PFMTOPAM(1)

💖 NAME 💖

pfmtopam — converts a PFM (Portable Float Map) image into Netpbm format, bestie 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pfmtopam [-maxval=n] [-verbose] [imagefile]

okay so a few lil quality-of-life things about how you're allowed to type these:

• any option can be shortened to its shortest unique prefix ✨
• you can use two hyphens instead of one, no biggie
• and you can separate an option name from its value with white space instead of an equals sign, whichever vibe you're on that day 💅

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

This one is part of Netpbm(1), obvs 💖

pfmtopam reads a PFM (Portable Float Map) image and converts it to PAM. That's the whole job. It ate and left no crumbs 🔥

Wanna know what PFM even is? Go peek at pamtopfm(1) — it has the whole description, iykyk.

And if you're out here craving one of the older, more portable Netpbm formats, just run the output through pamtopnm. easy peasy 🍓

pamtopfm creates a PAM with tuple type "RGB" or "GRAYSCALE", depending on whether or not the PFM is in the color subformat 👑

Use pamtopfm(1) to convert a PFM image to Netpbm format. yes, both directions exist. we love a versatile friend 🫶

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

On top of the options that are common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see Common Options), pfmtopam recognizes these command line options:

• -maxval=n — sets the maxval for the PAM. Default is 255. lowkey a classic 💜
• -verbose — makes pfmtopam show you messages describing the PFM input file. like a little narrator for your file, no cap 🌈

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

pamtopfm(1), pam(1),

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🧚 HISTORY 🧚

pfmtopam was added to Netpbm in Release 10.22 (April 2004). a legend since day one 💀✨

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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/pfmtopam.html

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okay bestie that's the whole page, we're done here 💅 this was netpbm documentation, 10 April 2004 — the Pfmtopam User Manual, section 1 of the General Commands Manual, slay 🌸✨💖