1Pamrgbtopng User Manual(0)                          Pamrgbtopng User Manual(0)
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NAME

6       pamrgbatopng - convert PAM color/transparency image to PNG
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SYNOPSIS

10       pamrgbatopng [pamfile]
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12       Minimum  unique abbreviation of option is acceptable.  You may use dou‐
13       ble hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options.   You  may  use
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DESCRIPTION

19       This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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21       pamrgbatopng reads a PAM image with the RGB_ALPHA tuple type  (a  color
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25       The input image if from the file named  by  the  pamfile  argument,  or
26       Standard  Input if you don't specify pamfile.  The output goes to Stan‐
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29       The maxval of the input image must be 255.  You  can  use  pamdepth  to
30       change the maxval of an image to 255 if necessary.
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32       pnmtopng(1)isamuchmorepowerful  program  for generating PNG images from
33       Netpbm images, but it cannot  take  PAM  images  with  transparency  as
34       input.   To  supply  transparency  information, you must supply it in a
35       separate PGM image.  That makes it considerably less convenient to use.
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40       Netpbm's strategic direction is to add to pnmtopng all the capabilities
41       of pamrgbatopng and retire pamrtbatopng.  But there's no  telling  when
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OPTIONS

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SEE ALSO

51       pam(1) pnmtopng(1) pngtopnm(1)
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HISTORY

55       pamrgbatopng was new in Netpbm 10.30 (October 2005).
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