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+.\" This man page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.
+.\" Do not hand-hack it! If you have bug fixes or improvements, please find
+.\" the corresponding HTML page on the Netpbm website, generate a patch
+.\" against that, and send it to the Netpbm maintainer.
+.TH "Pamcat User Manual" 0 "30 November 2022" "netpbm documentation"
+
+.SH NAME
+
+pamcat - concatenate Netpbm images
+
+.UN synopsis
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+
+\fBpamcat\fP
+
+{\fB-leftright\fP | \fB-lr\fP | \fB-topbottom\fP | \fB-tb\fP}
+
+[\fB-white\fP|\fB-black\fP]
+
+[\fB-jtop\fP|\fB-jbottom\fP|\fB-jcenter\fP]
+[\fB-jleft\fP|\fB-jright\fP|\fB-jcenter\fP]
+
+[\fInetpbmfile\fP ... | \fB-listfile=\fP{\fIfilename\fP|\fB-\fP}]
+.PP
+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.
+
+.UN description
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.PP
+This program is part of
+.BR "Netpbm" (1)\c
+\&.
+.PP
+\fBpamcat\fP reads one or more Netpbm images as input, concatenates them
+either left to right or top to bottom, and produces a single Netpbm image as
+output.
+.PP
+Options \fB-leftright\fP and \fB-topbottom\fP determine the direction
+ of the concatenation.
+
+.PP
+The images do not have to be the same shape: You can concatenate images
+ of different widths top to bottom and of different heights left to right.
+ You can concatenate images of different depths (numbers of planes). You
+ can concatenate a PBM image with a PPM image. Et cetera.
+.PP
+The format of the output image is the highest of the formats of the
+ input images, in the order PBM, PGM, PPM, PAM.
+.PP
+For PAM output, if all of the input images have the same tuple type
+ (including implied tuple types of PNM images), that is the tuple type of the
+ output. If the inputs differ, but are all visual tuple types, the
+ output&apos;s tuple type is the most primitive that can represent all the
+ input. E.g. if inputs are GRAYSCALE and RGB, the output is RGB, and if the
+ inputs are GRAYSCALE_ALPHA and RGB, the output is RGB_ALPHA. If the inputs
+ differ and are not all visual, the output tuple type is a null string.
+.PP
+When the output is PAM, its depth is the maximum of the depths of the
+ inputs (including implied depths of PNM images), but at least enough to
+ represent the tuple type specified above. In the case of nonvisual PAM
+ output, input images are padded to this output depth with higher numbered
+ planes of all zeroes.
+.PP
+Where the input images are of different widths and you concatenate top
+ to bottom, \fBpamcat\fP generates output as wide as the widest of the
+ inputs and pads the narrower ones. The images can be justified either
+ left, right, or center within this padded field. Use options
+ \fB-jleft\fP, \fB-jright\fP, and \fB-jcenter\fP to control this.
+.PP
+Similarly, where the input images are of different heights and you
+ concatenate left to right, \fBpamcat\fP generates output as tall as the
+ tallest of the inputs and pads the shorter ones. The images can be
+ justified either top, bottom, or center within this padded field. Use
+ options
+ \fB-jtop\fP, \fB-jbottom\fP, and \fB-jcenter\fP to control this.
+.PP
+You can make the padding black or white or let \fBpamcat\fP determine a
+ likely background color, with possibly different colored padding for each
+ input image. Control this with the \fB-black\fP and \fB-white\fP options.
+.PP
+Where the output image contains transparency information (because at least
+ one of the input images does), the padding is opaque. (That is consistent
+ with the result for an output image without transparency information, because
+ such an image is defined to be opaque).
+
+.PP
+The arguments are names of input files. Any one of these, but not more
+than one, may be "-" to indicate Standard Input. If you have no arguments
+(and do not specify \fB-listfile\fP), that means a single input image from
+Standard Input (and that is pointless - the output is the same as the input).
+You can supply the file names in a file instead of as arguments with a
+\fB-listfile\fP option.
+.PP
+Regardless of how you specify the input files, you may not concatenate
+ more files than your system&apos;s limit on the number of concurrently
+ open files by one process. 16 is a typical number for that.
+.PP
+To assemble a regular grid of images, you can use \fBpamundice\fP.
+.PP
+To do the reverse, you might use \fBpamdice\fP to split an image
+up into smaller ones of equal size or \fBpamcut\fP to chop off part
+of an image or extract part of an image.
+.PP
+\fBpnmtile\fP concatenates a single input image to itself repeatedly.
+
+
+.UN options
+.SH OPTIONS
+.PP
+In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
+(most notably \fB-quiet\fP, see
+.UR index.html#commonoptions
+ Common Options
+.UE
+\&), \fBpamcat\fP recognizes the following
+command line options:
+
+.UN direction
+.SS Direction
+
+
+.TP
+\fB-topbottom\fP, \fB-tb\fP
+Combine images vertically, top to bottom.
