NAME

       macptopbm - convert a MacPaint file into a PBM image

SYNOPSIS

       macptopbm [-extraskip N] [macpfile]

DESCRIPTION

       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       macptopbmreads a MacPaint file as input and produces a PBM image as output.

OPTIONS

       In  addition  to  the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see  Common
       Options ), macptopbm recognizes the following command line option:

       You can abbreviate any option to its shortest unique prefix.

       -extraskip
              This option is to get around a problem with some methods of transferring files from the Mac  world
              to  the  Unix  world.   Most of these methods leave the Mac files alone, but a few of them add the
              "finderinfo" data onto the front of the Unix file.  This means an extra 128  bytes  to  skip  over
              when  reading  the file.  The symptom to watch for is that the resulting PBM file looks shifted to
              one side.  If you get this, try -extraskip 128, and if that still doesn't look right  try  another
              value.

SEE ALSO

       picttoppm(1), pbmtomacp(1), pbm(1)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer.

       The MacPaint-reading code is copyright (c) 1987 by Patrick J. Naughton (naughton@wind.sun.com).

DOCUMENT SOURCE

       This  manual  page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.  The master documentation
       is at

              http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/macptopbm.html

netpbm documentation                              29 March 1989                         Macptopbm User Manual(1)