TGATOPPM(1)

🦋 tgatoppm — the glow-up your Targa files have been waiting for

okay bestie, welcome to the Tgatoppm User Manual, straight out of the General Commands Manual 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

tgatoppm — convert a TrueVision Targa file to a PPM image 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tgatoppm [--alphaout={alpha-filename,-}] [--headerdump] tga-filename

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So, this program is part of Netpbm(1). Family reunion moment 🫶

tgatoppm reads a TrueVision Targa file as its input and produces a PPM image as its output. That's it. That's the whole personality. Iconic behaviour, honestly. ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

On top of the options that are common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, peep the Common Options section), tgatoppm also recognises these command line options, periodt:

All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. fr fr, just the shortest one that's still unambiguous. 🧚

• --alphaout=alpha-filename — this makes tgatoppm create a PGM image holding all the transparency channel values from the input image. Now, if the input image has no transparency channel at all? The alpha-filename file just ends up full of all zero (transparent) transparency values. And listen — if you don't specify --alphaout, then tgatoppm does not generate an alpha file, and if the input image does happen to have a transparency channel, tgatoppm simply discards it. 😭 the disrespect. But okay.
  • If you pass - as the filename, tgatoppm writes the transparency output to Standard Output and discards the image. Wild, but true. 💀
  • Peep pamcomp(1) for one way you can use that transparency output file.
• --headerdump — causes tgatoppm to dump the information from the TGA header over to Standard Error. Spilling the tea, literally. 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

ppmtotga(1), pamcomp(1), ppm(1)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Partially based on tga2rast, version 1.0, by Ian J. MacPhedran. 🫡

Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.

🍓 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/tgatoppm.html

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and that's a wrap, bestie 🎀 this was the netpbm documentation Tgatoppm User Manual, dated 02 April 2000 — mwah, go convert something cute ✨💅🦋