ppmtopict

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 gen-
       erates 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@cs.rocester.edu>.

                                 15 April 1990                    ppmtopict(1)