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.TH "Pamcat User Manual" 0 "30 November 2022" "netpbm documentation"
.SH NAME
pamcat - concatenate Netpbm images
.UN synopsis
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBpamcat\fP
{\fB-leftright\fP | \fB-lr\fP | \fB-topbottom\fP | \fB-tb\fP}
[\fB-white\fP|\fB-black\fP]
[\fB-jtop\fP|\fB-jbottom\fP|\fB-jcenter\fP]
[\fB-jleft\fP|\fB-jright\fP|\fB-jcenter\fP]
[\fInetpbmfile\fP ... | \fB-listfile=\fP{\fIfilename\fP|\fB-\fP}]
.PP
Minimum unique abbreviation of option is acceptable. You may use
double hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options. You may
use white space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name
from its value.
.UN description
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
This program is part of
.BR "Netpbm" (1)\c
\&.
.PP
\fBpamcat\fP reads one or more Netpbm images as input, concatenates them
either left to right or top to bottom, and produces a single Netpbm image as
output.
.PP
Options \fB-leftright\fP and \fB-topbottom\fP determine the direction
of the concatenation.
.PP
The images do not have to be the same shape: You can concatenate images
of different widths top to bottom and of different heights left to right.
You can concatenate images of different depths (numbers of planes). You
can concatenate a PBM image with a PPM image. Et cetera.
.PP
The format of the output image is the highest of the formats of the
input images, in the order PBM, PGM, PPM, PAM.
.PP
For PAM output, if all of the input images have the same tuple type
(including implied tuple types of PNM images), that is the tuple type of the
output. If the inputs differ, but are all visual tuple types, the
output's tuple type is the most primitive that can represent all the
input. E.g. if inputs are GRAYSCALE and RGB, the output is RGB, and if the
inputs are GRAYSCALE_ALPHA and RGB, the output is RGB_ALPHA. If the inputs
differ and are not all visual, the output tuple type is a null string.
.PP
When the output is PAM, its depth is the maximum of the depths of the
inputs (including implied depths of PNM images), but at least enough to
represent the tuple type specified above. In the case of nonvisual PAM
output, input images are padded to this output depth with higher numbered
planes of all zeroes.
.PP
Where the input images are of different widths and you concatenate top
to bottom, \fBpamcat\fP generates output as wide as the widest of the
inputs and pads the narrower ones. The images can be justified either
left, right, or center within this padded field. Use options
\fB-jleft\fP, \fB-jright\fP, and \fB-jcenter\fP to control this.
.PP
Similarly, where the input images are of different heights and you
concatenate left to right, \fBpamcat\fP generates output as tall as the
tallest of the inputs and pads the shorter ones. The images can be
justified either top, bottom, or center within this padded field. Use
options
\fB-jtop\fP, \fB-jbottom\fP, and \fB-jcenter\fP to control this.
.PP
You can make the padding black or white or let \fBpamcat\fP determine a
likely background color, with possibly different colored padding for each
input image. Control this with the \fB-black\fP and \fB-white\fP options.
.PP
Where the output image contains transparency information (because at least
one of the input images does), the padding is opaque. (That is consistent
with the result for an output image without transparency information, because
such an image is defined to be opaque).
.PP
The arguments are names of input files. Any one of these, but not more
than one, may be "-" to indicate Standard Input. If you have no arguments
(and do not specify \fB-listfile\fP), that means a single input image from
Standard Input (and that is pointless - the output is the same as the input).
You can supply the file names in a file instead of as arguments with a
\fB-listfile\fP option.
.PP
Regardless of how you specify the input files, you may not concatenate
more files than your system's limit on the number of concurrently
open files by one process. 16 is a typical number for that.
.PP
To assemble a regular grid of images, you can use \fBpamundice\fP.
.PP
To do the reverse, you might use \fBpamdice\fP to split an image
up into smaller ones of equal size or \fBpamcut\fP to chop off part
of an image or extract part of an image.
.PP
\fBpnmtile\fP concatenates a single input image to itself repeatedly.
.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
\&), \fBpamcat\fP recognizes the following
command line options:
.UN direction
.SS Direction
.TP
\fB-topbottom\fP, \fB-tb\fP
Combine images vertically, top to bottom.
