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diff --git a/palmtopnm.html b/palmtopnm.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b4ea250b --- /dev/null +++ b/palmtopnm.html @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Palmtopnm User Manual</TITLE></HEAD> +<BODY> +<H1>palmtopnm</H1> +Updated: 26 January 2005 +<BR> +<A HREF="#index">Table Of Contents</A> + +<A NAME="lbAB"> </A> +<H2>NAME</H2> + +palmtopnm - convert a Palm Bitmap to a PNM image + +<A NAME="lbAC"> </A> +<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2> + +<B>palmtopnm</B> + +[<B>-verbose</B>] + +[<B>-rendition</B> <I>N</I>] + +[<B>-showhist</B>] + +<BR> + +[<I>palmfile</I>] + +<BR> + +<B>palmtopnm</B> + +<B>-transparent</B> + +[<B>-verbose</B>] + +[<I>palmfile</I>] + +<A NAME="lbAD"> </A> +<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2> + +<p>This program is part of <a href="index.html">Netpbm</a>. + +<p><b>palmtopnm</b> reads a Palm Bitmap as input, from Standard Input or +<I>palmfile</I> and produces a PPM image as output. + +<p>Alternatively (when you specify <b>-transparent</b>), +<b>palmtopnm</b> writes the value of the transparent color in the Palm +Bitmap to Standard Output. + + +<p><b>Palmtopnm</b> can convert Palm Bitmaps with the following features. +This does not mean that it doesn't handle other features. These are just +the ones we found worth mentioning. +<ul> +<li>Version 0 +<li>Version 1 +<li>Version 2 +<li>Version 3 (new in Netpbm 10.27 (March 2005)) +<li>Scanline compression +<li>RLE compression +<li>Packbits compression (new in Netpbm 10.27 (March 2005)) +</ul> + +<A NAME="lbAE"> </A> +<H2>OPTIONS</H2> + +<DL COMPACT> +<DT><B>-verbose</B> + +<DD> +Display various interesting information about the input file and process. + +<DT><B>-transparent</B> + +<DD> +If the Palm Bitmap has a transparent color set, +<b>palmtopnm</b> writes the value for that +color to Standard Output in the form #RRGGBB, where +RR, GG, and BB are two-digit hexadecimal numbers +indicating a value in the range 0 through 255. If no transparent color is set +in the Bitmap, <b>palmtopnm</b> writes nothing. <b>palmtopnm</b> does not +generate any output image when you specify <b>-transparent</b>. + +<DT><B>-rendition N</B> + +<DD> +Palm Bitmaps may contain several different renditions of the same +image, with different depths. By default, <B>palmtopnm </B> operates +on the first rendition (rendition number 1) in the image. This +switch allows you to operate on a different rendition. The value must +be between 1 and the number of renditions in the image, inclusive. + +<DT><B>-showhist</B> + +<DD> +This option causes <b>palmtopnm</b> to +write a histogram of colors in the input file to Standard Error. + +</DL> + +<A NAME="lbAF"> </A> +<H2>SEE ALSO</H2> + +<B><A HREF="pnmtopalm.html">pnmtopalm</A></B>, + +<A HREF="pnm.html">pnm</A>, + +<a +href="http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/docs/palmos/PalmOSReference/Bitmap.html">PalmOS +Reference</a>, + +<a +href="http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/docs/palmos/PalmOSCompanion/UserInterface.html#1010236">PalmOS +Companion</a>. + +<H2 id="limitations">LIMITATIONS</H2> + +<P>You cannot generate an alpha mask if the Palm Bitmap has a +transparent color. However, you can still do this with +<B>ppmcolormask</B> with a Netpbm pipe similar to: + +<P> +<B>palmtopnm bitmap.palm | +ppmcolormask `palmtopnm -transparent bitmap.palm`</B> + +<A name="history"></A> +<h2>HISTORY</h2> + +<p>Before Netpbm 10.23 (July 2004), there was a <b>-forceplain</b> +option. But that had been redundant for a long time, since the Netpbm +common option <b>-plain</b> does the same thing. + +<A NAME="lbAH"> </A> +<H2>AUTHORS</H2> + +This program was originally written as Tbmptopnm.c, by Ian Goldberg. +It was heavily modified by Bill Janssen to add color, compression, and +transparency function. + +<p>Copyright 1995-2001 by Ian Goldberg and Bill Janssen. + +<HR> +<A NAME="index"> </A> +<H2>Table Of Contents</H2> +<UL> +<LI><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A> +<LI><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A> +<LI><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A> +<LI><A HREF="#lbAE">OPTIONS</A> +<LI><A HREF="#lbAF">SEE ALSO</A> +<LI><A HREF="#limitations">LIMITATIONS</A> +<LI><A HREF="#history">HISTORY</A> +<LI><A HREF="#lbAH">AUTHORS</A> +</UL> +</BODY> +</HTML> |