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>.

                             15 April 1990                    ppmtopict(1)

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