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The Netpbm Program Directory.

Converters

pnmtopnm 

convert PNM image to PNM raw or plain

pgmtopgm 

convert PGM or PBM image to PGM

ppmtoppm 

convert PPM, PGM, or PBM image to PPM

pbmtopgm 

convert PBM image to PGM by averaging areas

pgmtopbm 

(Obsolete) convert PGM image to PBM by dithering

pgmtoppm 

colorize a PGM into a PPM

ppmtopgm 

convert PPM image to PGM

ppmtompeg 

convert series of PPM frames to an MPEG movie

jpegtopnm 

convert JFIF/JPEG/EXIF file to Netpbm format

pnmtojpeg 

convert PNM to JPEG/JFIF/EXIF format

pamtojpeg2k 

convert PNM/PAM to JPEG-2000 code stream

jpeg2ktopam 

convert JPEG-2000 code stream to PAM/PNM

anytopnm 

convert any graphics format to Netpbm format

bmptopnm 

convert Windows or OS/2 Bitmap file to PPM or PGM

ppmtobmp 

convert PPM to Windows or OS/2 Bitmap file

winicontoppm 

convert Windows icon file to PPM

ppmtowinicon 

convert PPM to Windows icon file

giftopnm 

convert GIF to PNM

ppmtogif 

convert PPM to GIF

pnmtopng 

convert Netpbm format to Portable Network Graphics

pngtopnm 

convert PNG (Portable Network Graphics) to Netpbm formats

pamrgbatopng 

convert PAM color/transparency image to PNG

palmtopnm 

convert Palm pixmap to Netpbm formats

pnmtopalm 

convert Netpbm formats to Palm pixmap

ddbugtopbm 

convert Palm DiddleBug image to PBM

jbigtopnm 

convert JBIG BIE (compressed bitmap) to PNM

pamtopnm 

convert a PAM image to PBM, PGM, or PPM

pnmtojbig 

convert PNM to JBIG BIE (compressed bitmap)

pnmtofiasco 

convert Netpbm image to Fiasco (wfa) highly compressed format

fiascotopnm 

convert Fiasco (wfa) highly compressed format to Netpbm image

pamtosvg 

convert Netpbm image to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG); trace image

pamtopfm 

convert PAM/PNM to HDRshop PFM (Portable Float Map)

pfmtopam 

convert HDRshop PFM (Portable Float Map) to PAM

pbmtomrf 

convert PBM image to MRF (compressed bitmap)

mrftopbm 

convert MRF (compressed bitmap) to PBM

hpcdtoppm 

convert photo CD to PPM

pcdovtoppm 

Convert a photo CD PCD overview file to PPM

pbmtonokia 

convert PBM to Nokia Smart Messaging Format (SMF)

pbmtowbmp 

convert PBM to WAP (Wireless App Protocol) Wireless Bitmap

wbmptopbm 

convert WAP (Wireless App Protocol) Wireless Bitmap to PBM

pamtohtmltbl 

convert PNM/PAM to an HTML table with a colored cell for each pixel

pbmtomda 

convert from PBM to Microdesign (for Amstrad PCWs)

mdatopbm 

convert from Microdesign (for Amstrad PCWs) to PBM

atktopbm 

convert Andrew Toolkit raster object to PBM

pbmtoatk 

convert PBM to Andrew Toolkit raster object

brushtopbm 

convert Xerox doodle brushes to PBM

cmuwmtopbm 

convert CMU window manager format to PBM

g3topbm 

convert Group 3 FAX to PBM

pbmtog3 

convert PBM to Group 3 FAX

icontopbm 

convert Sun icon to PBM

pbmtoicon 

convert PBM to Sun icon

gemtopnm 

convert GEM .img format to PBM or pixmap

macptopbm 

convert MacPaint to PBM

pbmtomacp 

convert PBM to MacPaint

mgrtopbm 

convert MGR format to PBM

pbmtomgr 

convert PBM to MGR format

infotopam 

convert Amiga .info icons to PAM

neotoppm 

convert Atari Neochrome (.neo) image to PPM

ppmtoneo 

convert PPM image to Atari Neochrome (.neo)

