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, ppm­
       topict 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(1), ppm(5), mcvert(1)


AUTHOR

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


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