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.TH "Pgmtosbig User Manual" 1 "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 options
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
There are no command line options defined specifically
for \fBpgmtosbig\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 "sbigtopgm" (1)\c
\&,
.BR "pgm" (1)\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