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<H1>pdbimgtopam</H1>
Updated: 25 September 2010
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<H2>NAME</H2>
pdbimgtopam - convert a Palm Pilot Image Viewer PDB Image to a PAM image
<H2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>pdbimgtopam</B>
[<b>-notefile=</b><i>filename</i>]
[<b>-verbose</b>]
[<I>pdbimgfile</I>]
<H2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</H2>
<p>This program is part of <a href="index.html">Netpbm</a>.
<p><b>pdbimgtopam</b> reads a Palm Pilot Image Viewer image (and Image
record in a PDB file) as input, from Standard Input or
<I>palmfile</I>, and produces a PAM image as output.
<p>If the Pilot image is monochrome, the PAM output has maxval 1.
Otherwise, it has maxval 255. Note that Pilot images are always
monochrome. The PAM image has tuple type GRAYSCALE.
<H2 id="options">OPTIONS</H2>
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<DT><B>-verbose</B>
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Display various interesting information about the input file and process.
<DT><B>-notefile=</B><i>filename</i>
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Write the image note (if any) to the specified file.
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If you don't specify this, <b>pdbimgtopam</b> ignores any image note.
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<H2 id="seealso">SEE ALSO</H2>
<B><A HREF="pamtopdbimg.html">pamtopdbimg</A></B>,
<B><A HREF="pnmtopalm.html">pnmtopalm</A></B>,
<A HREF="pam.html">pam</A>,
<h2 id="history">HISTORY</h2>
<p><b>pdbimgtopam</b> was new in Netpbm 10.52 (September 2010).
It was modelled after Eric A. Howe's <b>imgvtopbm</b> package, which
dates back to September 1997.
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<LI><A HREF="#synopsis">SYNOPSIS</A>
<LI><A HREF="#description">DESCRIPTION</A>
<LI><A HREF="#options">OPTIONS</A>
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