Winicontopam User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Winicontopam User Manual(1)
NAME
winicontopam - convert a Microsoft Windows icon file into a Netpbm PAM
file
SYNOPSIS
winicontopam [-image=index | -allimages] [-andmasks] [-verbose]
[icon_file]
All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. You may
use two hyphens instead of one to designate an option. You may use ei-
ther white space or equals signs between an option name and its value.
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
winicontopam reads a Microsoft Windows icon file and converts it to one
or more RGB_ALPHA Netpbm PAM images.
There are two kinds of transparency information a a Windows icon can
have: and mask and graded transparency map. The and mask is older and
indicates for each pixel whether it is fully opaque or fully transpar-
ent. The graded transparency map can indicate translucent values too.
The graded transparency map is present in an icon that uses PNG encoding
or uses BMP encoding with 32 bits per pixel.
The transparency plane in the PAM output of winicontopam comes from
the graded transparency map if it exists and the and mask otherwise.
An icon may actually have both forms of transparency information. See
-andmasks.
The output goes to Standard Output.
The output is a multi-image PAM file. If you want a separate file for
each image, use pamsplit(1).
OPTIONS
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(most notably -quiet, see ]8;;index.html#commonoptions\ Common Options]8;;\ ), winicontopam recognizes the
following command line options:
-allimages
Convert all images in the input.
You may not specify this together with -image.
By default, winicontopam converts only the one "best quality" im-
age (largest, then most bits per pixel).
-image=index
Convert image number index (starting with zero).
You may not specify this together with -allimages.
By default, winicontopam converts the "best quality" image
(largest, then most bits per pixel).
-andmasks
If the image to be extracted contains both graded transparency
data and an AND mask, produce five-channel Netpbm PAM images with
the AND mask as the fifth plane. An image that formally has
graded transparency data, but it indicates nothing but opaque
pixels is considered not to have graded transparency data, so
-andmasks would have no effect on it.
-verbose
Print more messages
SEE ALSO
• pamtowinicon(1)
• winicontoppm(1)
• pamsplit(1)
• pam(1)
• winicon(1)
For information on the PNG format, see ]8;;http://schaik.com/png\http://schaik.com/png]8;;\ .
HISTORY
winicontopam was new in Netpbm 10.63 (June 2013). It obsoleted winicon-
toppm by providing more function and conforming better to Netpbm conven-
tions.
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2013 by Ludolf Holzheid.
Translated to Netpbm coding style by Bryan Henderson.
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/winicontopam.html
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