pfmtopam(1)

pfmtopam1

Convert pfm (portable float map) image to netpbm format

Usage

pfmtopam [-maxval=n] [-verbose] [imagefile]

All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. You may use two hyphens instead of one. You may separate an option name and its value with white space instead of an equals sign.

Overview

This program is part of Netpbm(1) .

pfmtopam reads a PFM (Portable Float Map) image and converts it to PAM.

See pamtopfm(1) for a description of PFM.

If you want one of the older, more portable Netpbm formats, run the output through pamtopnm.

pamtopfm creates a PAM with tuple type "RGB" or "GRAYSCALE" depending on whether or not the PFM is in the color subformat.

Use pamtopfm(1) to convert a PFM image to Netpbm format.

Options

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

-maxval=n

This specifies the maxval for the PAM. Default is 255.

-verbose

This causes pfmtopam to display messages describing
the PFM input file.

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/pfmtopam.html

Releases

3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 12–13
  2. Arch

History

pfmtopam was added to Netpbm in Release 10.22 (April 2004).

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