ppmtopict(1)          AMIGA (15 April 1990)          ppmtopict(1)



     NAME
          ppmtopict - convert a portable pixmap into a Macintosh PICT
          file

     SYNOPSIS
          ppmtopict [ppmfile]

     DESCRIPTION
          Reads a portable pixmap as input.  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 supports 2 and 4 bits per pixel, ppmtopict
          always generates an 8 bits per pixel file.

     BUGS
          The picture size field is only correct 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(1)

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
























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