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.TH "Mdatopbm User Manual" 1 "03 December 2003" "netpbm documentation"

.SH NAME

mdatopbm - convert a Microdesign .mda or .mdp file into a PBM image

.UN synopsis
.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBmdatopbm\fP
[\fB-d\fP]
[\fB-i\fP]
[\fB--\fP]
[\fImdafile\fP]

.UN description
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
This program is part of
.BR "Netpbm" (1)\c
\&.
.PP
\fBmdatopbm\fP reads a MicroDesign file as input and Produces a
PBM image as output.
.PP
If you don't specify \fImdafile\fP, \fBmdatopbm\fP takes its input
from Standard Input.

.UN options
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(most notably \fB-quiet\fP, see 
.UR index.html#commonoptions
 Common Options
.UE
\&), \fBmdatopbm\fP recognizes the following
command line options:



.TP
\fB-d\fP
Double the height of the output file, to compensate for the aspect
ratio used in MicroDesign files.

.TP
\fB-i\fP
Invert the colors used.

.TP
\fB--\fP
End of options (use this if the filename starts with "-")


.PP
The program also accepts option \fB-a\fP for historical reasons, for
  the same meaning as the Netpbm common option \fB-plain\fP.
  

.UN seealso
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR "pbmtomda" (1)\c
\&,
.BR "pbm" (1)\c
\&

.UN author
.SH AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1999 John Elliott <\fIjce@seasip.demon.co.uk\fP>.
.SH DOCUMENT SOURCE
This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
source.  The master documentation is at
.IP
.B http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/mdatopbm.html
.PP