PDBIMGTOPAM(1)

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version 11.13.03 · 3 versions
, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 pdbimgtopam — the Palm Pilot pic → PAM glow-up 💖

okay so real talk, this one's from the Pdbimgtopam User Manual, section 1 of the General Commands Manual. she's niche, she's specific, she's iconic 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

pdbimgtopam — convert a Palm Pilot Image Viewer PDB Image to a PAM image

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pdbimgtopam

[-notefile=filename] [-verbose]

[pdbimgfile]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

bestie, this program is part of Netpbm(1). 🫶

pdbimgtopam reads a Palm Pilot Image Viewer image (plus the Image record inside a PDB file) as its input — and that input comes from Standard Input or from palmfile — and then it produces a PAM image as output. that's the whole vibe, that's the job. ✨

if the Pilot image is monochrome, the PAM output has maxval 1. otherwise? it's got maxval 255. 💅

ngl here's the plot twist: Pilot images are always monochrome. so like 😭 either way, the PAM image has tuple type GRAYSCALE. no cap.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

on top of the options common to every program based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see Common Options), pdbimgtopam also recognizes these command line options, and yes she ate 👑

  • -verbose — display various interesting information about the input file and process. it's giving narrator energy, fr fr 💬
  • -notefile=filename — write the image note (if any) to the specified file. 📝

if you don't specify this one, pdbimgtopam just ignores any image note. she said "not my problem" 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

💜 HISTORY 💜

pdbimgtopam was new in Netpbm 10.52 (September 2010). ⭐

she was modelled after Eric A. Howe's imgvtopbm package, which dates allll the way back to September 1997. like, that's vintage-vintage. the blueprint. 👑

📜 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/pdbimgtopam.html

and that's the whole page bestie, no crumbs left 🍓 this was netpbm documentation, dated 25 September 2010, and it's officially the Pdbimgtopam User Manual(1) — mwah, slay, periodt 💅💖🦋

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