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- picttoppm(1) AMIGA (29 November 1991) picttoppm(1)
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- NAME
- picttoppm - convert a Macintosh PICT file into a portable
- pixmap
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- SYNOPSIS
- picttoppm [-verbose] [-fullres] [-noheader] [-quickdraw] [-
- fontdirfile] [pictfile]
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- DESCRIPTION
- Reads a PICT file (version 1 or 2) and outputs a portable
- pixmap. Useful as the first step in converting a scanned
- image to something that can be displayed on Unix.
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- OPTIONS
- -fontdir file
- Make the list of BDF fonts in ``file'' available for
- use by picttoppm when drawing text. See below for the
- format of the fontdir file.
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- -fullres
- Force any images in the PICT file to be output with at
- least their full resolution. A PICT file may indicate
- that a contained image is to be scaled down before
- output. This option forces images to retain their
- sizes and prevent information loss. Use of this option
- disables all PICT operations except images.
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- -noheader
- Do not skip the 512 byte header that is present on all
- PICT files. This is useful when you have PICT data
- that was not stored in the data fork of a PICT file.
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- -quickdraw
- Execute only pure quickdraw operations. In particular,
- turn off the interpretation of special PostScript
- printer operations.
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- -verbose
- Turns on verbose mode which prints a a whole bunch of
- information that only picttoppm hackers really care
- about.
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- BUGS
- The PICT file format is a general drawing format. picttoppm
- does not support all the drawing commands, but it does have
- full support for any image commands and reasonable support
- for line, rectangle, polgon and text drawing. It is useful
- for converting scanned images and some drawing conversion.
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- Memory is used very liberally with at least 6 bytes needed
- for every pixel. Large bitmap PICT files will likely run
- your computer out of memory.
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- picttoppm(1) AMIGA (29 November 1991) picttoppm(1)
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- FONT DIR FILE FORMAT
- picttoppm has a built in default font and your local
- installer probably provided adequate extra fonts. You can
- point picttoppm at more fonts which you specify in a font
- directory file. Each line in the file is either a comment
- line which must begin with ``#'' or font information. The
- font information consists of 4 whitespace spearated fields.
- The first is the font number, the second is the font size in
- pixels, the third is the font style and the fourth is the
- name of a BDF file containing the font. The BDF format is
- defined by the X window system and is not described here.
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- The font number indicates the type face. Here is a list of
- known font numbers and their faces.
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- 0 Chicago
- 1 application font
- 2 New York
- 3 Geneva
- 4 Monaco
- 5 Venice
- 6 London
- 7 Athens
- 8 San Franciso
- 9 Toronto
- 11 Cairo
- 12 Los Angeles
- 20 Times Roman
- 21 Helvetica
- 22 Courier
- 23 Symbol
- 24 Taliesin
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- The font style indicates a variation on the font. Multiple
- variations may apply to a font and the font style is the sum
- of the variation numbers which are:
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- 1 Boldface
- 2 Italic
- 4 Underlined
- 8 Outlined
- 16 Shadow
- 32 Condensed
- 64 Extended
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- Obviously the font defintions are strongly related to the
- Macintosh. More font numbers and information about fonts
- can be found in Macintosh documentation.
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- SEE ALSO
- Inside Macintosh volumes 1 and 5, ppmtopict(1), ppm(5)
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- picttoppm(1) AMIGA (29 November 1991) picttoppm(1)
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- AUTHOR
- Copyright 1993 George Phillips
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