# phpman > man > hipstopgm(1)

> **TLDR:** Read a HIPS file as input and return a PGM image as output.
>
- Convert a HIPS file into a PGM image:
  `hipstopgm {{path/to/file.hips}}`
- Suppress all informational messages:
  `hipstopgm {{-q|-quiet}}`
- Display version:
  `hipstopgm {{-v|-version}}`

*Source: tldr-pages*

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## NAME
       hipstopgm - convert a HIPS file into a portable graymap

## SYNOPSIS
       **hipstopgm** [_hipsfile_]

## DESCRIPTION
       Reads a HIPS file as input.  Produces a portable graymap as output.

       If the HIPS file contains more than one frame in sequence, hipstopgm will concatenate all the
       frames vertically.

       HIPS is a format developed at the Human Information Processing Laboratory, NYU.

## SEE ALSO
       [pgm(5)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pgm/5/markdown)

## AUTHOR
       Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.



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