Pcxtoppm User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Pcxtoppm User Manual(1)
NAME
pcxtoppm - convert a PCX file into a PPM image
SYNOPSIS
pcxtoppm [-stdpalette] [-verbose] [pcxfile]
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
pcxtoppm reads a PCX file as input and produces a PPM image as output.
pcxtoppm recognizes the following PCX types:
• Colormapped files with 2-16 colors.
"Packed pixel" format (1, 2 or 4 bits/pixel, 1 plane) or bitplane
format (1 bit/pixel, 1-4 planes). The program uses a predefined
standard palette if the image does not provide one. "Does not
provide one" means the palette in the PCX header is completely
black.
• Colormapped files with 256 colors.
8 bits/pixel, 1 plane, colormap at the end of the file.
• 24bit truecolor files.
24bit RGB: 8 bits/pixel, 3 planes.
• 32bit truecolor files.
24bit RGB + 8bit intensity: 8 bits/pixel, 4 planes.
OPTIONS
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(most notably -quiet, see ]8;;index.html#commonoptions\ Common Options]8;;\ ), pcxtoppm recognizes the
following command line options:
-stdpalette
This option causes pcxtoppm to use its predefined standard
palette even if the PCX image provides its own. This is meaning-
ful only for an image in the 16 color paletted PCX format.
The image may appear to provide its own palette but in fact be
created by a program too primitive to understand palettes that
created a random palette by accident.
-verbose
Report details of the PCX header.
SEE ALSO
ppmtopcx(1), ppm(1)
AUTHORS
Copyright 1990 by Michael Davidson.
Modified 1994 by Ingo Wilken (Ingo.Wilken@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
DOCUMENT SOURCE
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