NAME

       ppmtopict - convert a PPM image to a Macintosh PICT file

SYNOPSIS

       ppmtopict

       [ppmfile]

DESCRIPTION

       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       ppmtopict reads a PPM image as input and 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 can have 2 and 4 bits per pixel, ppmtopict always generates an 8 bits per
       pixel file.

OPTIONS

       There are no command line options defined specifically for ppmtopict,  but  it  recognizes
       the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (See
        Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ .)

LIMITATIONS

       The  picture size field is correct only 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(1), mcvert

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 1990 by Ken Yap <ken@cs.rocester.edu>.

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/ppmtopict.html