ppmtopict
convert a portable pixmap into a Macintosh PICT file
Synopsis
ppmtopict
[ppmfile]
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examples
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description
Reads a
portable pixmap as input. Produces a Macintosh PICT file as
output.
The generated
file is only the data fork of a picture. You will need a
program such as mcvert to generate a Macbinary or a
BinHex file that contains the necessary information to
identify the file as a PICT file to MacOS.
Even though
PICT supports 2 and 4 bits per pixel, ppmtopict
always generates an 8 bits per pixel file.
bugs
The picture
size field is only correct if the output is to a file since
writing into this field requires seeking backwards on a
file. However the PICT documentation seems to suggest that
this field is not critical anyway since it is only the lower
16 bits of the picture size.
see also
picttoppm,
ppm, mcvert
author
Copyright (C)
1990 by Ken Yap <ken[:at:]cs.rocester[:dot:]edu>.