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diff --git a/pamtopnm.html b/pamtopnm.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..67657ae7 --- /dev/null +++ b/pamtopnm.html @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Pamtopnm User Manual</TITLE></HEAD> +<BODY> +<H1>pamtopnm</H1> +Updated: 03 August 2000 +<BR> +<A HREF="#index">Table Of Contents</A> + +<H2 id="name">NAME</H2> + +pamtopnm - convert PAM image to PBM, PGM, or PPM + +<H2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</H2> + +<B>pamtopnm</B> + +[<B>-assume</B>] + +[<I>pnmfile</I>] + +<P>Minimum unique abbreviation of option is acceptable. You may use double +hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options. You may use white +space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from its value. + +<H2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</H2> + +<p>This program is part of <a href="index.html">Netpbm</a>. + +<p><b>pamtopnm</b> reads a PAM image as input and produces an +equivalent PBM, PGM, or PPM (i.e. PNM) image, whichever is most +appropriate, as output. + +<P><B>pamtopnm</B> assumes the PAM image represents the information +required for a PBM, PGM, or PPM image if its tuple type is +"BLACKANDWHITE", "GRAYSCALE", or "RGB" +and its depth and maxval are appropriate. If this is not the case, +<B>pamtopnm</B> fails. + +<P>However, you can override the tuple type requirement with the +<B>-assume</B> option. + +<P>As with any Netpbm program that reads PAM images, <B>pamtopnm</B> +also reads PNM images as if they were PAM. In that case, +<B>pamtopnm</B>'s functions reduces to simply copying the input to the +output. But this can be useful in a program that doesn't know whether +its input is PAM or PNM but needs to feed it to a program that only +recognizes PNM. + +<H2 id="options">OPTIONS</H2> + +<DL COMPACT> +<DT><B>-assume</B> + +<DD>When you specify <B>-assume</B>, you tell <B>pamtopnm</B> that you +personally vouch for the fact that the tuples contain the same data as +belongs in the channels of a PBM, PGM, or PPM file. The depth must +still conform, though, so to truly force a conversion, you may have to +run the input through <B>pamchannel</B> first. But be careful with +<B>-assume</B>. When you -assume, you make an -ass of u and me. + +</DL> + +<H2 id="seealso">SEE ALSO</H2> + +<B><A HREF="pbmtopgm.html">pbmtopgm</A></B>, +<B><A HREF="pamditherbw.html">pamditherbw</A></B>, +<B><A HREF="pgmtoppm.html">pgmtoppm</A></B>, +<B><A HREF="ppmtopgm.html">ppmtopgm</A></B>, +<B><A HREF="pam.html">pam</A></B>, +<B><A HREF="pnm.html">pnm</A></B>, +<B><A HREF="pbm.html">pbm</A></B>, +<B><A HREF="pgm.html">pgm</A></B>, +<B><A HREF="ppm.html">ppm</A></B> + + +<h2 id="history">HISTORY</h2> + +<p><b>pamtopnm</b> was new, along with the PAM format, in Netpbm +9.7 (August 2000). + +<HR> +<A NAME="index"> </A> +<H2>Table Of Contents</H2> +<UL> +<LI><A HREF="#synopsis">SYNOPSIS</A> +<LI><A HREF="#description">DESCRIPTION</A> +<LI><A HREF="#options">OPTIONS</A> +<LI><A HREF="#seealso">SEE ALSO</A> +<LI><A HREF="#history">HISTORY</A> +</UL> +</BODY> +</HTML> |