PTOANCHOR(1)

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💖 PTOANCHOR(1) 💖

ok so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, bestie, and it's literally all about ptoanchor, a little Perl script that's out here adding control points to your Hugin projects. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

ptoanchor — the way that it adds control points to a Hugin project. that's it. that's the whole job. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

so the basic vibe is:

ptoanchor [options] --output output.pto input.pto

and here's the full options menu, bestie:

 -m | --makefile file  Output Makefile
 -o | --output file    Output project
 -h | --help           Outputs help documentation.

like, you got -m / --makefile for a Makefile, -o / --output for the output project, and -h / --help when you just need the docs to read you back. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea: ptoanchor is a wrapper around various tools (yes, plural, it's got range 🫶). what it does is generate control points and optimise a Hugin project, and it takes a .pto project as input. the output? also a .pto project. symmetrical. iconic. periodt.

now, the --makefile situation:

  • if you give it the --makefile option, then the rules for generating the project get written out into a Makefile instead of running right away
  • if --makefile is not set, then those rules just get executed immediately — no waiting around, main character energy ⚡

and one more thing that lowkey matters a lot: stacks get passed to align_image_stack for processing, but for that to happen they have to be indicated with i-line j parameters in the input project file. like, the program isn't gonna guess, you have to tell it. iykyk. 🔥

🌈 LICENSE 🌈

fr fr, here's the legal bit and we keep it exactly as it is:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

so yeah, GNU General Public License, version 2 or later, your choice bestie. 💜

💫 SEE ALSO 💫

go touch some grass and also go here:

that's the Hugin site, that's where the lore lives. ⭐

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Bruno Postle — November 2009. yeah, this one's been around a minute, and honestly? still slaying. 🎀

heads up: this page is from the Perl docs, so if something's giving undefined behaviour, that's a you-and-your-perl situation, not a me situation. 💀

and that's the whole page bestie, no crumbs left. this came to you from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and it's the PTOANCHOR(1) page — so go forth, anchor those control points, and eat. 💅✨🌸

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