pbmtomda(1)

pbmtomda1

Convert a pbm image to a microdesign .mda

Usage

pbmtomda

[-dscale] [-invert] [--]

[pbmfile]

Minimum unique abbreviation of option is acceptable. You may use double hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options. You may use white space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from its value.

Overview

This program is part of Netpbm(1) .

pbmtomda reads a PBM image as input and produces a MicroDesign 2 area file (.MDA) as output.

If you do not specify pbmfile, pbmtomda uses Standard Input.

Options

In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see
Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ), pbmtomda recognizes the following command line options:

-d

Halve the height of the output file, to compensate for the aspect ratio used in MicroDesign files.

-i

Invert the colors used.

--

End of options (use this if the filename starts with "-")

Limitations

There's no way to produce files in MicroDesign 3 format. MD3 itself and mdatopbm(1) can read files in either format.

Document source

This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source. The master documentation is at

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pbmtomda.html

Releases

13 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 3.0–11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

Author

Copyright (C) 1999 John Elliott <[email protected]>.

From netpbm 10.86.51-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.