tgatoppm - Man Page

convert TrueVision Targa file to a PPM image

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

tgatoppm [--alphaout={alpha-filename,-}] [--headerdump] tga-filename

Description

This program is part of Netpbm(1).

tgatoppm reads a TrueVision Targa file as input and produces a PPM image as output.

Options

In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see Common Options ), tgatoppm recognizes the following command line options:

All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.

--alphaout=alpha-filename

tgatoppm creates a PGM image containing the transparency channel values in the input image.  If the input image doesn't contain a transparency channel, the alpha-filename file contains all zero (transparent) transparency values.  If you don't specify --alphaout, tgatoppm does not generate an alpha file, and if the input image has a transparency channel, tgatoppm simply discards it.

If you specify - as the filename, tgatoppm writes the transparency output to Standard Output and discards the image.

See pamcomp(1) for one way to use the transparency output file.

--headerdump

Causes tgatoppm to dump information from the TGA header to Standard Error.

See Also

ppmtotga(1), pamcomp(1), ppm(1)

Author

Partially based on tga2rast, version 1.0, by Ian J. MacPhedran.

Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.

Document Source

This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.  The master documentation is at

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/tgatoppm.html

Referenced By

pamtotga(1).

02 April 2000 netpbm documentation