# man > mtvtoppm(1)

> **TLDR:** Convert an MTV or PRT ray tracer file to a PPM image.
>
- Convert an MTV or PRT ray tracer file to a PPM image:
  `mtvtoppm {{path/to/file.mtv}} > {{path/to/output.ppm}}`

*Source: tldr-pages*

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## NAME
       mtvtoppm - convert output from an MTV or PRT ray tracer into a PPM


## SYNOPSIS
       **mtvtoppm **[_mtvfile_]


## DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of [**Netpbm**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/Netpbm/1/markdown).

       **mtvtoppm **reads an input file from Mark VanDeWettering's MTV ray tracer and produces a PPM im‐
       age as output.

       The PRT raytracer also produces this format.


## OPTIONS
       There  are  no  command line options defined specifically for **mtvtoppm**, but it recognizes the
       options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (See ]8;;index.html#commonoptions\ Common Options]8;;\ .)


## SEE ALSO
       [**ppm**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ppm/1/markdown)


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

## 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/mtvtoppm.html>**

netpbm documentation                      02 February 1989                   _Mtvtoppm_ _User_ [_Manual_(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/Manual/1/markdown)