Rletopnm User Manual
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Updated: 13 April 2000
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NAME
rletopnm - convert a Utah Raster Tools RLE image file to a PNM image file.
SYNOPSIS
rletopnm
[--alphaout={alpha-filename,-}]
[--headerdump|-h]
[--verbose|-v]
[rlefile|-]
All options may be abbreviated to their minimum unique abbreviation
and options and arguments may be in any order.
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of
Netpbm(1).
rletopnm converts Utah Raster Toolkit RLE image files to PNM
image files. rletopnm handles four types of RLE files:
Grayscale (8 bit data, no color map), Pseudocolor (8 bit data with a
color map), Truecolor (24 bit data with color map), and Directcolor
(24 bit data, no color map). rletopnm generates a PPM file for
all these cases except for the Grayscale file, for which
rletopnm generates a PGM file.
rlefile is the RLE input file. If it is absent or -,
the input comes from Standard Input.
OPTIONS
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(most notably -quiet, see
Common Options
), rletopnm recognizes the following
command line options:
- --alphaout=alpha-filename
-
rletopnm creates a PGM (portable graymap) file containing the
transparency channel values in the input image. If the input image doesn't
contain an transparency channel, the alpha-filename file contains all
zero (transparent) transparency values. If you don't specify
--alphaout, rletopnm does not generate a transparency file,
and if the input image has a transparency channel, rletopnm simply
discards it.
If you specify - as the filename, rletopnm writes the
transparency output to Standard Output and discards the image.
See
pamcomp(1) for one way to use
the transparency output file.
- --verbose
-
This option causes rletopnm to operate in verbose mode.
It prints messages about what it's doing, including the contents of
the RLE image header, to Standard Error.
- --headerdump
-
This option causes rletopnm to operate in header dump mode.
It prints the contents of the RLE image header to Standard Error, but
does not produce any other output.
EXAMPLES
- •
-
While running in verbose mode, convert lenna.rle to PPM format and
store the resulting image as lenna.ppm:
rletopnm --verbose lenna.rle >lenna.ppm
- •
-
Dump the header information of the RLE file called file.rle:
rletopnm --headerdump file.rle
- •
-
Convert RLE file dart.rle to PPM format as dart.ppm. Store the
transparency channel of dart.rle as dartalpha.pgm (if dart.rle doesn't have
a transparency channel, store a fully transparent transparency mask as
dartalpha.pgm):
rletopnm --alphaout=dartalpha.pgm dart.rle >dart.ppm
SEE ALSO
pnmtorle(1),
pnmconvol(1),
pnm(1),
ppm(1),
pgm(1),
AUTHOR
Wes Barris
Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC)
Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc.
Modifications by Eric Haines to produce raw and plain formats.
Modifications by Bryan Henderson to create transparency files and use
mnemonic options.
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/rletopnm.html