sunicontopnm1

Usage

Overview

This program is part of Netpbm(1) .

sunicontopnm reads a Sun icon as input and produces a PBM or PGM image as output.

If the input is of the Depth=8 variety, the output is PGM. Otherwise, it is PBM. Before Netpbm 10.53 (December 2010), the program would not work on a Depth=8 icon.

If the input is color, the output is still PGM (the program can't do any better because developers haven't figured out how). If you know the palette used by the Sun icon image, you can use pamlookup to convert the PGM output to the proper color Netpbm image.

Options

There are no command line options defined specifically for sunicontopnm, but it recognizes the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (See
Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ .)

About sun icons

It seems that this icon format was used in Sunview and was usable in its successor Openlook/Openwindows in Sun 4.1.1, which offered backward compatibility for Sunview, including the icons. Sunview's desktop was monochrome. OpenWindows had color icons. Sun 4 came with OpenWindows. OpenWindows appears to have been an X-based gui so presumably the icons were mostly XPM files.

So in addition to sunicontopnm, you should try xpmtoppm and xbmtopbm on icons from a Sun Workstation.

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/sunicontopnm.html