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NAME

6       bmptopnm - convert a BMP file into a PBM, PGM, or PNM image
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SYNOPSIS

10       bmptopnm
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DESCRIPTION

18       This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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20       bmptopnm reads a Microsoft Windows or OS/2 BMP file as input.  and pro‐
21       duces a PBM, PGM, or PNM image as output.  If the input is  colormapped
22       and  contains only black and white, the output is PBM.  If the input is
23       colormapped and contains only black white and gray, the output is  PGM.
24       Otherwise, the output is PPM.
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26       bmptopnm  understands  BMP  files  compressed  with run length encoding
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30       Before  Netpbm  10.75 (June 2016), bmptopnm could not convert Version 4
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34       It  recognizes  the  compression  and  issues an error message.  Before
35       Netpbm 10.32 (February 2006), bmptopnm couldn't convert RLE8 BMP  files
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37       RLE4 (between 10.32 and 10.85, it would act like it recognized the for‐
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40       Before  Netpbm  10.18  (September 2003), this program could not convert
41       BMP images with the BI_BITFIELDS format ("compression type").  It would
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44       bmptopnm  cannot  convert  OS/2  BMP files with 16 bits per pixel (only
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OPTIONS

53       In  addition  to  the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
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55        Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ), bmptopnm  recognizes  the
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SEE ALSO

68       ppmtobmp(1), ppmtowinicon(1), ppm(1)
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AUTHOR

72       Copyright (C) 1992 by David W. Sanderson.
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DOCUMENT SOURCE

75       This  manual  page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
76       source.  The master documentation is at
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