1Bmptopnm User Manual(0)                                Bmptopnm User Manual(0)
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NAME

6       bmptopnm - convert a BMP file into a PBM, PGM, or PNM image
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SYNOPSIS

10       bmptopnm
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DESCRIPTION

18       This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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20       bmptopnm reads a Microsoft Windows or OS/2 BMP file as input.  and pro‐
21       duces a PBM, PGM, or PNM image as output.  If the input is  colormapped
22       and  contains only black and white, the output is PBM.  If the input is
23       colormapped and contains only black white and gray, the output is  PGM.
24       Otherwise, the output is PPM.
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26       bmptopnm  understands  BMP  files  compressed  with run length encoding
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30       Before  Netpbm  10.75 (June 2016), bmptopnm could not convert Version 4
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33       bmptopnm cannot convert BMP files compressed with JPEG or PNG encoding.
34       It  recognizes  the  compression  and  issues an error message.  Before
35       Netpbm 10.32 (February 2006), bmptopnm couldn't convert RLE  BMP  files
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38       Before  Netpbm  10.18  (September 2003), this program could not convert
39       BMP images with the BI_BITFIELDS format ("compression type").  It would
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42       bmptopnm  cannot  convert  OS/2  BMP files with 16 bits per pixel (only
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SEE ALSO

51       ppmtobmp(1), ppmtowinicon(1), ppm(1)
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AUTHOR

55       Copyright (C) 1992 by David W. Sanderson.
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DOCUMENT SOURCE

58       This  manual  page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
59       source.  The master documentation is at
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61              http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/bmptopnm.html
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63netpbm documentation           20 September 2010       Bmptopnm User Manual(0)
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