ddbugtopbm

   Updated: 21st August, 2002
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NAME

   ddbugtopbm - convert Diddle or DiddleBug sketches to PBM files

SYNOPSIS

   ddbugtopbm

EXAMPLES

ddbugtopbm as this	program's
input is
   usually  called  DiddleBugDB.pdb.  Or  if you use the original
Diddle, it has
   two separate DBs - DiddleDB.pdb, containing unnamed	'scratch'
sketches, and
   DiddleIDB.pdb, containing the saved (and named) sketches which
are listed by
   its 'index' option. You can feed this  program  any	of  these
three on standard
   input.

USING THE PROGRAM

   I  recommend	 you not run ddbugtopbm from your Palm backup di-
rectory, i.e.
   don't run it from the directory the DB will	normally  be  in.
Instead, run it
   from	 some other directory (perhaps you could make a directory
purely to hold
   the PBM files, just to keep things simple) and use an absolute
or relative
   path to the DB.

   The	filenames used for the output PBMs are based on the names
given to each
   sketch; if you have an unnamed sketch, it's given a name along
the lines of
   sketch-0123.pbm.

   While  the named sketches will overwrite any existing PBM file
with the same
   name, the unnamed ones won't - they'll just try using  another
filename. (I
   think this is probably the right approach, as you can't really
tell the
   unnamed sketches apart.)

BUGS

   The	DiddleBug DB reader is only known to work with	DBs  from
DiddleBug
   version  2.50.  But it should probably work on later versions,
and I think
   it'll work on DBs from version 2.15 as well.

   It might fall over if fed an empty database,	 and  doesn't  do
much (if any)
   checking of the input.

AUTHOR

   Russell Marks (rus@svgalib.org).

   Mitch  Blevins's decompression code is directly from DiddleBug
itself, which
   like ddbugtopbm is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

SEE ALSO

   palmtopnm, pbm

   Jens-Chr. Heyer's 'didcon' script does something similar.

HISTORY

   ddbugtopbm	was   new  in  Netpbm 10.18 (August 2003). It was
written and
   independently distributed in August 2002.
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Table Of Contents

     * NAME
     * SYNOPSIS
     * EXAMPLES
     * DESCRIPTION
     * USING THE PROGRAM
     * BUGS
     * AUTHOR
     * SEE ALSO

UNIX/Linux commands referenced on this page:

1. convert
2. as
3. make
4. palmtopnm
5. script