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6 pngtopnm - convert a PNG image into a PNM image
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10 pngtopnm [-verbose] [-alpha | -mix] [-background=color] [-gamma=value]
11 [-text=filename] [-time] [pngfile]
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21 This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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23 pngtopnm was obsoleted by pngtopam(1), introduced with Netpbm 10.44
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28 Starting in Release 10.48, pngtopnm is just an alias for pngtopam.
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30 pngtopnm remained in the Netpbm package through Release 10.47 because
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