NAME

       macptopbm - convert a MacPaint file into a PBM image

SYNOPSIS

       macptopbm [-extraskip N] [macpfile]

DESCRIPTION

       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       macptopbmreads a MacPaint file as input and produces a PBM image as output.

OPTIONS

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

       You can abbreviate any option to its shortest unique prefix.

       -extraskip
              This option is to get around a problem with some methods of transferring files from
              the Mac world to the Unix world.  Most of these methods leave the Mac files  alone,
              but  a few of them add the "finderinfo" data onto the front of the Unix file.  This
              means an extra 128 bytes to skip over when reading the file.  The symptom to  watch
              for is that the resulting PBM file looks shifted to one side.  If you get this, try
              -extraskip 128, and if that still doesn't look right try another value.

SEE ALSO

       picttoppm(1), pbmtomacp(1), pbm(1)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer.

       The   MacPaint-reading   code   is   copyright   (c)   1987   by   Patrick   J.   Naughton
       (naughton@wind.sun.com).

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/macptopbm.html