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<H1>ppmtopict</H1>
Updated: 15 April 1990
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<H2>NAME</H2>
ppmtopict - convert a PPM image to a Macintosh PICT file
<H2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>ppmtopict</B>
[<I>ppmfile</I>]
<H2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</H2>
<p>This program is part of <a href="index.html">Netpbm</a>.
<p><b>ppmtopict</b> reads a PPM image as input and produces a
Macintosh PICT file as output.
<P>The generated file is only the data fork of a picture. You will
need a program such as <I>mcvert</I> to generate a Macbinary or a
BinHex file that contains the necessary information to identify the
file as a PICT file to MacOS.
<P>Even though PICT can have 2 and 4 bits per pixel, <b>ppmtopict</b>
always generates an 8 bits per pixel file.
<H2 id="limitations">LIMITATIONS</H2>
<p>The picture size field is correct only if the output is to a file
since writing into this field requires seeking backwards on a file.
However the PICT documentation seems to suggest that this field is not
critical anyway since it is only the lower 16 bits of the picture
size.
<H2 id="seealso">SEE ALSO</H2>
<A HREF="picttoppm.html">picttoppm</A>,
<A HREF="ppm.html">ppm</A>,
<b>mcvert</b>
<H2 id="author">AUTHOR</H2>
Copyright (C) 1990 by Ken Yap <<A
HREF="mailto:ken@cs.rocester.edu">ken@cs.rocester.edu</A>>.
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