.TH pnmtorast 1 "12 January 1991"
.IX pnmtorast
.SH NAME
pnmtorast - convert a portable pixmap into a Sun rasterfile
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pnmtorast
.RB [ -standard | -rle ]
.RI [ pnmfile ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable pixmap as input.
Produces a Sun rasterfile as output.
.IX Sun
.IX rasterfile
.PP
Color values in Sun rasterfiles are eight bits wide, so
.I pnmtorast
will automatically scale colors to have a maxval of 255.
An extra
.I pnmdepth
step is not necessary.
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
The
.B -standard
flag forces the result to be in RT_STANDARD form; the
.B -rle
flag, RT_BYTE_ENCODED, which is smaller but, well, less standard.
The default is
.BR -rle .
.PP
All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
rasttopnm(1), pnm(5)
.SH AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.
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