PCDOVTOPPM(1)

💿 PCDOVTOPPM 💿

okay bestie, welcome to the Pcdovtoppm User Manual, straight outta the General Commands Manual section 💅 this one's a lil Netpbm cutie and she's here to make you a whole index image. let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pcdovtoppm — create index image for a photo CD 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pcdovtoppm [-maxwidth width] [-size size] [-across across] [-colors
colors] [-font font] [-black |-white] [pcdfile]

Minimum unique abbreviations of options are acceptable. (yes bestie, you can shorten them, the program will figure out what you meant 🫶)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so first things first: this program is part of Netpbm(1) 💜

What she does is generate an index image in PPM format for a photo CD, based on the photo CD overview file. Iconic behaviour, honestly.

ngl you could also get a similar result by running hpcdtoppm -Overview and then following it up with pnmindex -black on the generated PPM images. but like, why do two steps when one does it 💅

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

okay so in addition to the options that are common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see Common Options), pcdovtoppm recognizes these command line options:

⚠️ heads up babes: where options conflict, the rightmost one takes precedence. so read your command line left to right, the last one wins, no cap.

• -maxwidth width — maximum width of the result image (default: 1152)
• -size size — maximum size of each of the images (default: 192)
• -across across — maximum number of images across (default: 6)
• -colors colors — maximum number of colors, or noquant to mean no quantization
• -font font — font to be used for annotation (default: internal font)
• -black — black background color (default). This is the default. 🖤
• -white — white background color. 🤍

so like, -black is the default, just to be super clear about it. the program said it twice so you'd remember.

The Netpbm common options -version, -plain and -quiet were implemented starting with Netpbm 10.91 (June 2020). Before that, none of these options were valid. (throwback era, we don't go there 🙈)

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🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

here's the vibe, bestie:

pcdovtoppm -m 768 -s 96 -f smallfont.pbm overview.pcd > overview.ppm

pcdovtoppm /cdrom/photo_cd/overview.pcd | ppmtojpeg > overview.jpg

look at that second one just piping straight into ppmtojpeg and making a jpg like it's nothing. main character energy fr fr 🔥

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🌈 HISTORY 🌈

This program was formerly called pcdindex, which did not fit Netpbm naming conventions. so she got a glow-up and a new name. rebrand era 👑

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• hpcdtoppm(1)
• pnmindex(1)
• ppmtojpeg(1)
• ppm(1)

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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/pcdovtoppm.html

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and that's the whole page bestie 🫶 this was netpbm documentation, dated 26 March 2025, and you just read the Pcdovtoppm User Manual(1). slay, go make yourself a photo CD index image, you got this 💖✨🎀