pi1toppm 

convert Atari Degas .pi1 to PPM

ppmtopi1 

convert PPM to Atari Degas .pi1

pc1toppm 

convert Atari Degas .pc1 (compressed pi1) to PPM

pi3topbm 

convert Atari Degas .pi3 to PBM

pbmtopi3 

convert PBM to Atari Degas .pi3

xbmtopbm 

convert X10 or X11 bitmap to PBM

pbmtoxbm 

convert PBM to X11 bitmap

pbmtox10bm 

convert PBM to X10 bitmap

ybmtopbm 

convert Bennet Yee "face" file into PBM

pbmtoybm 

convert PBM into Bennet Yee "face" file

pbmtoepson 

convert PBM to Epson 9-pin printer graphics

pbmtoescp2 

convert PBM to Epson ESC/P2 printer graphics

escp2topbm

convert Epson ESC/P2 printer graphics to PBM

pbmto10x

convert PBM to Gemini 10x printer graphics

pnmtopclxl

convert PNM to HP PCL-XL (PCL 6) printer language

ppmtopjxl

convert from PPM to HP Paintjet XL PCL printer stream

pbmtolj

convert PBM to HP LaserJet black and white graphics

ppmtolj

convert PPM to HP LaserJet color graphics (PCL 5)

pjtoppm

convert HP PaintJet file to PPM

ppmtopj

convert PPM to HP PaintJet file

thinkjettopbm

convert HP Thinkjet printer stream to PBM

pbmtoppa

convert PBM to HP PPA (Printer Performance Architecture) printer stream

ppmtomitsu

convert from PPM to Mitsubishi S340-10 printer stream

pbmtoibm23xx

convert from PBM to IBM 23XX printer stream

ppmtoterm

Display PPM image on ANSI standard text terminal

pbmto4425

Display PBM image on AT&T 4425 ASCII terminal with gfx chars

pbmtoascii

convert PBM to ASCII graphic form

asciitopgm

convert ASCII character graphics to PGM

pbmtobbnbg

convert PBM to BBN BitGraph graphics

pbmtocmuwm

convert PBM to CMU window manager format

pbmtogem

convert PBM into GEM .img file

pbmtogo

convert PBM to GraphOn graphics

pbmtoplot

convert PBM into Unix plot file

pbmtoptx

convert PBM to Printronix graphics

pbmtozinc

convert PBM to Zinc Interface Library icon

fitstopnm

convert FITS format to PNM

pamtofits

convert Netpbm formats to FITS format

fstopgm

convert Usenix FaceSaver(tm) format to PGM

pgmtofs

convert PGM to Usenix FaceSaver(tm) format

hipstopgm

convert HIPS format to PGM

lispmtopgm

convert a Lisp Machine bitmap file into PGM format

pgmtolispm

convert PGM into Lisp Machine format

pnmtops

convert Netpbm formats to Postscript

pstopnm

convert Postscript to Netpbm formats

psidtopgm

convert PostScript "image" data to PGM

pbmtolps

convert PBM image to Postscript using lines

pbmtoepsi

convert a PBM image to encapsulated Postscript preview bitmap

pbmtopsg3

convert PBM images to Postscript using G3 fax compression.

