ppmtopict - Man Page

• Convert a PPM image to a PICT file: ppmtopict path/to/file.ppm > path/to/file.pict

tldr.sh

ppmtopict

[ppmfile]

This program is part of Netpbm(1)​.

ppmtopict reads a PPM image as input and produces a Macintosh PICT file as output.

The generated file is only the data fork of a picture.  You will need a program such as mcvert to generate a Macbinary or a BinHex file that contains the necessary information to identify the file as a PICT file to MacOS.

Even though PICT can have 2 and 4 bits per pixel, ppmtopict always generates an 8 bits per pixel file.

There are no command line options defined specifically for ppmtopict, but it recognizes the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (See Common Options ​.)

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.

picttoppm(1)​, ppm(1)​,  mcvert

Copyright (C) 1990 by Ken Yap <ken@cs.rocester.edu>.

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

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