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This program is part of Netpbm.
pamtowinicon reads an RGB_ALPHA Netpbm PAM file and converts it to a Microsoft Windows icon file.
The output goes to Standard Output.
The input is a multi-image PAM file; each image becomes an icon in the output file. If you have input images in multiple files, you can simply combine them with cat and pass the result to pamtowinicon.
When the program uses PNG encoding for a 5-channel PAM with separate AND mask (see below), it discards the AND mask.
The default value for threshold is 128.
pamtowinicon reads a (multi-image) Netpbm PAM file as input and outputs an single Windows icon file containing those images.
The images in the icon file are in the same order as in the PAM input.
pamtowinicon interprets the PAM images as follows, based on the number of channels.
channels | image |
---|---|
1 | fully opaque grayscale image |
2 | grayscale image with alpha channel |
3 | fully opaque color image |
4 | color image with alpha channel |
5 | color image with alpha channel and additional AND mask |
The tuple types of the PAMs are irrelevant.
If there is no explicit AND mask, but transparency data in the input image, pamtowinicon sets the AND mask to opaque where the sample in the alpha channel is below maxval, and to transparent elsewhere.
If no transparency data is present in the input image, pamtowinicon assumes the whole image to be fully opaque.
pamtowinicon generates neither 16-bit BI_RGB nor BI_BITFIELDS BMP encoded images, even if the maxval of the input PAM is not 255.
For information on the PNG format, see http://schaik.com/png.
pamtowinicon was new in Netpbm 10.63 (June 2013). It obsoleted ppmtowinicon by providing more function and conforming better to Netpbm conventions.
Copyright (C) 2013 by Ludolf Holzheid.
Translated to Netpbm coding style by Bryan Henderson.