pngtopnm(1)
NAME
pngtopnm - convert a Portable Network Graphics file into portable anymap
SYNOPSIS
pngtopnm [-verbose] [-alpha | -mix] [-background color] [-gamma value] [-text file] [-time] [pngfile]
DESCRIPTION
Reads a Portable Network Graphics as input. Produces a portable anymap as output. The type of the output file depends on the input file - if it's black & white, a pbm file is written, else if it's grayscale a pgm file, else a ppm file.
OPTIONS
-verbose
Display the format of the input file and the type of the output
file. If the chunks are part of the png-file, the alpha,
transparency and gamma-values will be indicated.
-alpha Output the alpha channel or transparency mask of the image. The
result is either a pbm file or pgm file, depending on whether
different levels of transparency appear.
-mix Compose the image with the transparency or alpha mask against a
the background. When a background chunk is available that color
is taken, else black will do.
-background color
If no background color chunck is present in the png-file, or
when another color is required this parameter can be used to set
the background color of images. This is especially useful for
alpha-channel images or those with transparency chunks. The
format, to specify the color in, is either (in the case of
orange) "1.0,0.5,0.0", where the values are floats between zero
and one, or with the syntax "#RGB", "#RRGGBB" or "#RRRRGGGGBBBB"
where R, G and B are hexa-decimal numbers.
-gamma value
Converts the image to a new display-gamma value. When a gAMA
chunk is present in the png-file, the image-gamma value will be
used. When not, the image-gamma is considered to be 1.0. Based
on the image-gamma and the display-gamma given with this option
the colors written to the pnm-file will be adjusted.
Because the gamma's of uncompensated monitors are around 2.6,
which results in an image-gamma of 0.45, some typical situations
are: when the image-gamma is 0.45 (use -verbose to check) and
the picture is too light, your system is gamma-corrected, so
convert with "-gamma 1.0". When no gAMA chunk is present or the
image-gamma is 1.0, use 2.2 to make the picture lighter and 0.45
to make the picture darker.
-text file
Writes the tEXt and zTXt chunks to a file, in a format as
described in the pnmtopng man-page. These chunks contain text
comments or annotations.
-time Prints the tIME chunk to stderr.
All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.
SEE ALSO
pnmtopng(1), ptot(1), pnmgamma(1), pnm(5)
NOTE
Instead of pngtopnm|pnmtoxxx, a specific converter should be used, if available. E.g. ptot (PNG to TIFF conversion), etc.
BUGS
There could be an option to read the comment text from pnm comments instead of a separate file. The program could be much faster, with a bit of code optimizing.
AUTHORS
Copyright (C) 1995-1997 by Alexander Lehmann
and Willem van Schaik.
6 January 1997 pngtopnm(1)
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