Manual: ppmtoppm

Ppmtoppm User Manual(1)				   General Commands Manual			     Ppmtoppm User Manual(1)

NAME
       ppmtoppm - copy PPM image

SYNOPSIS
       ppmtoppm

DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       ppmtoppm	 simply copies a PPM image from Standard Input to Standard Output.  This may seem an unnecessary duplication
       of cat, but remember that a PPM program can read a PBM or PGM image, and the right kind of PAM, as if  it  were	PPM.
       So ppmtoppm can read either a PBM, PGM, or PPM image and produce a PPM image as output.

       Even  that is of limited usefulness because of the fact that almost any program to which you would feed the resulting
       PPM image could also just take the original image directly.  However, sometimes you really need a true PPM image.

       When you know you have a PGM image and want a PPM image, pgmtoppm is a more general way to do that conversion.	When
       you know you have a PBM image, use that and pbmtopgm.

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

SEE ALSO
       pgmtopgm(1), pamtopam(1), pamtopnm(1), pgmtoppm(1), pbmtopgm(1), pbm(1), pgm(1), ppm(1)

HISTORY
       This program was added to Netpbm in Release 10.9 (September 2002).

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/ppmtoppm.html

netpbm documentation					February 2007				     Ppmtoppm User Manual(1)