PPMTOPUZZ(1)

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💖 PPMTOPUZZ 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for ppmtopuzz and it is genuinely so cute. it's a little Netpbm tool, it lives in the General Commands Manual, and its whole job is turning your PPM pics into something the X11 puzzle game can vibe with. let's get into it 🧚✨

✨ NAME ✨

ppmtopuzz — convert a PPM image to an X11 "puzzle" file

no cap, that's the whole job description 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ppmtopuzz

[ppmfile]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one optional file argument and she's off 🦋

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so first things first: this program is part of Netpbm(1). like, it's in the family. it belongs. periodt 💖

ppmtopuzz reads a PPM image as input, and produces an X11 "puzzle" file as output. that's the whole pipeline, bestie, in goes the PPM, out comes the puzzle file 🔥

now what even is a "puzzle" file, you ask? so glad you asked. a "puzzle" file is for use with the puzzle program included with the X11 distribution. and get this — puzzle's -picture option is literally how you specify an image file to it. so like, this is the pipeline that feeds that pipeline. it's giving teamwork. it's giving ecosystem 🌈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay so this is the part where we list all forty options right? ...no. there are no command line options defined specifically for ppmtopuzz. she's lowkey minimal like that, and honestly? iconic. she does one thing and she does it 💖

but — and this is important — she does recognize the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm. (See Common Options.) so she's not optionless, she's just not doing anything extra-special on top of the family defaults. iykyk ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • ppm(1)
  • puzzle

go read them, they're the whole lore 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (C) 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.

(this legend has been out here doing Netpbm since before most of us were born, fr fr. respect on the name 💜)

💜 DOCUMENT SOURCE 💜

fun meta moment: this manual page wasn't even hand-typed, bestie. it was generated by the Netpbm tool makeman from HTML source. the master documentation lives at:

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppmtopuzz.html

so if you want the origin story, that's where the source-of-truth is 🌸

okay that's the page!! and a lil sign-off for the record books: this is netpbm documentation, dated 22 August 1990, from the Ppmtopuzz User Manual(1) — stay puzzlin' bestie, mwah 💋💖✨

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