NAME¶
ppmtopict - convert a portable pixmap into a Macintosh PICT file
SYNOPSIS¶
ppmtopict [
ppmfile]
DESCRIPTION¶
Reads a portable pixmap as input. Produces a Macintosh PICT file as output.
The generated file is only the data fork of a picture. You will need a program
such as
mcvert to generate a Macbinary or a BinHex file that contains
the necessary information to identify the file as a PICT file to MacOS.
Even though PICT supports 2 and 4 bits per pixel,
ppmtopict always
generates an 8 bits per pixel file.
BUGS¶
The picture size field is only correct if the output is to a file since writing
into this field requires seeking backwards on a file. However the PICT
documentation seems to suggest that this field is not critical anyway since it
is only the lower 16 bits of the picture size.
SEE ALSO¶
picttoppm(1),
ppm(5), mcvert(1)
AUTHOR¶
Copyright (C) 1990 by Ken Yap <ken@cs.rocester.edu>.