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 generates 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)