man > ilbmtoppm(1)

TLDR: ilbmtoppm (tldr-pages)

Convert an ILBM file to a PPM image.

  • Convert an ILBM file to a PPM image
    ilbmtoppm {{path/to/file.ilbm}} > {{path/to/file.ppm}}
  • Use the specified color to "show through" where the image is transparent
    ilbmtoppm {{-t|-transparent}} {{color}} {{path/to/file.ilbm}} > {{path/to/file.ppm}}
  • Ignore the chunk with the specified chunk ID
    ilbmtoppm {{-ig|-ignore}} {{chunk_id}} {{path/to/file.ilbm}} > {{path/to/file.ppm}}
  • Store the input's transparency information to the specified PBM file
    ilbmtoppm {{-m|-maskfile}} {{path/to/maskfile.pbm}} {{path/to/file.ilbm}} > {{path/to/file.ppm}}
Ilbmtoppm User Manual(1)               General Commands Manual              Ilbmtoppm User Manual(1)

NAME
       ilbmtoppm - convert an ILBM file into a PPM image


SYNOPSIS
       ilbmtoppm [-ignore<chunkID>] [ -isham | -isnotham | -isehb | -isnotehb | -isdeep | -isnotdeep
       ] [-cmaponly] [-adjustcolors] [-transparent color] [-maskfile filename [-verbose] [ILBMfile]



DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       ilbmtoppm  reads an IFF ILBM file as input and produces a PPM image as output.  ilbmtoppm can
       handle the following ILBM types:



       •      Normal ILBMs with 1-16 planes.

       •      Amiga Extra_Halfbrite (EHB)

       •      Amiga HAM with 3-16 planes.

       •      24 bit.

       •      Multiplatte (normal or HAM) pictures.

       •      Color map (BMHD + CMAP chunk only, nPlanes = 0).

       •      Unofficial direct color.  1-16 planes for each color component.


       ilbmtoppm uses these ILBM chunks: BMHD, CMAP, CAMG (only HAM & EHB flags  used),  PCHG,  BODY
       unofficial  DCOL  chunk  to identify direct color ILBM.  It ignores these chunks: GRAB, DEST,
       SPRT, CRNG, CCRT, CLUT, DPPV, DRNG, EPSF.  It ignores, but displays in verbose  mode,  these:
       NAME, AUTH, (c), ANNO, DPI.  It skips chunks whose type it doesn't recognize.


OPTIONS
       In  addition  to  the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet,
       see ]8;;index.html#commonoptions\ Common Options]8;;\ ), ilbmtoppm recognizes the following command line options:




       -transparent color
              This is the color that should "show through" in places where the image is transparent.

              color is like the ]8;;libnetpbm_image.html#colorname\argument of the pnm_parsecolor() library routine]8;;\ .


       -verbose
              Give some information about the ILBM file.


       -ignore chunkID
              Skip a chunk.  chunkID is the 4-letter  IFF  chunk  identifier  of  the  chunk  to  be
              skipped.


       -isham | -isehb
              Treat  the input file as a HAM or Extra_Halfbrite picture, even if these flags are not
              set in the CAMG chunk (or if there is no CAMG chunk).


       -maskfile filename
              This names a file for ilbmtoppm to create with the  image's  transparency  mask.   The
              mask  file is a PBM image which maps to the input image with white pixels representing
              transparent pixels in the image and black pixels representing opaque pixels.

              If you don't specify this, or the image does  not  contain  transparency  information,
              ilbmtoppm does not create a mask file.


       -cmaponly
              With this option, ilbmtoppm generates a PPM of the ILBM's color map, not the image it‐
              self.

              ilbmtoppm  does  the same thing even without -cmaponly if the ILBM is a pure color map
              stream (it has a bitmap header with an nplanes value of zero or has no BODY chunk.


       -adjustcolors
              If all colors in the CMAP have a value of less then 16, ilbmtoppm assumes a 4-bit col‐
              ormap and gives a warning.  With this option the colormap is scaled to 8 bits.





LIMITATIONS
       The multipalette PCHG BigLineChanges and Huffman decompression code is untested.


REFERENCES
       Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual - Devices (3rd Ed.)  Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-56775-X


SEE ALSO
       ppmtoilbm(1), ppm(1)


AUTHORS
       Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.

       Modified October 1993 by Ingo Wilken (Ingo.Wilken AT informatik.de)

DOCUMENT SOURCE
       This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from  HTML  source.   The  master
       documentation is at

              http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ilbmtoppm.html

netpbm documentation                      12 November 2014                  Ilbmtoppm User Manual(1)
ilbmtoppm(1)
NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS
-transparent color -verbose -ignore chunkID -isham | -isehb -maskfile filename -cmaponly -adjustcolors
LIMITATIONS REFERENCES SEE ALSO AUTHORS DOCUMENT SOURCE

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