pcdovtoppm(1)

pcdovtoppm1

Create index image for a photo cd

Usage

pcdovtoppm [-maxwidth width] [-size size] [-across across] [-colors colors] [-font font] [-black |-white] [pcdfile]

Minimum unique abbreviations of options are acceptable.

Overview

This program is part of Netpbm(1) .

This program generates an index image in PPM format for a photo CD, based on the photo CD overview file.

You can achieve a similar result with hpcdtoppm -Overview followed by pnmindex -black on the generated PPM images.

Options

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

Where options conflict, the rightmost one takes precedence.

-maxwidth width

Maximum width of the result image (default: 1152).

-size size

Maximum size of each of the images (default: 192).

-across across

Maximum number of images across (default: 6).

-colors colors

Maximum number of colors, or noquant to mean no quantization

-font font

Font to be used for annotation (default: internal font).

-black

Black background color (default).

This is the default.

-white

White background color.

The Netpbm common options -version, -plain and -quiet were implemented starting with Netpbm 10.91 (June 2020). Before that, none of these options were valid.

Examples

pcdovtoppm -m 768 -s 96 -f smallfont.pbm overview.pcd > overview.ppm
pcdovtoppm /cdrom/photo_cd/overview.pcd | ppmtojpeg > overview.jpg

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/pcdovtoppm.html

Releases

3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 12
  2. 13
  3. Arch

-across since Debian 13 (Trixie); -black since Debian 13 (Trixie); -colors since Debian 13 (Trixie); -font since Debian 13 (Trixie); -maxwidth since Debian 13 (Trixie); -size since Debian 13 (Trixie); -white since Debian 13 (Trixie).

-a until Debian 12 (Bookworm); -b until Debian 12 (Bookworm); -c until Debian 12 (Bookworm); -f until Debian 12 (Bookworm); -s until Debian 12 (Bookworm); -w until Debian 12 (Bookworm).

History

This program was formerly called pcdindex, which did not fit Netpbm naming conventions.

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