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.

OPTIONS

       There  are  no  command  line  options  defined specifically for ppmtopict, but it recognizes the options
       common to all programs based on libnetpbm (See  Common Options .)

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(1), mcvert

AUTHOR

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

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/ppmtopict.html

netpbm documentation                              15 April 1990                         Ppmtopict User Manual(1)