1Psidtopgm User Manual(0)                              Psidtopgm User Manual(0)
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NAME

6       psidtopgm - convert PostScript "image" data to a PGM image
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SYNOPSIS

10       psidtopgm width height bits/sample [imagedata]
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DESCRIPTION

14       This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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16       psidtopgm  reads  the  "image" data from a PostScript file as input and
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19       This program is obsoleted by pstopnm.
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21       What follows was written before pstopnm  existed.
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23       This is a very simple and limited program, and is here only because  so
24       many  people have asked for it.  To use it you have to manually extract
25       the readhexstring data portion from your PostScript file, and then give
26       the  width,  height,  and  bits/sample on the command line.  Before you
27       attempt this, you should at least read the description of  the  "image"
28       operator in the PostScript Language Reference Manual.
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30       It would probably not be too hard to write a script that uses this fil‐
31       ter to read a specific variety of PostScript image, but  the  variation
32       is  too great to make a general-purpose reader.  Unless, of course, you
33       want to write a full-fledged PostScript interpreter...
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SEE ALSO

37       pnmtops(1), pgm(1)
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AUTHOR

41       Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.
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DOCUMENT SOURCE

44       This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman'  from  HTML
45       source.  The master documentation is at
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47              http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/psidtopgm.html
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49netpbm documentation             02 August 89         Psidtopgm User Manual(0)