Manual: pgmtosbig

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NAME
       pgmtosbig - convert PGM image to SBIG format

SYNOPSIS
       pgmtosbig

       [pgmfile]

DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       pgmtosbig reads a PGM image as input and produces a Santa Barbara Instrument Group SBIG Type 3 image as output.

       Note that this format is distinct from the SBIG ST-4 format.

       •      The image is uncompressed

       •      The image says it is from a "ST-6" camera

       •      The image header has these lines:

       •      camera type

       •      height

       •      width

       •      saturation level

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

SEE ALSO
       sbigtopgm(1), pgm(1)

HISTORY
       pgmtosbig was new in Netpbm 10.70, and was intended primarily as a test tool for sbigtopgm.

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/pgmtosbig.html

netpbm documentation				       18 January 2015				    Pgmtosbig User Manual(1)