+
+.TP
+\fB-leftright\fP, \fB-lr\fP
+Combine images horizontally, left to right.
+.sp
+You must specify the direction by specifying one of the above. You cannot
+ specify both.
+
+
+
+.UN justification
+.SS Justification
+
+
+.TP
+\fB-jleft\fP
+
+Left-justify images in a top-bottom concatenation.
+.sp
+You cannot specify this with \fB-jright\fP
+.sp
+This option is invalid in a left-right concatenation.
+
+.TP
+\fB-jright\fP
+
+Right-justify images in a top-bottom concatenation.
+.sp
+You cannot specify this with \fB-jleft\fP
+.sp
+This option is invalid in a left-right concatenation.
+
+.TP
+\fB-jtop\fP
+
+Top-justify images in a left-right concatenation.
+.sp
+You cannot specify this with \fB-jbottom\fP
+.sp
+This option is invalid in a top-bottom concatenation.
+
+.TP
+\fB-jbottom\fP
+
+Bottom-justify images in a left-right concatenation.
+.sp
+You cannot specify this with \fB-jtop\fP
+.sp
+This option is invalid in a top-bottom concatenation.
+
+.TP
+\fB-jcenter\fP
+
+Center images (valid for both left-right and top-bottom concatenations).
+ This is the default.
+
+
+.PP
+By default, \fBpamcat\fP centers the smaller images.
+ \fB-topbottom -jleft\fP would stack the images on top of each other, flush
+ with the left edge. \fB-leftright -jbottom\fP would line up the images
+ left to right with their bottom edges aligned as if sitting on a table.
+
+
+.UN paddingcolor
+.SS Padding Color
+These options specify what color to use to fill in the extra space when
+doing the justification. If neither is specified, \fBpamcat\fP chooses
+whichever color seems to be right for the images, and the color may be
+different for each image.
+
+.TP
+\fB-white\fP
+Make all padding white.
+.sp
+You may not specify this with \fB-black\fP
+.TP
+\fB-black\fP
+Make all padding black.
+.sp
+You may not specify this with \fB-white\fP
+
+
+
+.UN miscellaneousopt
+.SS Miscellaneous
+
+
+.TP
+\fB-listfile=\fP{\fIfilename\fP|\fB-\fP}
+This specifies the name of a file that contains the list of input files.
+ Option value \fB-\fP means the list comes from Standard Input.
+.sp
+The file contains one file name per newline-delimited line in whatever
+ code the system \fBfopen\fP service expects. You may omit the newline
+ on the last line. Empty lines are ignored. There is no mechanism for
+ including comments in the list (so if you want to have a commented list,
+ preprocess it to remove comments before supplying it to \fBpamcat\fP).
+.sp
+You may not specify file names as command line arguments together with
+ \fB-listfile\fP
+.sp
+You may not list more files than than your system&apos;s limit on the
+ number of concurrently open files by one process. 16 is a typical number
+ for that.
+.sp
+This option was new in Netpbm 11.01 (December 2022).
+
+
+
+.UN seealso
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR "pamundice" (1)\c
+\&,
+.BR "pamdice" (1)\c
+\&,
+.BR "pnmtile" (1)\c
+\&,
+.BR "pamcut" (1)\c
+\&,
+.BR "pnm" (1)\c
+\&,
+.BR "pam" (1)\c
+\&
+
+
+.UN history
+.SH HISTORY
+.PP
+\fBpamcat\fP was new in Netpbm 11.00 (September 2022); in earlier versions,
+ \fBpnmcat\fP does most of the same thing.
+.PP
+Primordial Netpbm/Pbmplus contained concatenation tools, but there were two
+ of them: \fBpbmcatlr\fP for left-right concatenation of PBM images
+ and \fBpbmcattb\fP for top-bottom concatenation. When the PGM and PPM
+ formats were added, these programs were combined and extended to handle all
+ three formats, as \fBpnmcat\fP. All of this work was done by Pbmplus
+ author Jef Poskanzer.
+.PP
+In Netpbm 10.44 (September 2008), Akira F Urushibata added special fast
+ processing for raw PBM images, exploiting bitstring processing CPU
+ facilities.
+.PP
+\fBpnmcat\fP was one of the most essential programs in Netpbm, but one
+ thing it could not concatenate was PAM images with transparency. So in
+ Netpbm 11.00 (September 2022), Bryan Henderson wrote \fBpamcat\fP to
+ replace it. It reused the raw PBM fast path code from \fBpnmcat\fP almost
+ verbatim.
+.SH DOCUMENT SOURCE
+This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
+source. The master documentation is at
+.IP
+.B http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamcat.html
+.PP \ No newline at end of file