1CPTCONT(1) User commands CPTCONT(1)
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6 cptcont - create a continuous GMT colour palette table (cpt) file based
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10 cptcont [-h] [-m] [-o file] [-p percent] [-v] [-V] [file]
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13 The cptcont program converts a (possibly) discontinuous colour palette
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15 replacing the endpoints of segments at which a discontinuity occurs by
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18 The program will read from stdin if a file is not specified as the
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22 --backtrace-file path
23 Specify a file to which to write a formatted backtrace. The file
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27 --backtrace-format format
28 Specify the format of the backtrace written to the files specified
29 by --backtrace-file, one of plain, xml or json.
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31 -h, --help
32 Brief help.
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34 -m, --midpoint
35 Split each input segment into two output segments with the colour
36 at the common point being the colour of the original segment. This
37 gives a more faithful conversion of gradients with "corners", such
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40 -o, --output file
41 Write the output to file, rather than stdout.
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43 -p, --partial percentage
44 The endpoints are moved the specified pecentage towards the mean
45 colour, so that a value of 100 (the default) moves the endpoints to
46 the mean colour, 50 moves them half-way there, and so on.
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50 -v, --verbose
51 Verbose operation.
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53 -V, --version
54 Version information.
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57 Create an almost-continuous table:
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59 cptcont -v -p 66 -o new.cpt old.cpt
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69CPTUTILS 8 July 2020 CPTCONT(1)