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authorgiraffedata <giraffedata@9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8>2010-04-08 02:59:55 +0000
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 <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Ppmtoterm User Manual</TITLE></HEAD>
 <BODY>
 <H1>ppmtoterm</H1>
-Updated: 17 August 2002
+Updated: 07 April 2010
 <BR>
 <A HREF="#index">Table Of Contents</A>
 
-<A NAME="lbAB">&nbsp;</A>
 <H2>NAME</H2>
 
 ppmtoterm - convert a PPM image to a ANSI ISO 6429 ascii image
 
-<A NAME="lbAC">&nbsp;</A>
-<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
+<H2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</H2>
 
 <B>ppmtoterm</B>
 
@@ -22,8 +20,7 @@ ppmtoterm - convert a PPM image to a ANSI ISO 6429 ascii image
 You may use two hyphens instead of one.  You may separate an option
 name and its value with white space instead of an equals sign.
 
-<A NAME="lbAD">&nbsp;</A> 
-<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
+<H2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</H2>
 
 <p>This program is part of <a href="index.html">Netpbm</a>. 
 
@@ -44,6 +41,13 @@ column of the input image.  E.g. an 80 pixel by 25 pixel PPM image would
 fill up an 80x25 terminal screen.  Use <b>pamscale</b> or <b>pamcut</b>
 to make your image fit properly on your screen.
 
+<p>Furthermore, use <b>pamscale</b> to recover the proper aspect ratio,
+because a character on a terminal screen is rarely square.  Typically, a
+character is twice has high as it is wide, so in order for a 20x20 image to
+appear square on your terminal, as it should, you'll want to squash it
+vertically or stretch it horizontally by a factor of two (resulting int 10x20
+characters are 20x40 characters).
+
 <P>The image starts at the current cursor position on the terminal
 screen.  Each successive row starts at Column 0 on the screen.  If you want
 to shift the image up or down, for example to center it, use
@@ -55,15 +59,13 @@ images on the linux console, e.g. a proper logo at Linux boot.
 <p><b>pbmto4425</b> does a similar thing for black and white images, using
 line drawing characters, on some terminals.
 
-<A NAME="lbAE">&nbsp;</A>
-<H2>OPTIONS</H2>
+<H2 id="options">OPTIONS</H2>
 
 <P>
 None.
 
 
-<A NAME="lbAF">&nbsp;</A>
-<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
+<H2 id="seealso">SEE ALSO</H2>
 
 <B><A HREF="pamscale.html">pamscale</A></B>,
 <B><A HREF="pamcut.html">pamcut</a></b>,
@@ -72,28 +74,24 @@ None.
 <B><A HREF="ppm.html">ppm</A></B>
 
 
-<A NAME="lbAG">&nbsp;</A>
-<H2>AUTHOR</H2>
+<H2 id="author">AUTHOR</H2>
 
 Copyright (C) 2002 by Ero Carrera.
 
 
-<A NAME="history"></a>
-<h2>HISTORY</H2>
+<h2 id="history">HISTORY</H2>
 
 <P>This program was new in Netpbm 10.9 (August 2002).
 
 
 <HR>
-<A NAME="index">&nbsp;</A>
-<H2>Table Of Contents</H2>
+<H2 id="contents">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="#lbAG">AUTHOR</A>
+<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="#author">AUTHOR</A>
 </UL>
 </BODY>
 </HTML>