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- pgm(5) Unix Programmer's Manual pgm(5)
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- pgm - portable graymap file format
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- The portable graymap format is a lowest common denominator grayscale file
- format. The definition is as follows:
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- - A "magic number" for identifying the file type. A pgm file's magic
- number is the two characters "P2".
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- - Whitespace (blanks, TABs, CRs, LFs).
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- - A width, formatted as ASCII characters in decimal.
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- - Whitespace.
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- - A height, again in ASCII decimal.
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- - Whitespace.
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- - The maximum gray value, again in ASCII decimal.
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- - Whitespace.
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- - Width * height gray values, each in ASCII decimal, between 0 and the
- specified maximum value, separated by whitespace, starting at the top-
- left corner of the graymap, proceding in normal English reading order.
- A value of 0 means black, and the maximum value means white.
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- - Characters from a "#" to the next end-of-line are ignored (comments).
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- - No line should be longer than 70 characters.
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- Here is an example of a small graymap in this format:
- P2
- # feep.pgm
- 24 7
- 15
- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- 0 3 3 3 3 0 0 7 7 7 7 0 0 11 11 11 11 0 0 15 15 15 15 0
- 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 15 0
- 0 3 3 3 0 0 0 7 7 7 0 0 0 11 11 11 0 0 0 15 15 15 15 0
- 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
- 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 7 7 0 0 11 11 11 11 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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- Programs that read this format should be as lenient as possible,
- accepting anything that looks remotely like a graymap.
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- There is also a variant on the format, available by setting the RAWBITS
- option at compile time. This variant is different in the following ways:
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- - The "magic number" is "P5" instead of "P2".
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- pgm(5) Unix Programmer's Manual pgm(5)
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- - The gray values are stored as plain bytes, instead of ASCII decimal.
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- - No whitespace is allowed in the grays section, and only a single
- character of whitespace (typically a newline) is allowed after the
- maxval.
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- - The files are smaller and many times faster to read and write.
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- Note that this raw format can only be used for maxvals less than or equal
- to 255. If you use the _p_g_m library and try to write a file with a larger
- maxval, it will automatically fall back on the slower but more general
- plain format.
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- fitstopgm(1), fstopgm(1), hipstopgm(1), lispmtopgm(1), psidtopgm(1),
- rawtopgm(1), pgmbentley(1), pgmedge(1), pgmenhance(1), pgmhist(1),
- pgmnorm(1), pgmoil(1), pgmramp(1), pgmtofits(1), pgmtofs(1),
- pgmtolispm(1), pgmtopbm(1), pgmtops(1), pnm(5), pbm(5), ppm(5)
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- Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.
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