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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 "Ppmtoterm User Manual" 0 "17 June 2017" "netpbm documentation"
+
+.SH NAME
+
+ppmtoterm - convert a PPM image to a ANSI ISO 6429 ascii image
+
+.UN synopsis
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+
+\fBppmtoterm\fP
+
+[\fIppmfile\fP]
+.PP
+All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.
+You may use two hyphens instead of one. You may separate an option
+name and its value with white space instead of an equals sign.
+
+.UN description
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.PP
+This program is part of
+.BR "Netpbm" (1)\c
+\&.
+.PP
+This program tries to produce an accurate representation of a PPM
+image on an terminal that implements the ANSI ISO 6429 standard. It
+approximates colors, finding the minimum Cartesian distance between the
+input RGB vectors and the ones in the generated palette. As the
+available color palette is somewhat restricted, you get the best
+results when the colors in the original image are few and the RGB
+intensities are close to zero, half of maximum, and maximum.
+.PP
+You can usually get good results with cartoons or images with
+plain colors (no gradients). With photos, results can vary, but are
+usually not very accurate.
+.PP
+The output image has one line for each row and one character for each
+column of the input image. E.g. an 80 pixel by 25 pixel PPM image would
+fill up an 80x25 terminal screen. Use \fBpamscale\fP or \fBpamcut\fP
+to make your image fit properly on your screen.
+.PP
+Furthermore, use \fBpamscale\fP to recover the proper aspect ratio,
+because a character on a terminal screen is rarely square. Typically, a
+character is twice has high as it is wide, so in order for a 20x20 image to
+appear square on your terminal, as it should, you'll want to squash it
+vertically or stretch it horizontally by a factor of two (resulting int 10x20
+characters are 20x40 characters).
+.PP
+The image starts at the current cursor position on the terminal
+screen. Each successive row starts at Column 0 on the screen. If you want
+to shift the image up or down, for example to center it, use
+\fBpnmpad\fP on the input.
+.PP
+This program was born with the objective of displaying nice color
+images on the Linux console, e.g. a proper logo at Linux boot.
+.PP
+\fBppmtoascii\fP does a similar things, but combines 2 or 8 pixels into
+one character, where the character roughly represents those particular pixels,
+whereas \fBppmtoterm\fP displays each character of the image as a single
+pixel.
+.PP
+\fBpbmto4425\fP does a similar thing for black and white images, using
+line drawing characters, on some terminals.
+
+.UN options
+.SH OPTIONS
+.PP
+There are no command line options defined specifically
+for \fBppmtoterm\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 "pamscale" (1)\c
+\&,
+.BR "pamcut" (1)\c
+\&,
+.BR "ppmtoascii" (1)\c
+\&,
+.BR "pbmtoascii" (1)\c
+\&,
+.BR "pbmto4425" (1)\c
+\&,
+.BR "ppm" (1)\c
+\&
+
+
+.UN author
+.SH AUTHOR
+
+Copyright (C) 2002 by Ero Carrera.
+
+
+.UN history
+.SH HISTORY
+.PP
+This program was new in Netpbm 10.9 (August 2002).
+.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/ppmtoterm.html
+.PP \ No newline at end of file