PAMTOQOI(1)

💖 PAMTOQOI 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this one's short but it slaps. it's the pamtoqoi user manual, from the General Commands Manual section, and it is exactly the little converter you've been looking for. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

pamtoqoi — convert a Netpbm image into QOI format, aka the Quite OK Image format. yes that's the actual name, it's giving humble and confident at the same time 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pamtoqoi [pnmfile]

and a lil' quality-of-life note for you, bestie: all options can be abbreviated down to their shortest unique prefix. you can use two hyphens instead of one if that's your vibe. and you can separate an option name from its value with white space instead of an equals sign, no cap. 🫶

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

This program is part of Netpbm(1). 🫶

pamtoqoi reads a Netpbm image from standard input and converts it to a QOI image that it writes to standard output. that's the whole thing. in, out, iconic, periodt. ✨

For the QOI specification and all the details, see the QOI web site.

Use qoitopam(1) to go the other direction — converting a QOI image to Netpbm format. it's the round trip, the full circle moment 🔄

Input comes from Standard Input if you don't specify the input file pnmfile. so if you're feeling lazy, just pipe it in, she'll handle it 💖

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

The only options are those common to all programs based on libnetpbm — most notably -quiet, see Common Options. that's it. that's the list. no secret menu, no hidden flags, we keep it minimal. 🧚

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• qoitopam(1)
• pam(1)

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

pamtoqoi was new in Netpbm 10.99 (June 2022). a whole baby, lowkey 🍓

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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/pamtoqoi.html

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and that's the whole page! this came from the netpbm documentation, dated 21 May 2022, and yes it's the Pamtoqoi User Manual(1) — go forth and convert, bestie, you're gonna eat 💅✨🌈