picttoppm(1)            UNIX System V(16 January 1990)             picttoppm(1)


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

SYNOPSIS
      picttoppm [-verbose] [pictfile]

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.

OPTIONS
      -v    Turns on verbose mode which prints a a whole bunch of information
            that only picttoppm hackers really care about.

BUGS
      The PICT file format is a general drawing format.  picttoppm only
      supports a small subset of its operations but is still very useful for
      files produced by scanning software.  In particular, text added to a
      scanned image will be silently ignored.

SEE ALSO
      Inside Macintosh volume 5, ppmtopict(1), ppm(5)

AUTHOR
      Copyright 1989 George Phillips




























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