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6 sldtoppm - convert an AutoCAD slide file to a PPM image
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10 sldtoppm [-adjust] [-dir] [{-height|-ysize} s] [-info] [{-lib|-Lib}
11 name] [-scale s] [-verbose] [{-width|-xsize} s] [slidefile]
12 All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.
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17 This program is part of Netpbm(1).
18 sldtoppm reads an AutoCAD® slide file and outputs a PPM image. If you
20 don't specify slidefile, sldtoppm reads input from Standard Input.
21 sldtoppm uses the ppmdraw library to convert the vector and polygon
22 information in the slide file to a raster; see the file ppmdraw.h for
23 details on this package.
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27 In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
28 (most notably -quiet, see
29 Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ), sldtoppm recognizes the
30 following command line options:
31 -adjust
35 If the display on which the slide file was created had non-
36 square pixels, when you process the slide with sldtoppm and
37 don't specify -adjust, sldtoppm issues the following warning;
38 Warning - pixels on source screen were non-square.
40 Specifying -adjust will correct the image width to compensate. Speci‐
42 fying the -adjust option causes sldtoppm to scale the width of the
43 image so that pixels in the resulting PPM image are square (and hence
44 circles appear as true circles, not ellipses). The scaling is per‐
45 formed in the vector domain, before scan converting the objects. The
46 results are, therefore, superior in appearance to what you'd obtain
47 were you to perform the equivalent scaling with pamscale after the bit‐
48 map had been created.
49 -dir The input is assumed to be an AutoCAD slide library file. A
52 directory listing each slide in the library is printed on stan‐
53 dard error.
54 -height size
57 Scales the image in the vector domain so it is size pixels in
58 height. If you don't specify -width or -xsize, sldtoppm adjusts
59 the width to preserve the pixel aspect ratio.
60 -info Dump the slide file header on standard error, displaying the
63 original screen size and aspect ratio among other information.
64 -lib name
67 Extracts the slide with the given name from the slide library
68 given as input. sldtoppm converts the specified name to upper
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70 -Lib name
73 Extracts the slide with the given name from the slide library
74 given as input. sldtoppm uses name in the case specified; it
75 does not convert it to upper case.
76 -scale s
79 Scales the image by factor s, which may be any floating point
80 value greater than zero. sldtoppm does the scaling after aspect
81 ratio adjustment, if any. Since it does the scaling in the vec‐
82 tor domain, before rasterisation, the results look much better
83 than running the output of sldtoppm through pamscale.
84 -verbose
87 Dumps the slide file header and lists every vector and polygon
88 to Standard Error.
89 -width size
92 Scales the image in the vector domain so it is size pixels wide.
93 If you don't specify -height or -ysize, sldtoppm adjusts the
94 height to preserve the pixel aspect ratio.
95 -xsize size
98 Scales the image in the vector domain so it is size pixels wide.
99 If you don't specify -height or -ysize, sldtoppm adjusts the
100 height to preserve the pixel aspect ratio.
101 -ysize size
104 Scales the image in the vector domain so it is size pixels in
105 height. If you don't specify -width or -xsize, sldtoppm adjusts
106 the width to preserve the pixel aspect ratio.
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112 sldtoppm can convert only Level 2 slides. Level 1 format has been
113 obsolete since the advent of AutoCAD Release 9 in 1987, and was not
114 portable across machine architectures.
115 Slide library items with names containing 8 bit (such as ISO) or 16 bit
117 (Kanji, for example) characters may not be found when chosen with the
118 -lib option unless sldtoppm was built with character set conversion
119 functions appropriate to the locale. You can always retrieve slides
120 from libraries regardless of the character set by using the -Lib option
121 and specifying the precise name of library member. Use the -dir option
122 to list the slides in a library if you're unsure of the exact name.
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126 AutoCAD Reference Manual: Slide File Format, pamscale(1), ppm(1)
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130 John Walker
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138 Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
140 documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, with‐
141 out any conditions or restrictions. This software is provided "as is"
142 without express or implied warranty.
143 AutoCAD and Autodesk are registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc.
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147 This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
148 source. The master documentation is at
149 http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/sldtoppm.html
151netpbm documentation 10 October 1991 Sldtoppm User Manual(0)