rawtopgm

convert raw grayscale bytes to PGM

gouldtoppm

convert Gould scanner file to PPM

ilbmtoppm

convert IFF ILBM to PPM

ppmtoilbm

convert PPM to IFF ILBM

imgtoppm

convert Img-whatnot to PPM

mtvtoppm

convert MTV ray-tracer output to PPM

pcxtoppm

convert PC Paintbrush format to PPM

picttoppm

convert Macintosh PICT to PPM

ppmtopict

convert PPM to Macintosh PICT

qrttoppm

convert QRT ray-tracer output to PPM

rawtoppm

convert raw RGB bytes to PPM

sldtoppm

convert an AutoCAD slide file into a PPM

spctoppm

convert Atari compressed Spectrum to PPM

sputoppm

convert Atari uncompressed Spectrum to PPM

tgatoppm

convert TrueVision Targa file to PPM

pamtotga

convert PAM to TrueVision Targa file

ximtoppm

convert Xim to PPM

xpmtoppm

convert XPM format to PPM

ppmtoxpm

convert PPM to XPM format

yuvtoppm

convert Abekas YUV format to PPM

eyuvtoppm

convert Encoder/Berkeley YUV format to PPM

ppmtoeyuv

convert PPM to Encoder/Berkeley YUV format

ppmtoyuv

convert PPM to Abekas YUV format

ppmtoyuvsplit

convert PPM to 3 subsampled raw Stanford MPEG YUV files

yuvsplittoppm

merge 3 subsampled raw YUV files to one PPM

ppmtoacad

convert PPM to AutoCAD database or slide

ppmtoicr

convert PPM to NCSA ICR graphics

ppmtopcx

convert PPM to PC Paintbrush format

ppmtopuzz

convert PPM to X11 "puzzle" file

rasttopnm

convert Sun raster file to Netpbm formats

pnmtorast

convert Netpbm formats to Sun raster file

tifftopnm

convert TIFF file to PNM

pamtotiff

convert Netpbm formats to TIFF RGB file

pnmtotiffcmyk

convert Netpbm formats to TIFF CMYK file

xwdtopnm

convert X10 or X11 window dump to Netpbm formats

pnmtoxwd

convert Netpbm formats to X11 window dump

cameratopam

convert raw camera image to PAM

411toppm

convert 411 (Sony Mavica) to PPM

ppmtosixel

convert PPM to DEC sixel format

ppmtouil

convert PPM to Motif UIL icon file

sbigtopgm

convert Santa Barbara Instrument Group CCD file to PGM

vidtoppm

convert Parallax XVideo JPEG to sequence of PPM files

pnmtorle

convert PNM to Utah Raster Toolkit (urt/rle) file

rletopnm

convert Utah Raster Toolkit (urt/rle) file to PNM

pamtodjvurle

convert PNM/PAM to DjVu Color RLE format

pbmtodjvurle

convert PBM to DjVu Bitonal RLE format

rlatopam

convert Alias/Wavefront RLA and RPF to PAM

ppmtoleaf

convert PPM to Interleaf

leaftoppm

convert Interleaf to PPM

bioradtopgm

convert Biorad confocal image to PGM

pbmtoln03

convert PGM image to Dec LN03+ Sixel image

pbmtopk

convert PBM image to packed format (PK) font

pktopbm

convert packed format (PK) font to PBM image

pamtohdiff

convert PAM image to horizontal difference version of same

hdifftopam

convert horizontal difference PAM back to original image

pnmtoddif

convert from Netpbm formats to DDIF

pnmtosgi

convert from Netpbm formats to SGI format

sgitopnm

convert from SGI format to Netpbm formats

pnmtosir

convert from Netpbm formats to Solitaire Image Recorder file (MGI Type 11 or 17)

sirtopnm

convert from Solitaire Image Recorder file to Netpbm formats.

spottopgm

convert SPOT satellite image to PGM

pamtovmini

convert from Netpbm formats to Xv "thumbnail" picture

xvminitoppm

convert Xv "thumbnail" picture to PPM

zeisstopnm

convert a Zeiss confocal file to Netpbm format

ppmtoarbtxt.html

convert PPM to just about any text-based format, using a grammar file

Image Generators

Note: All of these generate Netpbm format output.

