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Pnmtorast User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Pnmtorast User Manual(1)

NAME

pnmtorast - convert a PPM into a Sun rasterfile

SYNOPSIS

pnmtorast [-standard|-rle] [pnmfile]

DESCRIPTION

This program is part of Netpbm(1).

pnmtorastreads a PPM image as input and produces a Sun rasterfile as output.

Color values in Sun rasterfiles are eight bits wide, so pnmtorast will automatically scale colors to have a maxval of 255. An extra pamdepth step is not necessary.

OPTIONS

In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see
Common Options
), pnmtorast recognizes the following command line options:

All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.

Forces the result to be in RT_STANDARD form.

Forces the result to be in RT_BYTE_ENCODED, which is smaller but, well, less standard.

The default is -rle.

SEE ALSO

rasttopnm(1), pnm(1)

AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.

DOCUMENT SOURCE

This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source. The master documentation is at

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pnmtorast.html
12 January 1991 netpbm documentation