Manual: psidtopgm

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NAME
       psidtopgm - convert PostScript "image" data to a PGM image

SYNOPSIS
       psidtopgm width height bits/sample [imagedata]

DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       psidtopgm reads the "image" data from a PostScript file as input and produces a PGM image as output.

       This program is obsoleted by pstopnm.

       What follows was written before pstopnm	existed.

       This  is a very simple and limited program, and is here only because so many people have asked for it.  To use it you
       have to manually extract the readhexstring data portion from your PostScript file, and then give the  width,  height,
       and  bits/sample	 on the command line.  Before you attempt this, you should at least read the description of the "im‐
       age" operator in the PostScript Language Reference Manual.

       It would probably not be too hard to write a script that uses this filter to read a specific  variety  of  PostScript
       image, but the variation is too great to make a general-purpose reader.	Unless, of course, you want to write a full-
       fledged PostScript interpreter...

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

SEE ALSO
       pnmtops(1), pgm(1)

AUTHOR
       Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.

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/psidtopgm.html

netpbm documentation					02 August 89				    Psidtopgm User Manual(1)