NAME

       pcxtoppm - convert a PCX file into a PPM image

SYNOPSIS

       pcxtoppm [-stdpalette] [-verbose] [pcxfile]

DESCRIPTION

       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       pcxtoppm reads a PCX file as input and produces a PPM image as output.

       pcxtoppm recognizes the following PCX types:

       •      Colormapped files with 2-16 colors.

              "Packed  pixel"  format  (1,  2  or  4  bits/pixel,  1 plane) or bitplane format (1
              bit/pixel, 1-4 planes).  The program uses a  predefined  standard  palette  if  the
              image  does  not  provide one.  "Does not provide one" means the palette in the PCX
              header is completely black.

       •      Colormapped files with 256 colors.

              8 bits/pixel, 1 plane, colormap at the end of the file.

       •      24bit truecolor files.

              24bit RGB: 8 bits/pixel, 3 planes.

       •      32bit truecolor files.

              24bit RGB + 8bit intensity: 8 bits/pixel, 4 planes.

OPTIONS

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

       -stdpalette
              This option causes pcxtoppm to use its predefined standard palette even if the  PCX
              image  provides  its  own.   This  is  meaningful only for an image in the 16 color
              paletted PCX format.

              The image may appear to provide its own palette but in fact be created by a program
              too primitive to understand palettes that created a random palette by accident.

       -verbose
              Report details of the PCX header.

SEE ALSO

       ppmtopcx(1), ppm(1)

AUTHORS

       Copyright 1990 by Michael Davidson.

       Modified 1994 by Ingo Wilken (Ingo.Wilken@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)

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/pcxtoppm.html