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<H1>ppmtoascii</H1>
Updated: 09 April 2010
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<H2>NAME</H2>
ppmtoascii - convert a PPM image to ASCII graphics with ANSI terminal color
<H2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>ppmtoascii</B>
[<B>-1x2</B>|<B>-2x4</B>]
[<I>ppmfile</I>]
<H2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</H2>
<p>This program is part of <a href="index.html">Netpbm</a>.
<p><b>ppmtoascii</b> reads a PPM image as input and produces a somewhat
crude ASCII graphic image as output, with ANSI terminal control characters
so it has crude color when sent to a color text terminal.
<P>There is no converter for the other direction.
<p><b>ppmtoterm</b> does a similar thing, but displays each character of the
image as a single pixel (using the same dense character for every pixel),
whereas <b>ppmtoascii</b> combines 2 or 8 pixels into one character, where
the character roughly represents those particular pixels.
<p>Note that ANSI provides for only eight colors (including black and white).
<p>Note that an ANSI terminal can't display a single character in multiple
colors, so where a character represents 8 pixels of differing colors, the
color of the character is one that is the average of the colors of those
pixels.
<p><b>pbmtoascii</b> does the same thing for PBM images, with no terminal
control characters (because none are needed for a strictly black and white
image).
<H2 id="options">OPTIONS</H2>
<p>The <B>-1x2</B> and <B>-2x4</B> options give you two alternate ways for the
pixels to get mapped to characters. With <B>1x2</B>, the default, each
character represents a group of 1 pixel across by 2 pixels down. With
<B>-2x4</B>, each character represents 2 pixels across by 4 pixels down.
<H2 id="seealso">SEE ALSO</H2>
<A HREF="pbmtoascii.html">pbmtoascii</A>
<a href="ppmtoterm.html">ppmtoterm</a>
<A HREF="ppm.html">ppm</A>
<h2 id="history">HISTORY</h2>
<p><b>ppmtoascii</b> was new in Netpbm 10.51 (June 2010). Frank Ch. Eigler
derived it from <b>pbmtoascii</b>.
<H2 id="author">AUTHOR</H2>
Copyright (C) 2010 by Frank Ch. Eigler.
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<LI><A HREF="#synopsis">SYNOPSIS</A>
<LI><A HREF="#description">DESCRIPTION</A>
<LI><A HREF="#options">OPTIONS</A>
<LI><A HREF="#seealso">SEE ALSO</A>
<LI><A HREF="#history">HISTORY</A>
<LI><A HREF="#author">AUTHOR</A>
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