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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
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.TH "Pbmtomda User Manual" 0 "03 June 1999" "netpbm documentation"

.SH NAME

pbmtomda - convert a PBM image to a Microdesign .mda

.UN synopsis
.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBpbmtomda\fP

[\fB-d\fP]
[\fB-i\fP]
[\fB--\fP]

[\fIpbmfile\fP]

.UN description
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
This program is part of
.BR "Netpbm" (1)\c
\&.
.PP
\fBpbmtomda\fP reads a PBM image as input and
produces a MicroDesign 2 area file (.MDA) as output.
.PP
If you do not specify \fIpbmfile\fP, \fBpbmtomda\fP uses Standard Input.

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


.TP
\fB-d\fP
Halve the height of the output file, to compensate for the aspect 
ratio used in MicroDesign files.
.TP
\fB-i\fP
Invert the colors used.
.TP
\fB--\fP
End of options (use this if the filename starts with "-")


.UN limitations
.SH LIMITATIONS

There's no way to produce files in MicroDesign 3 format. MD3 itself and 
.BR "mdatopbm" (1)\c
\& can read files in either format.

.UN seealso
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR "mdatopbm" (1)\c
\&,
.BR "pbm" (1)\c
\&

.UN author
.SH AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1999 John Elliott <\fIjce@seasip.demon.co.uk\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/pbmtomda.html
.PP