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diff --git a/pnmcomp.html b/pnmcomp.html index 7f450299..510d646c 100644 --- a/pnmcomp.html +++ b/pnmcomp.html @@ -2,66 +2,35 @@ <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Pnmcomp User Manual</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY> <H1>pnmcomp</H1> -Updated: 15 February 2004 +Updated: 02 August 2014 <BR> <A HREF="#index">Table Of Contents</A> <H2>NAME</H2> -pnmcomp - composite (overlay) two PNM images together +<B>pnmcomp</B> - replaced by pamcomp -<H2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</H2> -<B>pnmcomp</B> - -[<B>-align=</B>{<B>left</B>|<B>center</B>|<B>right</B>| -<B>beyondleft</b>|<b>beyondright</b>}] -<BR> -[<B>-valign=</B>{<B>top</B>|<B>middle</B>|<B>bottom</B>| -<b>above</b>|<b>below</b>}] -<BR> -[<B>-xoff=</B><I>X</I>] -[<B>-yoff=</B><I>Y</I>] -<BR> -[<B>-alpha=</B><I>alpha-pgmfile</I>] -[<B>-invert</B>] -[<B>-opacity=<i>opacity</i></B>] -<BR> -<I>overlay_file</I> -[<I>underlying_file</I> [<I>output_file</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> +<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2> <p>This program is part of <a href="index.html">Netpbm</a>. -<p><b>pnmcomp</b> was obsoleted by <a -href="pamcomp.html"><b>pamcomp</b></a>, introduced with Netpbm 10.21 -(March 2004). <b>pamcomp</b> is backward compatible with -<b>pnmcomp</b>, plus adds many additional functions, including the -ability to process PAM images, and tends to produce better transparency -results. - -<p><b>pnmcomp</b> remains in the Netpbm package because it may have -fewer bugs for now than <b>pamcomp</b>, and is in some environments faster -(but newer compilers have been seen to produce code for <b>pamcomp</b> -significantly faster than that for <b>pnmcomp</b>). Some day, -<b>pnmcomp</b> will probably become an alias for <b>pamcomp</b>. +<p><b>pnmcomp</b> was obsoleted by <a href="pamcomp.html"><b>pamcomp</b></a>, +introduced with Netpbm 10.21 (March 2004). <b>pamcomp</b> is backward +compatible with <b>pnmcomp</b>, plus adds many additional functions. Among +this is the ability to process PAM images, including those with transparency +channels. -<p>You can use the <b>pamcomp</b> documentation for <b>pnmcomp</b>, -considering the following differences: +<p><b>pnmcomp</b> remained in the Netpbm package until Netpbm 10.68 (September +2014) because of hopes that it had fewer bugs than <b>pamcomp</b> because of +its age. But now it would just be clutter. -<ul> -<li><b>pnmcomp</b> options are a subset of <b>pamcomp</b>'s, as - documented above. -<li><b>pnmcomp</b> always assumes the input is linear, as <b>pamcomp</b> - does when you specify its <b>-linear</b> option. -<li><b>pnmcomp</b> cannot process PAM images. -</ul> +<p>In Netpbm before 10.21, use the manual for <b>pamcomp</b> with +<b>pnmcomp</b>. Features that are in <b>pamcomp</b> but not <b>pnmcomp</b> +are indicated by statements that they didn't exist before 10.21. </BODY> </HTML> + + + |