RLATOPAM(1)

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version 11.13.03 · 3 versions
, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 rlatopam — the Rlatopam User Manual, but make it a group chat 💖

okay bestie, gather round, we're in the General Commands Manual section today and the manual name is literally Rlatopam User Manual, so you know this is gonna be good. sit down, sip your iced coffee, let's convert some ancient-ass Alias files 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

rlatopam — she converts Alias/Wavefront RLA and RPF image files into PAM image files. that's the whole job. that's her whole personality and honestly? iconic. 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

rlatopam

[rlafile]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

first things first, this program is part of Netpbm(1), so she's got sisters. it's a whole family. 🫶

rlatopam takes an Alias RLA (that's run-length encoded type A, for the uninitiated 💅) or an RPF (rich pixel format) image and turns it into a PAM image file. and the output PAM file? she can be grayscale or RGB, and she can come with or without a transparency channel. choices! variety! main character energy! ✨

rlafile is the file name of the input file. so that's the thing you point her at. and if you just... don't give her a parameter? if you leave her hanging? 😭 she reads the image from Standard Input instead. no drama, she just adapts.

lowkey important: there is no program in Netpbm that converts the other direction.x — one-way street, bestie, no U-turns. (and yes the stray .x is in the original, not me, i don't make the rules 💀)

✨ OPTIONS ✨

okay so here's the tea: there are no command line options defined specifically for rlatopam. she came out the box with zero custom flags, minimal effort, still slaying.

BUT — and this is the important part — she does recognize the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm. (See Common Options.) so the shared fam options? those work. her specific ones? don't exist. periodt.

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

  • pam(1)

go read the sister page, she's right there, do it for me 🎀

✨ HISTORY ✨

rlatopam was new in Netpbm 10.32 (February 2006). so she's been here since 2006, quietly doing her thing, never asking for credit. a humble legend, fr fr. 🌸

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Simon Walton Matte World Digital

thank you king, we owe you everything 🙇‍♀️💜

✨ DOCUMENT SOURCE ✨

this manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool makeman from HTML source. the master documentation lives at:

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/rlatopam.html
and that's the whole page bestie, no cap, every single flag and file and name accounted for 🧚

okay bye ily, this was the netpbm documentation — dated 13 January 2006, straight from the Rlatopam User Manual(1) 💖✨🎀

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