Manual: sunicontopnm

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NAME
       sunicontopnm - convert a Sun icon into a Netpbm image

SYNOPSIS
       sunicontopnm [iconfile]

DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       sunicontopnm reads a Sun icon as input and produces a PBM or PGM image as output.

       If  the	input  is  of  the Depth=8 variety, the output is PGM.	Otherwise, it is PBM.  Before Netpbm 10.53 (December
       2010), the program would not work on a Depth=8 icon.

       If the input is color, the output is still PGM (the program can't do any better because	developers  haven't  figured
       out how).  If you know the palette used by the Sun icon image, you can use pamlookup to convert the PGM output to the
       proper color Netpbm image.

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

ABOUT SUN ICONS
       It seems that this icon format was used in Sunview and was usable in its successor Openlook/Openwindows in Sun 4.1.1,
       which offered backward compatibility for Sunview, including the icons.  Sunview's desktop was  monochrome.   OpenWin‐
       dows  had  color	 icons.	 Sun 4 came with OpenWindows.  OpenWindows appears to have been an X-based gui so presumably
       the icons were mostly XPM files.

       So in addition to sunicontopnm, you should try xpmtoppm and xbmtopbm on icons from a Sun Workstation.

SEE ALSO
       pbmtosunicon(1), winicontoppm(1), xpmtoppm(1), xbmtopbm(1), infotopam(1), pbm(1) pgm(1)

HISTORY
       Jef Poskanzer wrote the program under the name icontopbm in 1988.

       In October 2010, Prophet Of The Way (afu@wta.att.ne.jp) converted it to use the	more  recent  "packed  PBM"  library
       functions, thus speeding it up

       Netpbm 10.53 (December 2010) renamed the program to sunicontopnm.  This name reflects the fact that there are lots of
       kinds of icons in the world besides the Sun variety, Windows ones being most popular.  It also takes into account the
       new Depth=8 capability (see below).

       Netpbm  10.53  (December	 2010)	added  the  ability  to	 work with Depth=8 icon input and input with 32 bit "items."
       Whereas the previous program always produced PBM output, the new program produced PGM in the Depth=8 case.

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/sunicontopnm.html

netpbm documentation				       23 October 2010				 Sunicontopnm User Manual(1)