1Ppmdither User Manual(0)                              Ppmdither User Manual(0)
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NAME

6       ppmdither - ordered dither for color images
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SYNOPSIS

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20       [netpbmfile]
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22       All  options  can  be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.  You
23       may use two hyphens instead of one to designate an option.  You may use
24       either  white  space  or  an equals sign between an option name and its
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DESCRIPTION

30       This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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32       ppmdither reads a Netpbm image as input, and applies dithering to it to
33       reduce the number of colors used down to the specified number of shades
34       for each primary.  It produces a PPM image as output.
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36       The default number of shades is 5 red, 9 green, and 5 blue, for a total
37       of  225  colors.   To convert the image to a binary rgb format suitable
38       for primitive color printers, use -red=2 -green=2 -blue=2.
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40       You can do another kind of dither -- Floyd-Steinberg --  with  pnmquant
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OPTIONS

45       In  addition  to  the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
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47        Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ), ppmdither recognizes  the
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53               The  size  of  the dithering matrix.  The dithering matrix is a
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58       -red=n The number of red shades to be used, including black; minimum of
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65              The number of green shades to be used, including black;  minimum
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SEE ALSO

80       pamditherbw(1), pamdepth(1), pnmquant(1), pnmremap(1), ppm(1)
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AUTHOR

84       Copyright (C) 1991 by Christos Zoulas.
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DOCUMENT SOURCE

87       This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman'  from  HTML
88       source.  The master documentation is at
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90              http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppmdither.html
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