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.TH "Pgmtosbig User Manual" 0 "18 January 2015" "netpbm documentation"

.SH NAME

pgmtosbig - convert PGM image to SBIG format

.UN synopsis
.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBpgmtosbig\fP

[\fIpgmfile\fP]

.UN description
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
This program is part of
.BR "Netpbm" (1)\c
\&.
.PP
\fBpgmtosbig\fP reads a PGM image as input and produces a
Santa Barbara Instrument Group SBIG Type 3 image as output.
.PP
Note that this format is distinct from the SBIG ST-4 format.


.IP \(bu
The image is uncompressed
.IP \(bu
The image says it is from a "ST-6" camera
.IP \(bu
The image header has these lines:

.IP \(bu
camera type
.IP \(bu
height
.IP \(bu
width
.IP \(bu
saturation level  




.UN seealso
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR "sbigtopgm" (1)\c
\&,
.BR "pgm" (5)\c
\&

.UN history
.SH HISTORY
.PP
\fBpgmtosbig\fP was new in Netpbm 10.70, and was intended primarily as a
test tool for \fBsbigtopgm\fP.
.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/pgmtosbig.html
.PP