Manual: ppmtopict

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NAME
       ppmtopict - convert a PPM image to a Macintosh PICT file

SYNOPSIS
       ppmtopict

       [ppmfile]

DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       ppmtopict reads a PPM image as input and produces a Macintosh PICT file as output.

       The  generated  file is only the data fork of a picture.	 You will need a program such as mcvert to generate a Macbi‐
       nary or a BinHex file that contains the necessary information to identify the file as a PICT file to MacOS.

       Even though PICT can have 2 and 4 bits per pixel, ppmtopict always generates an 8 bits per pixel file.

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

LIMITATIONS
       The  picture  size  field  is  correct only if the output is to a file since writing into this field requires seeking
       backwards on a file.  However the PICT documentation seems to suggest that this field is not critical anyway since it
       is only the lower 16 bits of the picture size.

SEE ALSO
       picttoppm(1), ppm(1), mcvert

AUTHOR
       Copyright (C) 1990 by Ken Yap .

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/ppmtopict.html

netpbm documentation					15 April 1990				    Ppmtopict User Manual(1)