Manual: pcxtoppm

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NAME
       pcxtoppm - convert a PCX file into a PPM image

SYNOPSIS
       pcxtoppm [-stdpalette] [-verbose] [pcxfile]

DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       pcxtoppm reads a PCX file as input and produces a PPM image as output.

       pcxtoppm recognizes the following PCX types:

       •      Colormapped files with 2-16 colors.

	      "Packed  pixel" format (1, 2 or 4 bits/pixel, 1 plane) or bitplane format (1 bit/pixel, 1-4 planes).  The pro‐
	      gram uses a predefined standard palette if the image does not provide one.  "Does not provide one"  means	 the
	      palette in the PCX header is completely black.

       •      Colormapped files with 256 colors.

	      8 bits/pixel, 1 plane, colormap at the end of the file.

       •      24bit truecolor files.

	      24bit RGB: 8 bits/pixel, 3 planes.

       •      32bit truecolor files.

	      24bit RGB + 8bit intensity: 8 bits/pixel, 4 planes.

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

       -stdpalette
	      This option causes pcxtoppm to use its predefined standard palette even if the PCX  image	 provides  its	own.
	      This is meaningful only for an image in the 16 color paletted PCX format.

	      The  image  may  appear to provide its own palette but in fact be created by a program too primitive to under‐
	      stand palettes that created a random palette by accident.

       -verbose
	      Report details of the PCX header.

SEE ALSO
       ppmtopcx(1), ppm(1)

AUTHORS
       Copyright 1990 by Michael Davidson.

       Modified 1994 by Ingo Wilken (Ingo.Wilken@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)

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/pcxtoppm.html

netpbm documentation					19 April 2004				     Pcxtoppm User Manual(1)