Ppmtopict User Manual(0)                              Ppmtopict User Manual(0)



NAME
       ppmtopict - convert a PPM image to a Macintosh PICT file


SYNOPSIS
       ppmtopict

       [ppmfile]


DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1)

       ppmtopict reads a PPM image as input and produces a Macintosh PICT file
       as output.

       The generated file is only the data fork of a picture.  You will need a
       program such as mcvert to generate a Macbinary or a BinHex file that
       contains the necessary information to identify the file as a PICT file
       to MacOS.

       Even though PICT can have 2 and 4 bits per pixel, ppmtopict always
       generates an 8 bits per pixel file.


LIMITATIONS
       The picture size field is correct only if the output is to a file since
       writing into this field requires seeking backwards on a file.  However
       the PICT documentation seems to suggest that this field is not critical
       anyway since it is only the lower 16 bits of the picture size.


SEE ALSO
       picttoppm(1) , ppm(5) , mcvert


AUTHOR
       Copyright (C) 1990 by Ken Yap <ken@cs.rocester.edu>.

netpbm documentation             15 April 1990        Ppmtopict User Manual(0)