PPMTOPICT

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.
      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>.