PGMTOST4(1)

✨ PGMTOST4 ✨

okay bestie so this is the pgmtost4 manual page from the Netpbm crew, and it's literally the glow-up machine that turns your PGM pics into SBIG ST-4 camera CCD images 💖 no cap.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

pgmtost4 — convert PGM image to SBIG ST-4 format. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pgmtost4

[pgmfile]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

bestie this program is part of Netpbm(1) — you know, the whole iconic family 👑

pgmtost4 reads a PGM image as input and produces a Santa Barbara Instrument Group SBIG ST-4 camera CCD image as output. serving looks, serving format conversion, periodt ✨

⚠️ okay important side note because the way this trips people up: this format is distinct from the SBIG format used with mos SBIG cameras. for that one, go see pgmtosbig. two different formats, two different girlies, don't mix them up 😭

and here's what's going on inside the output, lowkey:

• the image is uncompressed 🍓
• the image says it is from a "ST-6" camera (yes she's cosplaying, let her live)
• the image header has these lines:
  • camera type
  • height
  • width
  • saturation level

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay so real talk: there are no command line options defined specifically for pgmtost4, like none, zero, she doesn't need them, she's built different 🫶

but! she does recognize the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm — see Common Options for the whole rundown 🧚

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• st4topgm(1)
• pgm(1)

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

pgmtosbig was new in Netpbm 10.70, and was intended primarily as a test tool for sbigtopgm. (yes we know, it says pgmtosbig in the history of the pgmtost4 page — that's what the original says, iykyk, not me editing the lore 🙈)

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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/pgmtost4.html

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and that's the whole page bestie 💖 netpbm documentation, dated 20 January 2015 — mwah, slay, go convert some images 💅✨🎀