picttoppm(1)

NAME
picttoppm - convert a Macintosh PICT file into a portable pixmap

SYNOPSIS
picttoppm [-verbose] [pictfile]

DESCRIPTION
Reads a PICT file (version 1 or 2) and outputs a portable pixmap. Useful as the first step in converting a scanned image to something that can be displayed on Unix.

OPTIONS

-v  Turns on verbose mode which prints a a whole bunch of information that only picttoppm hackers really care about.

BUGS
The PICT file format is a general drawing format. picttoppm only supports a small subset of its operations but is still very useful for files produced by scanning software. In particular, text added to a scanned image will be silently ignored.

SEE ALSO
Inside Macintosh volume 5, ppmtopict(1), ppm(5)

AUTHOR
Copyright 1989 George Phillips