NAME

       ppmqvga - 8 plane quantization

SYNOPSIS

       ppmqvga [ options ] [ input file ]

DESCRIPTION

       ppmqvga  quantizes  PPM files to 8 planes, with optional Floyd-Steinberg dithering.  Input
       is a PPM file from the file named, or standard input of no file is provided.

   Options
       -d dither. Apply Floyd-Steinberg dithering to the data

       -q quiet. Produces no progress reporting, and no terminal output unless and error occurs.

       -v verbose. Produces additional output describing the number of  colors  found,  and  some
       information  on the resulting mapping. May be repeated to generate loads of internal table
       output, but generally only useful once.

EXAMPLES

       ppmqvga -d my_image.ppm | ppmtogif >my_image.gif

       tgatoppm zombie.tga | ppmqvga | ppmtotif > zombie.tif

SEE ALSO

       ppmquant

DIAGNOSTICS

       Error messages if problems, various levels of optional progress reporting.

LIMITATIONS

       none known.

AUTHOR

       Original by Lyle Rains (lrains@netcom.com) as ppmq256 and ppmq256fs combined,  documented,
       and enhanced by Bill Davidsen (davidsen@crd.ge.com)

Copyright

       Copyright  1991,1992 by Bill Davidsen, all rights reserved.  The program and documentation
       may be freely distributed by anyone in source or binary format. Please  clearly  note  any
       changes.

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