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Pgmtosbig User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Pgmtosbig User Manual(1)

NAME

pgmtosbig - convert PGM image to SBIG format

SYNOPSIS

pgmtosbig

[pgmfile]

DESCRIPTION

This program is part of Netpbm(1).

pgmtosbig reads a PGM image as input and produces a Santa Barbara Instrument Group SBIG Type 3 image as output.

Note that this format is distinct from the SBIG ST-4 format.

  • The image is uncompressed
  • The image says it is from a "ST-6" camera
  • The image header has these lines:

  • camera type
  • height
  • width
  • saturation level

OPTIONS

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

SEE ALSO

sbigtopgm(1), pgm(1)

HISTORY

pgmtosbig was new in Netpbm 10.70, and was intended primarily as a test tool for sbigtopgm.

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/pgmtosbig.html
18 January 2015 netpbm documentation