Ppmtopgm User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Ppmtopgm User Manual(1)
NAME
ppmtopgm - convert a PPM image to a PGM image
SYNOPSIS
ppmtopgm
[ppmfile]
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
ppmtopgm reads a PPM as input and produces a PGM as output. The output
is a "black and white" rendering of the original image, as in a black
and white photograph. The quantization formula ppmtopgm uses is y =
.299 r + .587 g + .114 b.
The dimensions and maxval of the output are the same as the input.
Note that with only one color plane, there are far fewer brightnesses
that can be represented with the same maxval than with three color
planes, so you may want to increase the maxval of the input with
pamdepth before giving it to ppmtopgm to avoid loss of information.
For example, with a maxval of 1, there are 8 brightnesses that are pos-
sible in a PPM (though some of them are barely distinguishable), but
only 2 brightness levels possible in a PGM.
Note that although there is a pgmtoppm program, it is not necessary for
simple conversions from pgm to ppm , because any ppm program can read
pgm (and pbm ) files automatically. pgmtoppm is for colorizing a pgm
file. Also, see ppmtorgb3 for a different way of converting color to
gray. And ppmdist generates a grayscale image from a color image, but
in a way that makes it easy to differentiate the original colors, not
necessarily a way that looks like a black and white photograph.
OPTIONS
There are no command line options defined specifically for ppmtopgm,
but it recognizes the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(See
Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ .)
QUOTE
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colors from our sight
Red is gray, and yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is a quantization error.
SEE ALSO
pgmtoppm(1), ppmtorgb3(1), rgb3toppm(1), ppmdist(1), ppm(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/ppmtopgm.html
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