pnmtoxwd - Man Page
convert a PNM into an X11 window dump
Examples (TL;DR)
- Convert a PNM image file to XWD:
pnmtoxwd path/to/input_file.pnm > path/to/output_file.xwd - Produce the output in the DirectColor format:
pnmtoxwd -directcolor path/to/input_file.pnm > path/to/output_file.xwd - Set the color depth of the output to b bits:
pnmtoxwd -pseudodepth b path/to/input_file.pnm > path/to/output_file.xwd
Synopsis
pnmtoxwd
[-pseudodepth n]
[pnmfile]
Description
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
pnmtoxwd reads a PNM image as input and produces an X11 window dump as output. You can display this output with xwud.
Normally, pnmtoxwd produces a StaticGray dump file for PBM and PGM files. For PPM, it writes a PseudoColor dump file if there are up to 256 colors in the input, and a DirectColor dump file otherwise.
In an X11 window dump file, various integers can be represented in either big endian (most significant byte first) or little endian code. Those generated by pnmtoxwd are always big endian.
Options
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see Common Options ), pnmtoxwd recognizes the following command line options:
- -directcolor
Output in DirectColor format.
- -pseudodepth 1-16
Set the depth of PseudoColor dump in bits. Values between 1 to 16 are accepted. Default is 8 (for a maximum of 256 colors.)
See Also
xwdtopnm(1), pnm(1), xwud
Author
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.
Document Source
This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source. The master documentation is at