Ppmtopict User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Ppmtopict User Manual(1)
NAME
ppmtopict - convert a PPM image to a Macintosh PICT file
SYNOPSIS
ppmtopict
[ppmfile]
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
ppmtopict reads a PPM image as input and produces a Macintosh PICT file
as output.
The generated file is only the data fork of a picture. You will need a
program such as mcvert to generate a Macbinary or a BinHex file that
contains the necessary information to identify the file as a PICT file
to MacOS.
Even though PICT can have 2 and 4 bits per pixel, ppmtopict always gen-
erates an 8 bits per pixel file.
OPTIONS
There are no command line options defined specifically for ppmtopict,
but it recognizes the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(See ]8;;index.html#commonoptions\ Common Options]8;;\ .)
LIMITATIONS
The picture size field is correct only if the output is to a file since
writing into this field requires seeking backwards on a file. However
the PICT documentation seems to suggest that this field is not critical
anyway since it is only the lower 16 bits of the picture size.
SEE ALSO
picttoppm(1), ppm(1), mcvert
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1990 by Ken Yap <ken@cs.rocester.edu>.
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/ppmtopict.html
netpbm documentation 15 April 1990 Ppmtopict User Manual(1)
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