NAME

       pamtosrf - convert a sequence of Netpbm images to a SRF image file

SYNOPSIS

       pamtosrf [-verbose] [netpbmfile]

DESCRIPTION

       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       pamtosrf  reads  a Netpbm image stream as input and produces a an SRF image file as output.  I don't know
       exactly what SRF is, but on popular use of it is in Garmin vehicle information files, which  tell  a  GPS
       receiver how to depict a vehicle on its display.

       An  SRF  file  can  contain  multiple images; each image in a multi-image Netpbm input stream becomes one
       image in the SRF.

       pamtosrf does not care how many images there are or what their dimensions or  content  are.   However,  a
       Garmin  vehicle  information  file  has  specific  requirements,  so  if you don't make your Netpbm input
       conform, neither will your SRF output.  For such a file, you should have two  image:  the  first  for  3D
       oblique views of the vehicle and the second for overhead views.  Each image is a horizontal concatenation
       of  36  square  images,  each  rotated 10 degrees from the previous, thereby covering the full 360 degree
       circle.  You could create this concatenation with pamcat -lr and you could create  the  individual  views
       with pnmrotate.

       One  way  to  use  pamtosrf  is  to get an SRF file, convert it to PAM with srftopam, manipulate it, then
       convert it back with pamtosrf.

       netpbmfile is the input stream, which defaults to Standard Input.  Output is always on Standard Output.

OPTIONS

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

       -verbose
              Issue informational messages about the input and the conversion process.

SEE ALSO

       •

              srftopam(1)

       •

              pamcat(1)

       •

              pam(1)

HISTORY

       srftopam was new in Netpbm 10.55 (June 2011).

       It was contributed by Mike Frysinger.

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/pamtosrf.html

netpbm documentation                               27 May 2011                           Pamtosrf User Manual(1)