freebsd man page for ppmtopict

ppmtopict(1)						      General Commands Manual						      ppmtopict(1)

NAME
       ppmtopict - convert a portable pixmap into a Macintosh PICT file

SYNOPSIS
       ppmtopict [ppmfile]

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.  How-
       ever 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(1), ppm(5), mcvert(1)

AUTHOR
       Copyright (C) 1990 by Ken Yap <ken@cs.rocester.edu>.

								   15 April 1990						      ppmtopict(1)