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.TH "Pnmtorast User Manual" 1 "12 January 1991" "netpbm documentation"

.SH NAME
pnmtorast - convert a PPM into a Sun rasterfile

.UN synopsis
.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBpnmtorast\fP
[\fB-standard\fP|\fB-rle\fP]
[\fIpnmfile\fP]

.UN description
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
This program is part of
.BR "Netpbm" (1)\c
\&.
.PP
\fBpnmtorast\fPreads a PPM image as input and produces a Sun
rasterfile as output.
.PP
Color values in Sun rasterfiles are eight bits wide, so
\fBpnmtorast\fP will automatically scale colors to have a maxval of
255.  An extra \fBpamdepth\fP step is not necessary.

.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
\&), \fBpnmtorast\fP recognizes the following
command line options:
.PP
All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.


.TP
\fB-standard\fP
.sp
Forces the result to be in RT_STANDARD form.

.TP
\fB-rle\fP
.sp
Forces the result to be in RT_BYTE_ENCODED, which is smaller but,
well, less standard.
.sp
The default is \fB-rle\fP.



.UN seealso
.SH SEE ALSO
.PP
.BR "rasttopnm" (1)\c
\&,
.BR "pnm" (1)\c
\&

.UN author
.SH AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.
.SH DOCUMENT SOURCE
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.IP
.B http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pnmtorast.html
.PP