1Sunicontopnm User Manual(0)                        Sunicontopnm User Manual(0)
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NAME

6       sunicontopnm - convert a Sun icon into a Netpbm image
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SYNOPSIS

11       sunicontopnm [iconfile]
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DESCRIPTION

16       This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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18       sunicontopnm  reads a Sun icon as input and produces a PBM or PGM image
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21       If the input is of the Depth=8 variety, the output is PGM.   Otherwise,
22       it  is PBM.  Before Netpbm 10.53 (December 2010), the program would not
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25       If the input is color, the output is still PGM (the  program  can't  do
26       any  better  because  developers haven't figured out how).  If you know
27       the palette used by the Sun icon image, you can use pamlookup  to  con‐
28       vert the PGM output to the proper color Netpbm image.
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OPTIONS

33       There  are  no  command  line options defined specifically for sunicon‐
34       topnm, but it recognizes the options common to all  programs  based  on
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36        Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ .)
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ABOUT SUN ICONS

40       It  seems  that  this icon format was used in Sunview and was usable in
41       its successor Openlook/Openwindows in Sun 4.1.1, which offered backward
42       compatibility  for Sunview, including the icons.  Sunview's desktop was
43       monochrome.  OpenWindows had color icons.  Sun 4 came with OpenWindows.
44       OpenWindows appears to have been an X-based gui so presumably the icons
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47       So in addition to sunicontopnm, you should try xpmtoppm and xbmtopbm on
48       icons from a Sun Workstation.
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SEE ALSO

53       pbmtosunicon(1),   winicontoppm(1),   xpmtoppm(1),  xbmtopbm(1),  info‐
54       topam(1), pbm(1) pgm(1)
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HISTORY

58       Jef Poskanzer wrote the program under the name icontopbm in 1988.
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60       In October 2010, Prophet Of The Way (afu@wta.att.ne.jp) converted it to
61       use the more recent "packed PBM" library functions, thus speeding it up
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63       Netpbm 10.53 (December 2010) renamed the program to sunicontopnm.  This
64       name reflects the fact that there are lots of kinds  of  icons  in  the
65       world  besides  the  Sun  variety, Windows ones being most popular.  It
66       also takes into account the new Depth=8 capability (see below).
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68       Netpbm 10.53 (December 2010) added the ability  to  work  with  Depth=8
69       icon input and input with 32 bit "items."  Whereas the previous program
70       always produced PBM output, the new program produced PGM in the Depth=8
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DOCUMENT SOURCE

74       This  manual  page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
75       source.  The master documentation is at
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77              http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/sunicontopnm.html
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