PNMTOXWD(1)

💅 PNMTOXWD(1) — the "Pnmtoxwd User Manual" glow-up ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual corner of the group chat 💖 today we're learning about pnmtoxwd, and honestly? she's giving quiet-legend energy.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pnmtoxwd — convert a PNM into an X11 window dump 🦋

like, she takes your cute little PNM pic and turns it into a whole X11 window dump. iconic behavior tbh.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pnmtoxwd

[-pseudodepth n]

[-directcolor]

[pnmfile]

no cap, that's the whole vibe. pnmfile is optional, the flags are optional, she's low-maintenance like that 🎀

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

First things first: this program is part of Netpbm(1). she didn't come alone, she came with the whole fam 🫶

So here's the tea: pnmtoxwd reads a PNM image as input and produces an X11 window dump as output. And you can display that output with xwud. yes, that's a real command, no I'm not joking, go look at SEE ALSO 💀

Now, the ✨default behavior✨ — she's picky in a cute way:

• Normally, pnmtoxwd produces a StaticGray dump file for PBM and PGM files.
• For PPM, she writes a PseudoColor dump file if there are up to 256 colors in the input.
• ...and a DirectColor dump file otherwise. periodt.

Okay now the nerdy-but-important part 🔥 In an X11 window dump file, various integers can be represented in either big endian (most significant byte first) or little endian code.

⚠️ bestie listen: the ones generated by pnmtoxwd are always big endian. she does not do little endian. she said pick a lane and she picked hers 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

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

• -directcolor — Output in DirectColor format. that's it. that's the whole flag. she's straightforward like that ✨
• -pseudodepth 1-16 — Set the depth of PseudoColor dump in bits. Values between 1 to 16 are accepted. Default is 8 (for a maximum of 256 colors.) so like, you got range, use it 🦋

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• xwdtopnm(1)
• pnm(1)
• xwud

go read those too, iykyk 🌈

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer. yeah, the original legend. respect the name 🫡💜

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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/pnmtoxwd.html

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 🎀 no notes, she ate 💅

netpbm documentation · 24 September 1991 · Pnmtoxwd User Manual(1) — okay mwah, go convert something, ily, bye 🦋💖✨