biff2pnm

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Name

biff2pnm - BIFF to Portable Bit/Gray/Pixel Map conversion

Syntax

 biff2pnm [<option>...] <BIFF-infile> <pnm-outfile>

Description

Read a BIFF-image and convert the first band to one of the formats pbm (portable bitmap), pgm (portable graymap) or ppm (portable pixmap). Write the result to a pnm-file (pnm: portable anymap).

If the BIFF-image is two-valued, write a pbm-image. If the BIFF-image consists of more than two different values, write a pgm-image. Use option "-rgb" (see below) for rgb images and ppm-format.

The data type of pixelvalue components in pbm/pgm/ppm is either unsigned char or unsigned short, depending on how the pbm package was compiled. biff2pnm converts the BIFF band to the correct pixeltype before conversion to pbm/pgm/ppm. The pixeltype conversion does not imply any scaling. Values too large (or too small) to be represented by the new pixeltype are set to the maximum (or minimum) possible value. A warning is issued to this effect.

User "-" as filename arguments for stdin and stdout.

Options

-rgb
If the BIFF image consists of three bands, assume that they represent red, green and blue color components. Write a ppm-image.

-a
Write a plain-format file (ascii), as opposed to a raw-format one (binary).

See also

pnm2biff(1), XITE(1), biff2raw(1)

References

Documentation for the pbmplus or netpbm free software packages.

Author

Svein Bøe, Blab, Ifi, UiO

Examples

 biff2pnm monabinary.pnm monabinary.img

Id

$Id: biff2pnm.c,v 1.9 1997/09/01 12:18:07 svein Exp $