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ppmtopict - convert a portable pixmap into a Macintosh PICT file |
ppmtopict [ppmfile] |
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. |
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. |
picttoppm(1), ppm(5), mcvert(1) |
Copyright (C) 1990 by Ken Yap <ken@cs.rocester.edu>. |