1Ppmtopict User Manual(0)                              Ppmtopict User Manual(0)
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NAME

6       ppmtopict - convert a PPM image to a Macintosh PICT file
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SYNOPSIS

10       ppmtopict
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DESCRIPTION

16       This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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18       ppmtopict reads a PPM image as input and produces a Macintosh PICT file
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21       The generated file is only the data fork of a picture.  You will need a
22       program  such  as  mcvert to generate a Macbinary or a BinHex file that
23       contains the necessary information to identify the file as a PICT  file
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26       Even though PICT can have 2 and 4 bits per pixel, ppmtopict always gen‐
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LIMITATIONS

31       The picture size field is correct only if the output is to a file since
32       writing  into this field requires seeking backwards on a file.  However
33       the PICT documentation seems to suggest that this field is not critical
34       anyway since it is only the lower 16 bits of the picture size.
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SEE ALSO

38       picttoppm(1), ppm(1), mcvert
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AUTHOR

42       Copyright (C) 1990 by Ken Yap <ken@cs.rocester.edu>.
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46netpbm documentation             15 April 1990        Ppmtopict User Manual(0)