pbmmake 

create a blank PBM image of a specified size

pgmmake 

create a PGM image of a specified size and shade of gray

ppmmake 

create a PPM image of a specified size and color

pgmramp 

generate a grayscale ramp (gradient)

pamgradient 

create a four-corner gradient image

ppmpat 

create a pretty PPM image

ppmrainbow 

create a spectrum-like image with colors fading together.

ppmrough 

create PPM image of two colors with a ragged border between them

pgmnoise 

create a PGM image of white noise

pbmtext 

render text into a PBM image

pbmtextps 

render text into a PBM image using a Postscript interpreter

pbmupc 

create a Universal Product Code PBM image

pamstereogram 

create a single image stereogram from a height map

ppmwheel 

generate a hue-value color wheel

ppmcie 

generate a CIE color map PPM image

pbmpage 

create a printer test pattern page in PBM format

pamseq 

create a PAM image of all possible tuple values. E.g. a color map containing all possible colors of given maxval

pamgauss 

create a PAM image of a Gaussian (bell curve; normal curve) function.

ppm3d 

generate a blue/green 3D glasses image from two images

Image Editors

Note: All of these work on the Netpbm formats.

ppmlabel

Add text to an image

ppmdraw

Draw text, lines, shapes, etc. on an image

ppmshadow

add a shadow to an image so it looks like it's floating

pgmdeshadow

deshadow a PGM image

ppmbrighten

brighten or dim an image -- change saturation and value

ppmflash

brighten an image

ppmdim

dim an image - different way from ppmbrighten

ppmfade

Produce series of images fading from one to another

pbmreduce

reduce a PBM N times, using Floyd-Steinberg

pnmnorm

normalize contrast

pbmpscale

enlarge a PBM image with edge smoothing

pamscale

scale/resample an image with high precision

pnmscale

scale an image with high precision - obsolete

pnmscalefixed

scale an image quickly with low precision

pamenlarge

enlarge an image N times

pamperspective

Change perspective distortion in an image

ppmdither

ordered dither for color images

pamditherbw

dither a grayscale image to black and white (convert PGM to PBM)

pamthreshold

threshold a grayscale image to black and white (convert PGM to PBM)

pnmcolormap

Choose the N best colors to represent an image; create a colormap

pnmremap

Replace colors in an image with those from a color map

ppmquant

quantize colors in a color image down to fewer colors - obsolete

pnmquant

quantize colors/shades in a color or grayscale image down to fewer

ppmquantall

quantize colors on many files

ppmrelief

run a Laplacian Relief filter on a PPM

pamfunc

apply simple arithmetic function to samples in an image

pamarith

apply simple arithmetic binary function to samples in two images

pamsummcol

summarize (sum, average, etc) an image by column

pnmcat

concatenate images

pnmpad

add borders to an image

pamcomp

create composite (overlay) of images

pnmcomp

obsolete version of pamcomp (kept because it may have fewer bugs)

ppmmix

mix (overlay) two images.

pnmcrop

crop all like-colored borders off an image

pamcut

select a rectangular region from an image

pnmcut

obsolete version of pamcut (kept because it may have fewer bugs)

