XIMTOPPM(1)

✨ XIMTOPPM(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Ximtoppm User Manual, section 1 of the general commands manual 💖 pull up a chair, this one's short and sweet.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ximtoppm — convert an Xim file to a PPM image 🦋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ximtoppm

[--alphaout={alpha-filename,-}] [ximfile]

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so first thing you need to know: this program is part of Netpbm(1). family reunion energy fr fr 🫶

ximtoppm reads an Xim file as input and produces a PPM image as output. that's the whole vibe. 💅

and for the lore girlies: the Xim toolkit is included in the contrib tree of the X.V11R4 release. iconic historical moment, no cap 📜✨

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

so in addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm — most notably -quiet, see Common Options — ximtoppm recognizes the following command line option:

✨ friendly reminder: you can abbreviate any option to its shortest unique prefix. lil shortcut, we love her 🥰

• --alphaout=alpha-filename — this makes ximtoppm create a PGM file holding the transparency channel values from the input image. and if the input image doesn't even have a transparency channel? the alpha-filename file just contains all zero (transparent) transparency values. mood: empty but honest 😭
  • if you don't specify --alphaout, ximtoppm does not generate a transparency file at all, and if the input image does have a transparency channel, ximtoppm simply discards it. bye bestie 👋💀
  • if you specify - as the filename, ximtoppm writes the transparency output to Standard Output and discards the image. so pick a lane, basically 🚀
  • okay but real talk, plot twist: an Xim image can actually contain an arbitrary fourth channel — it need not be a transparency channel at all. ximtoppm extracts any fourth channel it finds, exactly as described above; it doesn't matter if it's a transparency channel or not. it does not care. it does not ask questions 🧚
  • see pamcomp(1) for one way to use the transparency output file ✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• pamcomp(1)
• ppm(1)

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🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Copyright (C) 1991 by Jef Poskanzer. 💜

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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/ximtoppm.html

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🎀💅 sending you off with the official vibes: netpbm documentation, 02 April 2000 — Ximtoppm User Manual(1). periodt. 💖✨🦋