Pcxtoppm User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Pcxtoppm User Manual(1)
NAME
pcxtoppm - convert a PCX file into a PPM image
SYNOPSIS
pcxtoppm [-stdpalette] [-verbose] [pcxfile]
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
pcxtoppm reads a PCX file as input and produces a PPM image as output.
pcxtoppm recognizes the following PCX types:
• Colormapped files with 2-16 colors.
"Packed pixel" format (1, 2 or 4 bits/pixel, 1 plane) or bit-
plane format (1 bit/pixel, 1-4 planes). The program uses a pre-
defined standard palette if the image does not provide one.
"Does not provide one" means the palette in the PCX header is
completely black.
• Colormapped files with 256 colors.
8 bits/pixel, 1 plane, colormap at the end of the file.
• 24bit truecolor files.
24bit RGB: 8 bits/pixel, 3 planes.
• 32bit truecolor files.
24bit RGB + 8bit intensity: 8 bits/pixel, 4 planes.
OPTIONS
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(most notably -quiet, see
Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ), pcxtoppm recognizes the
following command line options:
-stdpalette
This option causes pcxtoppm to use its predefined standard pal-
ette even if the PCX image provides its own. This is meaningful
only for an image in the 16 color paletted PCX format.
The image may appear to provide its own palette but in fact be
created by a program too primitive to understand palettes that
created a random palette by accident.
-verbose
Report details of the PCX header.
SEE ALSO
ppmtopcx(1), ppm(1)
AUTHORS
Copyright 1990 by Michael Davidson.
Modified 1994 by Ingo Wilken (Ingo.Wilken@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
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/pcxtoppm.html
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