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## NAME
       ppmqvga - 8 plane quantization

## SYNOPSIS
       ppmqvga [ options ] [ input file ]

## DESCRIPTION
       **ppmqvga** quantizes PPM files to 8 planes, with optional Floyd-Steinberg dithering.  Input is a
       PPM file from the file named, or standard input of no file is provided.

### Options
### -d

### -q

### -v
       mation  on the resulting mapping. May be repeated to generate loads of internal table output,
       but generally only useful once.

## EXAMPLES
       ppmqvga -d my_image.ppm | ppmtogif >my_image.gif

       tgatoppm zombie.tga | ppmqvga | ppmtotif > zombie.tif

## SEE ALSO
       ppmquant

## DIAGNOSTICS
       Error messages if problems, various levels of optional progress reporting.

## LIMITATIONS
       none known.

## AUTHOR
       Original by Lyle Rains (<lrains@netcom.com>) as ppmq256 and ppmq256fs combined, documented, and
       enhanced by Bill Davidsen (<davidsen@crd.ge.com>)

## Copyright
       Copyright 1991,1992 by Bill Davidsen, all rights reserved.  The program and documentation may
       be freely distributed by anyone in source or binary format. Please clearly note any changes.



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