Patrick J. Naughton
(naughton@wind.sun.com).
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/macptopbm.html
netpbm documentation 29 March 1989 Macptopbm User Manual(1)
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