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.TH "Pdbimgtopam User Manual" 0 "25 September 2010" "netpbm documentation"

.SH NAME
pdbimgtopam - convert a Palm Pilot Image Viewer PDB Image to a PAM image

.UN synopsis
.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBpdbimgtopam\fP

[\fB-notefile=\fP\fIfilename\fP]
[\fB-verbose\fP]

[\fIpdbimgfile\fP]

.UN description
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
This program is part of
.BR "Netpbm" (1)\c
\&.
.PP
\fBpdbimgtopam\fP reads a Palm Pilot Image Viewer image (and Image
record in a PDB file) as input, from Standard Input or
\fIpalmfile\fP, and produces a PAM image as output.
.PP
If the Pilot image is monochrome, the PAM output has maxval 1.
Otherwise, it has maxval 255.  Note that Pilot images are always
monochrome.  The PAM image has tuple type GRAYSCALE.


.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
\&), \fBpdbimgtopam\fP recognizes the following
command line options:


.TP
\fB-verbose\fP
Display various interesting information about the input file and process.

.TP
\fB-notefile=\fP\fIfilename\fP
Write the image note (if any) to the specified file.
.sp
If you don't specify this, \fBpdbimgtopam\fP ignores any image note.



.UN seealso
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR "pamtopdbimg" (1)\c
\&,
.BR "pnmtopalm" (1)\c
\&,
.BR "pam" (1)\c
\&

.UN history
.SH HISTORY
.PP
\fBpdbimgtopam\fP was new in Netpbm 10.52 (September 2010).
It was modelled after Eric A. Howe's \fBimgvtopbm\fP package, which
dates back to September 1997.
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.IP
.B http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pdbimgtopam.html
.PP