ximtoppm

   Updated: April 2, 2000
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NAME

   ximtoppm - convert an Xim file to a PPM image

SYNOPSIS

   ximtoppm [--alphaout={alpha-filename,-}] [ximfile]

   You can abbreviate any option to its shortest unique prefix.

DESCRIPTION

   This program is part of Netpbm.

   ximptoppm  reads an Xim file as input and produces a PPM image
as output. The
   Xim toolkit is included in the contrib tree of the X.V11R4 re-
lease.

OPTIONS

   --alphaout=alpha-filename
	  ximtoppm  creates a PGM file containing the alpha chan-
nel values in
	  the input image. If the input image doesn't contain  an
alpha channel,
	  the alpha-filename file contains all zero (transparent)
alpha values.
	  If you don't specify --alphaout, ximtoppm does not gen-
erate an alpha
	  file, and if the input image has an alpha channel, xim-
toppm simply
	  discards it.
	  If you specify - as the filename, ximtoppm  writes  the
alpha output to
	  Standard Output and discards the image.
	  Actually,  an Xim image can contain an arbitrary fourth
channel -- it
	  need not be an Alpha	channel.  ximtoppm  extracts  any
fourth channel it
	  finds as described above; it doesn't matter if it is an
alpha channel
	  or not.
	  See pamcomp for one way to use the alpha output file.



SEE ALSO

   pamcomp, ppm

AUTHOR

   Copyright (C) 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.
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     * NAME
     * SYNOPSIS
     * DESCRIPTION
     * OPTIONS
     * SEE ALSO
     * AUTHOR

UNIX/Linux commands referenced on this page:

1. convert
2. file
3. as
4. pamcomp