pcxtoppm - Man Page

• Convert a PCX file to a PPM image: pcxtoppm path/to/file.pcx > path/to/file.ppm
• Use a predefined standard palette even if the PCX file provides one: pcxtoppm -stdpalette path/to/file.pcx > path/to/file.ppm
• Print information on the PCX header to stdout: pcxtoppm -verbose path/to/file.pcx > path/to/file.ppm

tldr.sh

pcxtoppm [-stdpalette] [-verbose] [pcxfile]

This program is part of Netpbm(1).

pcxtoppm reads a PCX file as input and produces a PPM image as output.

pcxtoppm recognizes the following PCX types:

• Colormapped files with 2-16 colors.

  "Packed pixel" format (1, 2 or 4 bits/pixel, 1 plane) or bitplane format (1 bit/pixel, 1-4 planes).  The program uses a predefined standard palette if the image does not provide one. "Does not provide one" means the palette in the PCX header is completely black.

• Colormapped files with 256 colors.

  8 bits/pixel, 1 plane, colormap at the end of the file.

• 24bit truecolor files.

  24bit RGB: 8 bits/pixel, 3 planes.

• 32bit truecolor files.

  24bit RGB + 8bit intensity: 8 bits/pixel, 4 planes.

In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see Common Options ), pcxtoppm recognizes the following command line options:

-stdpalette

This option causes pcxtoppm to use its predefined standard  palette even if the PCX image provides its own.  This is meaningful only for an image in the 16 color paletted PCX format.

The image may appear to provide its own palette but in fact be created by a program too primitive to understand palettes that created a random palette by accident.

-verbose

Report details of the PCX header.

ppmtopcx(1), ppm(1)

Copyright 1990 by Michael Davidson.

Modified 1994 by Ingo Wilken (Ingo.Wilken@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)

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

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

ppmtopcx(1).