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diff --git a/upstream/debian-unstable/man1/fstopgm.1 b/upstream/debian-unstable/man1/fstopgm.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5e2f1afd --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/debian-unstable/man1/fstopgm.1 @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +\ +.\" 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 "Fstopgm User Manual" 1 "06 April 89" "netpbm documentation" + +.SH NAME +fstopgm - convert a Usenix FaceSaver(tm) file into a PGM image + + +.UN synopsis +.SH SYNOPSIS + +\fBfstopgm\fP +[\fIfsfile\fP] + +.UN description +.SH DESCRIPTION +.PP +This program is part of +.BR "Netpbm" (1)\c +\&. +.PP +\fBfstopgm\fP reads a Usenix FaceSaver(tm) file as input and +produces a PGM image as output. +.PP +FaceSaver(tm) files sometimes have rectangular pixels. While +\fBfstopgm\fP won't re-scale them into square pixels for you, it will +give you the precise \fBpamscale\fP command that will do the job. +Because of this, reading a FaceSaver(tm) image is a two-step process. +First you do: + +.nf + fstopgm > /dev/null + +.fi + +This will tell you whether you need to use \fBpamscale.\fP + +Then use one of the following pipelines: +.nf + fstopgm | pnmnorm + fstopgm | pamscale -whatever | pnmnorm + +.fi + +To go to PBM, you want something more like one of these: +.nf + fstopgm | pamenlarge 3 | pnmnorm | pamditherbw + fstopgm | pamenlarge 3 | pamscale <whatever> | pnmnorm | pamditherbw + +.fi + +You want to enlarge when going to a bitmap because otherwise you lose +information; but enlarging by more than 3 does not look good. +.PP +FaceSaver is a registered trademark of Metron Computerware Ltd. of +Oakland, CA. + + +.UN options +.SH OPTIONS +.PP +There are no command line options defined specifically +for \fBfstopgm\fP, but it recognizes the options common to all +programs based on libnetpbm (See +.UR index.html#commonoptions + Common Options +.UE +\&.) + +.UN seealso +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR "pgmtofs" (1)\c +\&, +.BR "pgm" (1)\c +\&, +.BR "pnmnorm" (1)\c +\&, +.BR "pamenlarge" (1)\c +\&, +.BR "pamscale" (1)\c +\&, +.BR "pamditherbw" (1)\c +\& + + +.UN author +.SH AUTHOR + +Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer. +.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/fstopgm.html +.PP
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