PAMRGBATOPNG(1)

💖 NAME 💖

pamrgbatopng — bestie, she's been replaced by pamtopng 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pamrgbatopng [pamfile]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so first thing, this program is part of Netpbm(1) 💖 keep that in your notes.

pamrgbatopng got obsoleted by pamtopng(1), which showed up with Netpbm 10.70 (June 2015). And like, pamtopng is backward compatible with pamrgbatopng, plus it adds a plethora of additional functions. Plethora!! She ate and left no crumbs 👑

Starting in Release 10.70, pamrgbatopng is literally just an alias for pamtopng. That's it. That's the whole job now. iconic retirement behavior honestly 🌈

So storytime: pamrgbatopng was added to Netpbm in 2005, and everyone always kind of knew she was gonna get retired eventually, because compared to the more popular and much older pnmtopng, she had almost no features. Like, "in fact, no command line options" levels of no features. Zero flags. Nothing. a minimal queen 😭

BUT — and this is the part we don't forget — the one feature she had that pnmtopng was missing was the ability to recognize transparency in a PAM image. That was her whole thing. Her moment. Her main character era. ✨

And good news, pamtopng has that too — plus most of the features of pnmtopng. So you're not losing anything, bestie, you're just leveling up 🫶

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🎀 DOCUMENT SOURCE 🎀

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

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

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💀 no cap on that retirement arc — if you're writing new stuff, go hang out with pamtopng instead.

netpbm documentation · 28 June 2015 · stay hydrated, go read pamtopng(1), mwah 💖🌸🦋