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ppmtopict(1)                           General Commands Manual                          ppmtopict(1)



NAME
       ppmtopict - convert a portable pixmap into a Macintosh PICT file

SYNOPSIS
       ppmtopict [ppmfile]

DESCRIPTION
       Reads a portable pixmap as input.  Produces a Macintosh PICT file as output.

       The  generated  file  is  only  the  data fork of a picture.  You will need a program such as
       mcvert to generate a Macbinary or a BinHex file that contains the  necessary  information  to
       identify the file as a PICT file to MacOS.

       Even  though  PICT  supports 2 and 4 bits per pixel, ppmtopict always generates an 8 bits per
       pixel file.

BUGS
       The picture size field is only correct if the output is to a file  since  writing  into  this
       field  requires seeking backwards on a file.  However the PICT documentation seems to suggest
       that this field is not critical anyway since it is only the lower  16  bits  of  the  picture
       size.

SEE ALSO
       picttoppm(1), ppm(5), mcvert(1)

AUTHOR
       Copyright (C) 1990 by Ken Yap <ken AT cs.edu>.



                                            15 April 1990                               ppmtopict(1)