pnmtosgi - convert a PNM image to a SGI image file
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Description
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
pnmtosgi reads a PNM image as input and produces an SGI image file as output. The SGI image will be
2-dimensional (1 channel) for PBM and PGM input, and 3-dimensional (3 channels) for PPM.
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/pnmtosgi.html
netpbm documentation 29 January 1994 PnmtosgiUserManual(1)
Name
pnmtosgi - convert a PNM image to a SGI image file
Options
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see Common
Options ), pnmtosgi recognizes the following command line options:
-verbatim
Write an uncompressed file.
-rle (default)
Write a compressed (run length encoded) file.
-imagenamename
Write the string "name" into the imagename field of the header. The name string is limited to 79
characters. If no name is given, pnmtosgi writes "no name" into this field.
References
SGI Image File Format documentation (draft v0.95) by Paul Haeberli (paul@sgi.com). Available via ftp at
sgi.com:graphics/SGIIMAGESPEC.
See Also
pnm(1), sgitopnm(1)
Synopsis
pnmtosgi
[-verbatim|-rle]
[-imagenameName]
[pnmfile]