.TP
\fB-leftright\fP, \fB-lr\fP
Combine images horizontally, left to right.
.sp
You must specify the direction by specifying one of the above. You cannot
specify both.
.UN justification
.SS Justification
.TP
\fB-jleft\fP
Left-justify images in a top-bottom concatenation.
.sp
You cannot specify this with \fB-jright\fP
.sp
This option is invalid in a left-right concatenation.
.TP
\fB-jright\fP
Right-justify images in a top-bottom concatenation.
.sp
You cannot specify this with \fB-jleft\fP
.sp
This option is invalid in a left-right concatenation.
.TP
\fB-jtop\fP
Top-justify images in a left-right concatenation.
.sp
You cannot specify this with \fB-jbottom\fP
.sp
This option is invalid in a top-bottom concatenation.
.TP
\fB-jbottom\fP
Bottom-justify images in a left-right concatenation.
.sp
You cannot specify this with \fB-jtop\fP
.sp
This option is invalid in a top-bottom concatenation.
.TP
\fB-jcenter\fP
Center images (valid for both left-right and top-bottom concatenations).
This is the default.
.PP
By default, \fBpamcat\fP centers the smaller images.
\fB-topbottom -jleft\fP would stack the images on top of each other, flush
with the left edge. \fB-leftright -jbottom\fP would line up the images
left to right with their bottom edges aligned as if sitting on a table.
.UN paddingcolor
.SS Padding Color
These options specify what color to use to fill in the extra space when
doing the justification. If neither is specified, \fBpamcat\fP chooses
whichever color seems to be right for the images, and the color may be
different for each image.
.TP
\fB-white\fP
Make all padding white.
.sp
You may not specify this with \fB-black\fP
.TP
\fB-black\fP
Make all padding black.
.sp
You may not specify this with \fB-white\fP
.UN miscellaneousopt
.SS Miscellaneous
.TP
\fB-listfile=\fP{\fIfilename\fP|\fB-\fP}
This specifies the name of a file that contains the list of input files.
Option value \fB-\fP means the list comes from Standard Input.
.sp
The file contains one file name per newline-delimited line in whatever
code the system \fBfopen\fP service expects. You may omit the newline
on the last line. Empty lines are ignored. There is no mechanism for
including comments in the list (so if you want to have a commented list,
preprocess it to remove comments before supplying it to \fBpamcat\fP).
.sp
You may not specify file names as command line arguments together with
\fB-listfile\fP
.sp
You may not list more files than than your system's limit on the
number of concurrently open files by one process. 16 is a typical number
for that.
.sp
This option was new in Netpbm 11.01 (December 2022).
.UN seealso
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR "pamundice" (1)\c
\&,
.BR "pamdice" (1)\c
\&,
.BR "pnmtile" (1)\c
\&,
.BR "pamcut" (1)\c
\&,
.BR "pnm" (1)\c
\&,
.BR "pam" (1)\c
\&
.UN history
.SH HISTORY
.PP
\fBpamcat\fP was new in Netpbm 11.00 (September 2022); in earlier versions,
\fBpnmcat\fP does most of the same thing.
.PP
Primordial Netpbm/Pbmplus contained concatenation tools, but there were two
of them: \fBpbmcatlr\fP for left-right concatenation of PBM images
and \fBpbmcattb\fP for top-bottom concatenation. When the PGM and PPM
formats were added, these programs were combined and extended to handle all
three formats, as \fBpnmcat\fP. All of this work was done by Pbmplus
author Jef Poskanzer.
.PP
In Netpbm 10.44 (September 2008), Akira F Urushibata added special fast
processing for raw PBM images, exploiting bitstring processing CPU
facilities.
.PP
\fBpnmcat\fP was one of the most essential programs in Netpbm, but one
thing it could not concatenate was PAM images with transparency. So in
Netpbm 11.00 (September 2022), Bryan Henderson wrote \fBpamcat\fP to
replace it. It reused the raw PBM fast path code from \fBpnmcat\fP almost
verbatim.
.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/pamcat.html
.PP
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