ppmtopict(1)             UNIX System V(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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