1Ppmtoterm User Manual(0)                              Ppmtoterm User Manual(0)
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NAME

6       ppmtoterm - convert a PPM image to a ANSI ISO 6429 ascii image
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SYNOPSIS

10       ppmtoterm
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14       All  options  can  be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.  You
15       may use two hyphens instead of one.  You may separate  an  option  name
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DESCRIPTION

20       This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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22       This program tries to produce an accurate representation of a PPM image
23       on an terminal that implements the ANSI ISO 6429 standard.  It  aproxi‐
24       mates  colors, finding the minimum cartesian distance between the input
25       RGB vectors and the ones in the generated palette.   As  the  available
26       color palette is somewhat restricted, you get the best results when the
27       colors in the original image are few and the RGB intensities are  close
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30       You  can  usually  get  good results with cartoons or images with plain
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34       The  output  image has one line for each row and one character for each
35       column of the input image.  E.g. an 80 pixel  by  25  pixel  PPM  image
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37       your image fit properly on your screen.
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39       The image starts at the current cursor position on the terminal screen.
40       Each  successive  row starts at Column 0 on the screen.  If you want to
41       shift the image up or down, for example to center it, use pnmpad on the
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44       This  program  was  born  with  the  objective of displaying nice color
45       images on the linux console, e.g. a proper logo at Linux boot.
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47       pbmto4425 does a similar thing for black and white images,  using  line
48       drawing characters, on some terminals.
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OPTIONS

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SEE ALSO

57       pamscale(1), pamcut(1), pbmtoascii(1), pbmto4425(1), ppm(1)
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AUTHOR

62       Copyright (C) 2002 by Ero Carrera.
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HISTORY

67       This program was new in Netpbm 10.9 (August 2002).
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