NAME

       palmtopnm - convert a Palm pixmap into a portable anymap

SYNOPSIS

       palmtopnm [-verbose] [-rendition N] [-showhist]
       [-forceplain] [pnmfile]
       palmtopnm -transparent [-verbose] [pnmfile]

DESCRIPTION

       Reads  a  Palm  pixmap  as input, from stdin or pnmfile.  Produces either a portable pixmap as output, or
       writes the value of the transparent color in the Palm pixmap to stdout.

OPTIONS

       -verbose
              Display various interesting information about the input file and process.

       -transparent
              If the Palm pixmap has a transparent color set, the RGB value for that color will  be  written  to
              stdout as in the form #RRGGBB, where RR, GG, and BB are two-digit hexadecimal numbers indicating a
              value between 0 and 255.  If no transparent color is set in the bitmap, nothing  will  be  output.
              No additional output will be generated; no anymap will be output.

       -rendition N
              Palm  pixmaps  may contain several different renditions of the same pixmap, with different depths.
              By default, palmtopnm operates on the first rendition (rendition number 1) in  the  pixmap.   This
              switch allows you to operate on a different rendition.  The value must be between 1 and the number
              of renditions in the pixmap, inclusive.

       -showhist
              Writes a histogram of colors in the input file to stderr.

       -forceplain
              Force the output anymap to be in ASCII 'plain' netpbm format.

SEE ALSO

       pnmtopalm(1), pnm(5)

BUGS

       An additional compression format, "packbits," has been added with PalmOS 4.0.   This  package  should  be
       updated to handle it.

       You currently cannot generate an alpha mask if the Palm pixmap has a transparent color.  However, you can
       still do this with ppmcolormask with a Netpbm pipe similar to:

       palmtopnm pixmap.palm | ppmcolormask `palmtopnm -transparent pixmap.palm`

AUTHORS

       This program was originally written as Tbmptopnm.c, by Ian Goldberg.  It was  heavily  modified  by  Bill
       Janssen to add color, compression, and transparency function.
       Copyright 1995-2001 by Ian Goldberg and Bill Janssen.

                                                15 December 2000                                    palmtopnm(1)