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## NAME
       pdbimgtopam - convert a Palm Pilot Image Viewer PDB Image to a PAM image


## SYNOPSIS
### pdbimgtopam

       [**-notefile=_**filename_] [**-verbose**]

       [_pdbimgfile_]


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

       **pdbimgtopam  **reads a Palm Pilot Image Viewer image (and Image record in a PDB file) as input,
       from Standard Input or _palmfile_, and produces a PAM image as output.

       If the Pilot image is monochrome, the PAM output has maxval 1.  Otherwise, it has maxval 255.
       Note that Pilot images are always monochrome.  The PAM image has tuple type GRAYSCALE.



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



### -verbose
              Display various interesting information about the input file and process.


### -notefile=_
              Write the image note (if any) to the specified file.

              If you don't specify this, **pdbimgtopam **ignores any image note.




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


## HISTORY
       **pdbimgtopam  **was  new in Netpbm 10.52 (September 2010).  It was modelled after Eric A. Howe's
       **imgvtopbm **package, which dates back to September 1997.

## 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/pdbimgtopam.html>**

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