Pgmtosbig User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Pgmtosbig User Manual(1)
NAME
pgmtosbig - convert PGM image to SBIG format
SYNOPSIS
pgmtosbig
[pgmfile]
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
pgmtosbig reads a PGM image as input and produces a Santa Barbara In-
strument Group SBIG Type 3 image as output.
Note that this format is distinct from the SBIG ST-4 format.
• The image is uncompressed
• The image says it is from a "ST-6" camera
• The image header has these lines:
• camera type
• height
• width
• saturation level
OPTIONS
There are no command line options defined specifically for pgmtosbig,
but it recognizes the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(See ]8;;index.html#commonoptions\ Common Options]8;;\ .)
SEE ALSO
sbigtopgm(1), pgm(1)
HISTORY
pgmtosbig was new in Netpbm 10.70, and was intended primarily as a test
tool for sbigtopgm.
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/pgmtosbig.html
netpbm documentation 18 January 2015 Pgmtosbig User Manual(1)
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