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diff --git a/upstream/mageia-cauldron/man1/ppmdither.1 b/upstream/mageia-cauldron/man1/ppmdither.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..73c8db2f --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/mageia-cauldron/man1/ppmdither.1 @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +\ +.\" 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 "Ppmdither User Manual" 0 "16 December 2009" "netpbm documentation" + +.SH NAME +ppmdither - ordered dither for color images + +.UN synopsis +.SH SYNOPSIS + +\fBppmdither\fP + +[\fB-dim\fP=\fIpower\fP] + +[\fB-red\fP=\fIn\fP] + +[\fB-green\fP=\fIn\fP] + +[\fB-blue\fP=\fIn\fP] + +[\fInetpbmfile\fP] +.PP +All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. +You may use two hyphens instead of one to designate an option. You +may use either white space or an equals sign between an option name +and its value. + + +.UN description +.SH DESCRIPTION +.PP +This program is part of +.BR "Netpbm" (1)\c +\&. +.PP +\fBppmdither\fP reads a Netpbm image as input, and applies dithering +to it to reduce the number of colors used down to the specified number +of shades for each primary. It produces a PPM image as output. +.PP +The default number of shades is 5 red, 9 green, and 5 blue, for a total of +225 colors. To convert the image to a binary rgb format suitable for +primitive color printers, use \fB-red=2 -green=2 -blue=2\fP. +.PP +You can do another kind of dither -- Floyd-Steinberg -- with +\fBpnmquant\fP or \fBpnmremap\fP. + +.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 +\&), \fBppmdither\fP recognizes the following +command line options: + + +.TP +\fB-dim\fP \fIpower\fP + The size of the dithering matrix. The dithering matrix is a +square whose dimension is a power of 2. \fIpower\fP is that power of +2. The default is 4, for a 16 by 16 matrix. + +.TP +\fB-red\fP=\fIn\fP +The number of red shades to be used, including black; minimum of 2. +.sp +Default is 5. + +.TP +\fB-green\fP \fIn\fP +The number of green shades to be used, including black; minimum of 2. +.sp +Default is 9. + +.TP +\fB-blue\fP \fIn\fP +The number of blue shades to be used, including black; minimum of 2. +.sp +Default is 5. + + +.UN seealso +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR "pamditherbw" (1)\c +\&, +.BR "pamdepth" (1)\c +\&, +.BR "pnmquant" (1)\c +\&, +.BR "pnmremap" (1)\c +\&, +.BR "ppm" (1)\c +\& + +.UN author +.SH AUTHOR + +Copyright (C) 1991 by Christos Zoulas. +.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/ppmdither.html +.PP
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