Manual: macptopbm

Macptopbm User Manual(1)			   General Commands Manual			    Macptopbm User Manual(1)

NAME
       macptopbm - convert a MacPaint file into a PBM image

SYNOPSIS
       macptopbm [-extraskip N] [macpfile]

DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       macptopbmreads a MacPaint file as input and produces a PBM image as output.

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

       You can abbreviate any option to its shortest unique prefix.

       -extraskip
	      This option is to get around a problem with some methods of transferring files from the Mac world to the	Unix
	      world.   Most of these methods leave the Mac files alone, but a few of them add the "finderinfo" data onto the
	      front of the Unix file.  This means an extra 128 bytes to skip over when reading the  file.   The	 symptom  to
	      watch  for is that the resulting PBM file looks shifted to one side.  If you get this, try -extraskip 128, and
	      if that still doesn't look right try another value.

SEE ALSO
       picttoppm(1), pbmtomacp(1), pbm(1)

AUTHOR
       Copyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer.

       The MacPaint-reading code is copyright (c) 1987 by Patrick J. Naughton (naughton@wind.sun.com).

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/macptopbm.html

netpbm documentation					29 March 1989				    Macptopbm User Manual(1)