miscellaneous update

git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/netpbm/code/userguide@2572 9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/pngtopam.html b/pngtopam.html
index 6cafbcd4..e960f33a 100644
--- a/pngtopam.html
+++ b/pngtopam.html
@@ -40,14 +40,11 @@ file.  Otherwise, it creates a PPM file.  Except that with the
 tuple type GRAYSCALE_ALPHA or RGB_ALPHA depending on whether the input
 has color or not.
 
-<p>To convert in the other direction, use <b>pnmtopng</b> or
-<b>pamrgbatopng</b>.  The former is more powerful in almost every way, except
-that only the latter can recognize transparency information in a PAM file, as
-you might generate with <b>pngtopam -alphapam</b>.  To use <b>pnmtopng</b>
-with a PAM file with transparency, you can separate out the transparency
-channel with <b>pamchannel</b> and feed it to <b>pnmtopng</b> separately.  But
-you may want to use <b>pngtopam -alpha</b> instead of <b>pngtopam
--alphapam</b> if you're going to be converting back.
+<p>To convert in the other direction, use <b>pamtopng</b> or
+<b>pnmtopng</b>.  The former is the more modern of the two and can recognize
+transparency information in a PAM file, as you might generate with <b>pngtopam
+-alphapam</b>.  It has existed only since June 2015.  The latter has more
+features, but probably not ones that matter in the modern world.
 
 
 <H2 id="options">OPTIONS</H2>
@@ -72,10 +69,6 @@ format with tuple type of either GRAYSCALE_ALPHA (which has a depth of
 <b>-mix</b>.  With none of them, <b>pngtopam</b> produces an image of
 the foreground of the input image and discards transparency information.
 
-<p>Note that converting in the other direction, the <b>pamtopng</b> converter
-won't recognize the transparency information you generate
-with <b>-alphapam</b>, but <b>pamrgbatopng</b> will.
-
 <P>This option was new in Netpbm 10.44 (September 2008).
 
 <DT><B>-alpha</B>
@@ -248,6 +241,7 @@ Netpbm format.
 
 <H2 id="seealso">SEE ALSO</H2>
 
+<A HREF="pnmtopng.html">pamtopng</A>,
 <A HREF="pnmtopng.html">pnmtopng</A>,
 <A HREF="pngtopnm.html">pngtopnm</A>,
 <b>ptot</b>,