PAMTOHTMLTBL(1)

💖 Pamtohtmltbl User Manual (1) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're about to turn a whole picture into an HTML table and honestly? it's giving unhinged but iconic. this one lives in the General Commands Manual section, and yes i'm putting the manual name up here because the header line is not the vibe, the content is the vibe. 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

pamtohtmltbl — convert pnm/pam visual image to an HTML table

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pamtohtmltbl [-transparent=color] [-verbose] [file]

okay so real talk about the option syntax, because this part is lowkey important:

• You only need the minimum unique abbreviation of an option, so like, you do not have to type the whole thing out. slay.
• You may use double hyphens instead of a single hyphen to denote options. both work, no cap.
• You may use white space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from its value. so -transparent=color and -transparent color are both valid. periodt.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This program is part of Netpbm(1). 🫶

pamtohtmltbl converts a visual image to an HTML table with one cell per pixel. The cell is empty, but its background color is that of the pixel. so like, imagine a mosaic made of tiny empty boxes that are each full of color. that's the whole bit. ✨

file is a PBM, PGM, PPM, or PAM file. If it's PAM, it must be a standard visual image of tuple type RGB, GRAYSCALE, or BLACKANDWHITE, or something equivalent with extra higher numbered channels — but pamtohtmltbl doesn't check the tuple type; it just assumes. 🙈 no vibe check, no notes, it simply trusts you and moves on.

Note that the more normal way to include a visual image in an HTML document is with a <IMG> tag. yes bestie, we know. we're doing it the other way. main character energy.

And now the messy part 😭 — not all web browsers render tables as pamtohtmltbl expects, and therefore show a grossly distorted image. Here's the receipts:

• Internet Explorer 7 on Windows — seen to work ✅
• Opera 9.02 on Windows — seen to work ✅
• Firefox 2.0.0.16 on the same Windows system — seen not to work 💀

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see Common Options), pamtohtmltbl recognizes the following command line options:

• -transparent=color — This option indicates that pixels of the specified color are to be transparent in the HTML table. The table cell for a pixel of this color will have no background color specified. Specify the color (color) as described for the argument of the pnm_parsecolor() library routine. ✨
• -verbose — This option causes pamtohtmltbl to display messages about the conversion process. it's telling you what it's doing the whole time. very chatty. love that for it. 🗣️

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

pnm(1) pam(1)

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🌈 HISTORY 🌈

pamtohtmltbl was new in Netpbm 10.15 (April 2003). a lil vintage moment, honestly. ⭐

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🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

Alexander B. Ivanov (SSH) wrote a program he called pnm2html. Bryan Henderson adapted it to use the Netpbm libraries and handle PAM images and follow Netpbm conventions, and named it pamtohtmltbl. 🫶 shoutout to both of them fr fr.

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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/pamtohtmltbl.html

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aight that's the whole thing bestie, go forth and make your tables 🦋

netpbm documentation · 13 October 2008 · this was Pamtohtmltbl User Manual(1) and you ate that. 💖✨🧚