NAME

       pbmtomda - convert a PBM image to a Microdesign .mda

SYNOPSIS

       pbmtomda

       [-dscale] [-invert] [--]

       [pbmfile]

       Minimum  unique  abbreviation of option is acceptable.  You may use double hyphens instead
       of single hyphen to denote options.  You may use white space in place of the  equals  sign
       to separate an option name from its value.

DESCRIPTION

       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       pbmtomda  reads  a  PBM  image  as  input and produces a MicroDesign 2 area file (.MDA) as
       output.

       If you do not specify pbmfile, pbmtomda uses Standard Input.

OPTIONS

       In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet,
       see
        Common  Options  ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩  ), pbmtomda recognizes the following command
       line options:

       -d     Halve the height of the output file, to compensate for the  aspect  ratio  used  in
              MicroDesign files.

       -i     Invert the colors used.

       --     End of options (use this if the filename starts with "-")

LIMITATIONS

       There's  no  way  to produce files in MicroDesign 3 format. MD3 itself and mdatopbm(1) can
       read files in either format.

SEE ALSO

       mdatopbm(1), pbm(1)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 1999 John Elliott <jce@seasip.demon.co.uk>.

DOCUMENT SOURCE

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

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