\ .\" This man page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source. .\" Do not hand-hack it! If you have bug fixes or improvements, please find .\" the corresponding HTML page on the Netpbm website, generate a patch .\" against that, and send it to the Netpbm maintainer. .TH "Pbmtomda User Manual" 0 "3 June 1999" "netpbm documentation" .UN lbAB .SH NAME pbmtomda - convert a PBM image to a Microdesign .mda .UN lbAC .SH SYNOPSIS \fBpbmtomda\fP [\fB-d\fP] [\fB-i\fP] [\fB--\fP] [\fIpbmfile\fP] .UN lbAD .SH DESCRIPTION .PP This program is part of .BR Netpbm (1) . .PP \fBpbmtomda\fP reads a PBM image as input and produces a MicroDesign 2 area file (.MDA) as output. .PP If you do not specify \fIpbmfile\fP, \fBpbmtomda\fP uses Standard Input. .UN lbAE .SH OPTIONS .TP \fB-d\fP Halve the height of the output file, to compensate for the aspect ratio used in MicroDesign files. .TP \fB-i\fP Invert the colors used. .TP \fB--\fP End of options (use this if the filename starts with '-') .UN lbAF .SH LIMITATIONS There's no way to produce files in MicroDesign 3 format. MD3 itself and .BR mdatopbm (1) can read files in either format. .UN lbAG .SH SEE ALSO .BR mdatopbm (1) , .BR pbm (5) .UN lbAH .SH AUTHOR Copyright (C) 1999 John Elliott <\fIjce@seasip.demon.co.uk\fP>.