PPMTOPICT(1)

💅 ppmtopict — the manual, but make it cute

okay bestie, gather round, because we're about to turn a whole PPM image into a Macintosh PICT file and honestly? iconic behavior. this is the ppmtopict page from the Netpbm gang.

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✨ NAME ✨

ppmtopict — convert a PPM image to a Macintosh PICT file 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ppmtopict

[ppmfile]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this program is part of Netpbm(1) — you know, the family 💖

ppmtopict reads a PPM image as its input and produces a Macintosh PICT file as output. that's the whole vibe. in goes PPM, out comes PICT. slay. ✨

ngl there's a lil catch you need to know about: the file it generates is only the data fork of a picture. that's it. just the data fork. so to actually make something MacOS will recognize as a PICT file, you're gonna need a program like mcvert to generate a Macbinary or a BinHex file that carries the necessary information to identify the file as a PICT file to MacOS. no shortcuts, bestie 🫶

and here's a fun fact for the vibe check: even though PICT can have 2 and 4 bits per pixel, ppmtopict always generates an 8 bits per pixel file. always. every time. no options, no choices, it's giving consistent 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

Okay so listen — there are, like, no command line options defined specifically for ppmtopict. none. zero. the girl is a simple queen 👑

But! she does recognize the options that are common to all programs based on libnetpbm. (See Common Options.) so those ones? still available. iykyk 😌

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⚠️ LIMITATIONS ⚠️

bestie, pay attention, this one's important 💀

The picture size field is correct only if the output is to a file, since writing into this field requires seeking backwards on a file. that's just the way it is, no cap.

However — and this is the plot twist — the PICT documentation seems to suggest that this field is not critical anyway, since it is only the lower 16 bits of the picture size. so like. no big deal? maybe? 🙈

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• picttoppm(1)
• ppm(1)
• mcvert

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (C) 1990 by Ken Yap <ken@cs.rocester.edu>.

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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/ppmtopict.html

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okay that's the whole page, you ate it up fr fr 🌈 this was Netpbm documentation, and the date on this lil masterpiece is 15 April 1990 ⭐ thanks for reading, love u, go convert some images 💜