PNMTORAST(1)

✨ PNMTORAST(1) ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because we're about to make a Sun rasterfile and honestly? it's giving glow-up energy 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pnmtorast — convert a PPM into a Sun rasterfile 🦋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pnmtorast [-standard|-rle] [pnmfile]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so first things first: this program is part of Netpbm(1). family reunion vibes 👑

pnmtorast reads a PPM image as input and produces a Sun rasterfile as output. that's the whole gig. she's a converter, she's an icon, she's booked and busy ✨

now here's the important tea 🫖 — color values in Sun rasterfiles are eight bits wide, so pnmtorast will automatically scale colors to have a maxval of 255. no cap, she does it for you. that means an extra pamdepth step is not necessary — don't do extra work for no reason, that's not the vibe 🌈

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

in addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see Common Options), pnmtorast recognizes the following command line options:

lowkey handy: all options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix 👑

• -standard — forces the result to be in RT_STANDARD form. she said "we're doing it the classic way" 💅
• -rle — forces the result to be in RT_BYTE_ENCODED, which is smaller but, well, less standard 🙈

the default is -rle. periodt.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• rasttopnm(1) — the reverse girlypop, go say hi 💖
• pnm(1)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer. legend behavior fr fr 🫶

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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/pnmtorast.html

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💅✨ this was netpbm documentation, dated 12 January 1991 — yes, she's been iconic since 1991, main character energy since day one 👑🎀 byeee 🦋