Ddbugtopbm User Manual(0)                            Ddbugtopbm User Manual(0)



NAME
       ddbugtopbm - convert Diddle or DiddleBug sketches to PBM files



SYNOPSIS
       ddbugtopbm


EXAMPLES
       ddbugtopbm </path/to/palm/backup/dir/DiddleBugDB.pdb

       ddbugtopbm </path/to/palm/backup/dir/DiddleDB.pdb

       ddbugtopbm </path/to/palm/backup/dir/DiddleIDB.pdb



DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1)

       ddbugtopbm converts all sketches present in a database used by the
       PalmOS programs Diddle or DiddleBug into appropriately-named PBM files.
       The backup copy of DiddleBug's database you should use as this
       program's input is usually called DiddleBugDB.pdb.  Or if you use the
       original Diddle, it has two separate DBs - DiddleDB.pdb, containing
       unnamed `scratch' sketches, and DiddleIDB.pdb, containing the saved
       (and named) sketches which are listed by its `index' option.  You can
       feed this program any of these three on standard input.


USING THE PROGRAM
       I recommend you not run ddbugtopbm from your Palm backup directory,
       i.e. don't run it from the directory the DB will normally be in.
       Instead, run it from some other directory (perhaps you could make a
       directory purely to hold the PBM files, just to keep things simple) and
       use an absolute or relative path to the DB.

       The filenames used for the output PBMs are based on the names given to
       each sketch; if you have an unnamed sketch, it's given a name along the
       lines of sketch-0123.pbm.

       While the named sketches will overwrite any existing PBM file with the
       same name, the unnamed ones won't - they'll just try using another
       filename.  (I think this is probably the right approach, as you can't
       really tell the unnamed sketches apart.)




LIMITATIONS
       The DiddleBug DB reader is only known to work with DBs from DiddleBug
       version 2.50. But it should probably work on later versions, and I
       think it'll work on DBs from version 2.15 as well.

       It might fall over if fed an empty database, and doesn't do much (if
       any) checking of the input.



AUTHOR
       Russell Marks (rus@svgalib.org).

       Mitch Blevins's decompression code is directly from DiddleBug itself,
       which like ddbugtopbm is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.


SEE ALSO
       palmtopnm(1) , pbm(5)


       Jens-Chr. Heyer's `didcon' script does something similar.


HISTORY
       ddbugtopbm was new in Netpbm 10.18 (August 2003).  It was written and
       independently distributed in August 2002.

netpbm documentation           21st August, 2002     Ddbugtopbm User Manual(0)