pamdice

slice an image into many horizontally and/or vertically

pamdeinterlace

remove every other row from an image

pammixinterlace

mix adjacent lines to merge interlaced images

pnmstitch

stitch together panoramic (side-by-side) photographs

ppmglobe

Turn a cylindrical projection into strips that can be glued onto a sphere

pamlookup

map an image to a new image by using it as indices into a table

pamdepth

change the maxval in an image

pamendian

Swap bytes in multi-byte samples of a PAM image

pamflip

perform one or more flip operations on an image

pamstretch

scale up an image by inserting interpolated pixels

pamstretch-gen

scale by non-integer values using pamstretch and pamscale

pnminvert

invert an image

pnmgamma

perform gamma correction on an image

pnmhisteq

histogram equalize image to increase contrast

pnmmargin

add a margin to an image

pnmpaste

paste a rectangle into an image

pnmrotate

rotate an image

pnmshear

shear an image

pgmabel

create cross-section of an image using Abel integration for deconvolution

pnmsmooth

smooth an image

pgmmedian

apply a median filter to an image

pamaddnoise

add noise to an image

pnmtile

replicate an image into a specified size

pbmclean

remove lone pixels (snow) from a PBM image

pnmalias

antialias an image

ppmchange

change all of one color to another in PPM image

pnmnlfilt

filter an image by replacing each pixel with a function of nearby pixels

ppmshift

shift lines of PPM image left or right a random amount

ppmspread

move pixels of PPM image a random amount

pnmconvol

general MxN convolution on an image. Can blur an image.

pgmmorphconv

perform morphological convolutions on a PGM image: dilation and erosion.

pgmminkowski

Compute Minkowski integral over a PGM image

pamedge

edge-detect (outline) an image

pammasksharpen

sharpen an image via an unsharp mask

rgb3toppm

combine three PGMs into one PPM

ppmtorgb3

separate a PPM into three PGMs

pgmenhance

edge-enhance a PGM image

pbmlife

apply Conway's rules of Life to a PBM image

ppmdist

map colors to high contrast grayscales arbitrarily

ppmntsc

adjust colors so they are legal for NTSC or PAL television

Image Analyzers

Note: These all work on the Netpbm formats as input.

pamfile 

describe an image's vital characteristics

pnmpsnr 

measure difference between two images

pamslice 

print a row or column of an image in ASCII decimal

pgmtexture 

calculate textural features on a PGM image

pgmhist 

print a histogram of the values in a PGM image

ppmhist 

print a histogram of a PPM

pnmhistmap 

draw a histogram of a PGM or PPM

pnmcolormap 

create quantization color map for an image

pamsumm 

Summarize (sum, average, etc.) all samples in an image

pamsharpness 

measure the sharpness of an image

pamsharpmap 

create map of sharpness in an image

pamtilt 

Measure the tilt of an image, i.e. document skew

Miscellaneous

pamchannel 

extract individual planes (channel, e.g. R, G, or B) from an image

pamstack 

stack the planes of multiple PAM images into a single output image

pampick 

pick images out of a multi-image Netpbm image stream

pamsplit 

split a multi-image Netpbm file into multiple 1-image files

pambayer 

interpret Bayer patterns

pamx 

display a Netpbm image in an X Window System window

ppmsvgalib 

display a PPM image on a Linux virtual console using Svgalib

pbmmask 

create a mask bitmap from a regular bitmap

ppmcolormask 

create mask of areas of a certain color in an image

pnmindex 

build a visual index of a bunch of Netpbm images

pnmmontage 

build multiple Netpbm images into a single montage image

pgmbentley 

Bentleyize a PGM image

pgmcrater 

create cratered terrain by fractal forgery

pamoil 

turn a PNM or PAM image into an oil painting

ppmforge 

fractal forgeries of clouds, planets, and starry skies

pgmkernel 

generate a convolution kernel

ppmtv 

make an image lined so it looks like an old TV

pampop9 

simulate a multi-lens camera such as the Pop9

ppmdmkfont 

create Ppmdfont "standard"

ppmddumpfont 

dump a Ppmdfont file

ppmdcfont 

Turn a Ppmdfont file into C source for a builtin font

Obsolete Names

There used to be programs by the following names. Each has been either renamed to a more illustrative name, or superseded by a more general function. In most cases, Netpbm is installed with symbolic links that allow old programs and procedures to use these names but run the replacement programs:

• ppmtotga
• pnmnoraw
• gemtopbm
• pnminterp
• pgmoil
• ppmtojpeg
• bmptoppm
• pgmnorm
• ppmnorm
• pnmfile
• pnmarith
• pgmedge
• ppmtoouil
• pnmtoplainpnm
• pnmtofits
• pnmtotiff
• pnmsplit
• pnmdepth

External links

• Source