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diff --git a/ppmtopict.html b/ppmtopict.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..09eec70a --- /dev/null +++ b/ppmtopict.html @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Ppmtopict User Manual</TITLE></HEAD><BODY> +<H1>ppmtopict</H1> +Updated: 15 April 1990 +<BR> +<A HREF="#index">Table Of Contents</A> + +<A NAME="lbAB"> </A> +<H2>NAME</H2> + +ppmtopict - convert a PPM image to a Macintosh PICT file + +<A NAME="lbAC"> </A> +<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2> + +<B>ppmtopict</B> + +[<I>ppmfile</I>] + +<A NAME="lbAD"> </A> +<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2> + +<p>This program is part of <a href="index.html">Netpbm</a>. + +<p><b>ppmtopict</b> reads a PPM image as input and produces a +Macintosh PICT file as output. + +<P> +The generated file is only the data fork of a picture. You will need +a program such as <I>mcvert</I> to generate a Macbinary or a BinHex +file that contains the necessary information to identify the file as a +PICT file to MacOS. + +<P>Even though PICT supports 2 and 4 bits per pixel, <b>ppmtopict</b> +always generates an 8 bits per pixel file. + +<A NAME="lbAE"> </A> +<H2>LIMITATIONS</H2> + +<p>The picture size field is correct only if the output is to a file +since writing into this field requires seeking backwards on a file. +However the PICT documentation seems to suggest that this field is not +critical anyway since it is only the lower 16 bits of the picture +size. + +<A NAME="lbAF"> </A> +<H2>SEE ALSO</H2> + +<A HREF="picttoppm.html">picttoppm</A>, +<A HREF="ppm.html">ppm</A>, +<b>mcvert</b> + +<A NAME="lbAG"> </A> +<H2>AUTHOR</H2> + +Copyright (C) 1990 by Ken Yap <<A +HREF="mailto:ken@cs.rocester.edu">ken@cs.rocester.edu</A>>. + +<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">BUGS</A> +<LI><A HREF="#lbAF">SEE ALSO</A> +<LI><A HREF="#lbAG">AUTHOR</A> +</UL> +</BODY> +</HTML> |