1Ppmtoppm User Manual(0)                                Ppmtoppm User Manual(0)
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NAME

6       ppmtoppm - copy PPM image
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SYNOPSIS

10       ppmtoppm
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DESCRIPTION

14       This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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16       ppmtoppm simply copies a PPM image from Standard Input to Standard Out‐
17       put.  This may seem an unnecessary duplication  of  cat,  but  remember
18       that  a  PPM program can read a PBM or PGM image, and the right kind of
19       PAM, as if it were PPM.  So ppmtoppm can read either a PBM, PGM, or PPM
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22       Even  that is of limited usefulness because of the fact that almost any
23       program to which you would feed the resulting PPM image could also just
24       take the original image directly.  However, sometimes you really need a
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27       When you know you have a PGM image and want a PPM image, pgmtoppm is  a
28       more  general  way to do that conversion.  When you know you have a PBM
29       image, use that and pbmtopgm.
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SEE ALSO

34       pgmtopgm(1),  pamtopam(1),   pamtopnm(1),   pgmtoppm(1),   pbmtopgm(1),
35       pbm(1), pgm(1), ppm(1),
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HISTORY

39       This program was added to Netpbm in Release 10.9 (September 2002).
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DOCUMENT SOURCE

42       This  manual  page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
43       source.  The master documentation is at
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45              http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppmtoppm.html
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47netpbm documentation             February 2007         Ppmtoppm User Manual(0)