NAME

       pgmtosbig - convert PGM image to SBIG format

SYNOPSIS

       pgmtosbig

       [pgmfile]

DESCRIPTION

       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       pgmtosbig  reads  a PGM image as input and produces a Santa Barbara Instrument Group SBIG Type 3 image as
       output.

       Note that this format is distinct from the SBIG ST-4 format.

       •      The image is uncompressed

       •      The image says it is from a "ST-6" camera

       •      The image header has these lines:

       •      camera type

       •      height

       •      width

       •      saturation level

OPTIONS

       There are no command line options defined specifically for  pgmtosbig,  but  it  recognizes  the  options
       common to all programs based on libnetpbm (See  Common Options .)

SEE ALSO

       sbigtopgm(1), pgm(1)

HISTORY

       pgmtosbig was new in Netpbm 10.70, and was intended primarily as a test tool for sbigtopgm.

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/pgmtosbig.html

netpbm documentation                             18 January 2015                        Pgmtosbig User Manual(1)