MACPTOPBM(1)

💖 MACPTOPBM 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Macptopbm User Manual (that's section 1 of the General Commands Manual, iykyk) — this is the whole vibe, no gatekeeping, let's go 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

macptopbm — convert a MacPaint file into a PBM image. literally that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

macptopbm [-extraskip N] [macpfile]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so first things first: this program is part of Netpbm(1), so it's got the whole family behind it 🫶

macptopbm reads a MacPaint file as input and produces a PBM image as output. read MacPaint, write PBM, eat, slay, repeat. periodt ✨

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

so besides the options that are common to all programs based on libnetpbm (the most iconic one being -quiet, peep the Common Options section for that), macptopbm recognizes the following command line option:

also important, bestie: you can abbreviate any option to its shortest unique prefix. iconic behavior fr fr 👑

• -extraskip — okay so this one exists to get around a problem with some methods of transferring files from the Mac world to the Unix world 😭 Most of those methods leave the Mac files alone, but a few of them add the "finderinfo" data onto the front of the Unix file. which means… an extra 128 bytes to skip over when reading the file. The symptom to watch for is that the resulting PBM file looks shifted to one side. If you get that, try -extraskip 128, and if that still doesn't look right, try another value. trial and error but make it cute 💀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• picttoppm(1)
• pbmtomacp(1)
• pbm(1)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer.

The MacPaint-reading code is copyright (c) 1987 by Patrick J. Naughton (naughton@wind.sun.com).

legends, honestly, we owe them everything 🙈💖

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📜 DOCUMENT SOURCE 📜

This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool makeman from HTML source. The master documentation is at

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/macptopbm.html

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and that's the whole page, bestie! go convert some MacPaint files, you're gonna eat 🍓✨

Netpbm documentation · 29 March 1989 · Macptopbm User Manual(1) — mwah, love u, bye 🧚💜