Manual: pamtopdbimg

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NAME
       pamtopdbimg - convert a Netpbm image to a Palm Pilot Image Viewer PDB Image

SYNOPSIS
       pamtopdbimg

       [-notefile=filename] [-title=text] [-compressed] [-uncompressed] [-maybecompressed] [-4depth] [-fixedtime]

       [netpbmfile]

DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       pamtopdbimg  reads  a  Netpbm  image as input and produced a Palm Pilot Image Viewer image (and Image record in a PDB
       file) as output.

       If the Netpbm image is black and white, the Pilot image is monochrome.  Otherwise, the Pilot image is either  4-level
       or 16-level grayscale, depending on the -4depth option.

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

       -title=text
	      The title of the image, to be included in the image.

       -compressed

       -uncompressed

       -maybecompressed
	      You may specify only one of these.  -compressed says to generate the  image  in  compressed  format.   -uncom‐
	      pressed says to generate the image in uncompressed format.  -maybecompressed says to generate whichever format
	      is smaller (the compression algorithm sometimes actually makes the data larger).

       -4depth
	      This  option makes pamtopdbimg create the image in 16-level grayscale (4 bits per pixel) format.	If you don't
	      specify this, pamtopdbimg uses 4-level (2 bits per pixel) format.

	      This option has no effect when the input is black and white (maxval 1).  In that case,  pamtopdbimg  generates
	      the monochrome (1 bit per pixel) format regardless.

       -notefile=filename
	      Attach the note in the specified file to the image.

	      If you don't specify this, pamtopdbimg does not attach any note.

       -fixedtime
	      Fake  the mtime and ctime vaues in the PDB image with a value that is the same every time you run the program.
	      This facilitates testing and verification because it means with the same input you always get the same output.

	      This option was new in Netpbm 10.98 (March 2022).

SEE ALSO
       pdbimgtopam(1), palmtopnm(1), pam(1),

HISTORY
       pamtopdbimg was new in Netpbm 10.52 (September 2010).  It was modelled after Eric A. Howe's imgvtopbm package,  which
       dates back to September 1997.

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/pamtopdbimg.html

netpbm documentation					12 March 2022				  Pamtopdbimg User Manual(1)