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.TH "Pamtoavs User Manual" 1 "07 February 2010" "netpbm documentation"

.SH NAME
.PP
pamtoavs - convert a Netpbm image to an AVS X image

.UN synopsis
.SH SYNOPSIS
.PP
\fBpamtoavs\fP
[\fInetpbmfile\fP]

.UN description
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
This program is part of
.BR "Netpbm" (1)\c
\&.
.PP
\fBpamtoavs\fP reads a Netpbm image as input and produces a Stardent
AVS
X image as output. AVS X images are one of the few image formats 
.UR http://www.gnuplot.info/
Gnuplot
.UE
\&\ v4.2 and later can use.
.PP
\fInetpbmfile\fP is the input file, which defaults to Standard Input.
Output is always on Standard Output.
.PP
Try the following:

.nf
    gnuplot> plot 'myimage.avs' binary filetype=avs with rgbimage

.fi
.PP
See the
.BR "Gnuplot
manual" (1)\c
\& for more information.


.UN options
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
There are no command line options defined specifically
for \fBpamtoavs\fP, but it recognizes the options common to all
programs based on libnetpbm (See 
.UR index.html#commonoptions
 Common Options
.UE
\&.)

.UN author
.SH AUTHOR
.PP
Copyright\ \(co 2010 Scott Pakin,
\fIscott+pbm@pakin.org\fP

.UN seealso
.SH SEE ALSO
.PP
.BR "avstopam" (1)\c
\&,
.UR http://www.gnuplot.info/
gnuplot
.UE
\&,
.BR "pam" (1)\c
\&
.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/pamtoavs.html
.PP