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pnmalias

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Updated: 15 March 2004
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NAME

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pnmalias - antialias a PNM image
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SYNOPSIS

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pnmalias
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[-bgcolor color]
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[-fgcolor color]
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[-bonly]
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[-fonly]
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[-balias]
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[-falias]
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[-weight w]
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[pnmfile]
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DESCRIPTION

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This program is part of Netpbm.

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pnmalias reads a PNM image as input, and applies

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anti-aliasing to background and foreground pixels.  If the input file
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is a PBM, pnmalias promotes the output anti-aliased image to a
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PGM, and prints a message informing the user of the change in format.
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OPTIONS

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-bgcolor colorb sets the background color the

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colorb.
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-fgcolor colorf sets the foreground color to

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colorf.
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Pixels with these values will be anti-aliased. By default,

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pnmalias takes the background color to be black, and foreground
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color to be white.
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Specify the color (color) as described for the

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href="libppm.html#colorname">argument of the ppm_parsecolor()
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library routine.
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Note that even when dealing with PGMs, background and foreground

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colors need to be specified in the fashion described above.  In this
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case, pnmalias takes the background and foreground pixel values
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to be the value of the red component for the specified color.
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-bonly says to apply anti-aliasing only to the background pixels.

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-fonly says to apply anti-aliasing only to the foreground pixels.

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-balias says to apply anti-aliasing to all pixels surrounding

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background pixels.
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-falias says to apply anti-aliasing to all pixels surrounding

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foreground pixels.
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If you specify neither -balias nor -falias,

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pnmalias applies anti-aliasing only among neighboring
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background and foreground pixels.
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-weight w says to use w as the central weight

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for the aliasing filter.  w must be a real number in the range
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0 < w < 1.  The lower the value of w is, the
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"blurrier" the output image is.  The default is w = 1/3.
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SEE ALSO

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pbmtext,
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pnmsmooth,
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pnm
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AUTHOR

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Copyright (C) 1992 by Alberto Accomazzi, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
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  • SYNOPSIS
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  • DESCRIPTION
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  • OPTIONS
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  • SEE ALSO
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  • AUTHOR
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