NAME

       pamtopdbimg - convert a Netpbm image to a Palm Pilot Image Viewer PDB Image

SYNOPSIS

       pamtopdbimg

       [-notefile=filename]    [-title=text]    [-compressed]   [-uncompressed]   [-maybecompressed]   [-4depth]
       [-fixedtime]

       [netpbmfile]

DESCRIPTION

       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       pamtopdbimg reads a Netpbm image as input and produced a Palm Pilot Image Viewer image (and Image  record
       in a PDB file) as output.

       If  the  Netpbm  image  is black and white, the Pilot image is monochrome.  Otherwise, the Pilot image is
       either 4-level or 16-level grayscale, depending on the -4depth option.

OPTIONS

       In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably  -quiet,  see   Common
       Options ), pamtopdbimg recognizes the following command line options:

       -title=text
              The title of the image, to be included in the image.

       -compressed

       -uncompressed

       -maybecompressed
              You  may  specify only one of these.  -compressed says to generate the image in compressed format.
              -uncompressed says to generate  the  image  in  uncompressed  format.   -maybecompressed  says  to
              generate  whichever format is smaller (the compression algorithm sometimes actually makes the data
              larger).

       -4depth
              This option makes pamtopdbimg create the image in 16-level grayscale (4 bits  per  pixel)  format.
              If you don't specify this, pamtopdbimg uses 4-level (2 bits per pixel) format.

              This option has no effect when the input is black and white (maxval 1).  In that case, pamtopdbimg
              generates the monochrome (1 bit per pixel) format regardless.

       -notefile=filename
              Attach the note in the specified file to the image.

              If you don't specify this, pamtopdbimg does not attach any note.

       -fixedtime
              Fake  the  mtime and ctime vaues in the PDB image with a value that is the same every time you run
              the program.  This facilitates testing and verification because it means with the same  input  you
              always get the same output.

              This option was new in Netpbm 10.98 (March 2022).

SEE ALSO

       pdbimgtopam(1), palmtopnm(1), pam(1),

HISTORY

       pamtopdbimg  was  new  in  Netpbm 10.52 (September 2010).  It was modelled after Eric A. Howe's imgvtopbm
       package, which dates back to September 1997.

DOCUMENT SOURCE

       This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.  The  master  documentation
       is at

              http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamtopdbimg.html

netpbm documentation                              12 March 2022                       Pamtopdbimg User Manual(1)