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<H1>pcxtoppm</H1>
Updated: 19 April 2004
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<H2>NAME</H2>
pcxtoppm - convert a PCX file into a PPM image
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>pcxtoppm</B>
[<B>-stdpalette</B>]
[<B>-verbose</B>]
[<I>pcxfile</I>]
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
<p>This program is part of <a href="index.html">Netpbm</a>.
<p><b>pcxtoppm</b> reads a PCX file as input and produces a PPM image
as output.
<p><b>pcxtoppm</b> recognizes the following PCX types:
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<LI>Colormapped files with 2-16 colors.
<P>"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.
<LI>Colormapped files with 256 colors.
<P>8 bits/pixel, 1 plane, colormap at the end of the file.
<LI>24bit truecolor files.
<P>24bit RGB: 8 bits/pixel, 3 planes.
<LI>32bit truecolor files.
<P>24bit RGB + 8bit intensity: 8 bits/pixel, 4 planes.
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<H2>OPTIONS</H2>
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<DT><B>-stdpalette</B>
<DD>This option causes <b>pcxtoppm</b> 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.
<p>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.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<B><A HREF="ppmtopcx.html">ppmtopcx</A></B>,
<B><A HREF="ppm.html">ppm</A></B>
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<H2>AUTHORS</H2>
<p>Copyright 1990 by Michael Davidson.
<p>Modified 1994 by Ingo Wilken (<A
HREF="mailto:Ingo.Wilken@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de">Ingo.Wilken@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de</A>)
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<LI><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A>
<LI><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A>
<LI><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A>
<LI><A HREF="#lbAE">OPTIONS</A>
<LI><A HREF="#lbAF">SEE ALSO</A>
<LI><A HREF="#lbAG">AUTHORS</A>
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