Manual: ddbugtopbm

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NAME
       ddbugtopbm - convert Diddle or DiddleBug sketches to PBM files

SYNOPSIS
       ddbugtopbm

EXAMPLES
       ddbugtopbm Netpbm(1).

       ddbugtopbm converts all sketches present in a database used by the PalmOS programs Diddle or DiddleBug into appropri‐
       ately-named  PBM	 files.	  The  backup copy of DiddleBug's database you should use as this program's input is usually
       called DiddleBugDB.pdb.	Or if you use the original Diddle, it has two separate DBs -  DiddleDB.pdb,  containing	 un‐
       named  `scratch'	 sketches, and DiddleIDB.pdb, containing the saved (and named) sketches which are listed by its `in‐
       dex' option.  You can feed this program any of these three on standard input.

OPTIONS
       There are no command line options defined specifically for ddbugtopbm, but it recognizes the options  common  to	 all
       programs based on libnetpbm (See	 Common Options .)

USING THE PROGRAM
       I  recommend you not run ddbugtopbm from your Palm backup directory, i.e. don't run it from the directory the DB will
       normally be in.	Instead, run it from some other directory (perhaps you could make a directory purely to hold the PBM
       files, just to keep things simple) and use an absolute or relative path to the DB.

       The filenames used for the output PBMs are based on the names given to each sketch; if you have	an  unnamed  sketch,
       it's given a name along the lines of sketch-0123.pbm.

       While  the  named  sketches will overwrite any existing PBM file with the same name, the unnamed ones won't - they'll
       just try using another filename.	 (I think this is probably the right approach, as you can't really tell the  unnamed
       sketches apart.)

LIMITATIONS
       The  DiddleBug  DB  reader is only known to work with DBs from DiddleBug version 2.50. But it should probably work on
       later versions, and I think it'll work on DBs from version 2.15 as well.

       It might fall over if fed an empty database, and doesn't do much (if any) checking of the input.

AUTHOR
       Russell Marks (rus@svgalib.org).

       Mitch Blevins's decompression code is directly from DiddleBug itself, which like ddbugtopbm is distributed under	 the
       terms of the GNU GPL.

SEE ALSO
       palmtopnm(1), pbm(1)

       Jens-Chr. Heyer's `didcon' script does something similar.

HISTORY
       ddbugtopbm was new in Netpbm 10.18 (August 2003).  It was written and independently distributed in August 2002.

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/ddbugtopbm.html

netpbm documentation				       21 August 2002				   Ddbugtopbm User Manual(1)