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6 anytopnm - convert an arbitrary type of image file to PBM, PGM, or PPM
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15 This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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17 anytopnm converts the input image, which may be in any of about 100
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21 To determine the format of the input, anytopnm uses the file program
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33 gram to convert it. For example, if you invoke anytopnm on a GIF file,
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41 If file indicates that the input file is compressed (either via Unix
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79 This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
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