NAME

       ppmtoppm - copy PPM image

SYNOPSIS

       ppmtoppm

DESCRIPTION

       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       ppmtoppm  simply copies a PPM image from Standard Input to Standard Output.  This may seem an unnecessary
       duplication of cat, but remember that a PPM program can read a PBM or PGM image, and the  right  kind  of
       PAM,  as if it were PPM.  So ppmtoppm can read either a PBM, PGM, or PPM image and produce a PPM image as
       output.

       Even that is of limited usefulness because of the fact that almost any program to which  you  would  feed
       the  resulting PPM image could also just take the original image directly.  However, sometimes you really
       need a true PPM image.

       When you know you have a PGM image and want a PPM image, pgmtoppm is  a  more  general  way  to  do  that
       conversion.  When you know you have a PBM image, use that and pbmtopgm.

OPTIONS

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

SEE ALSO

       pgmtopgm(1), pamtopam(1), pamtopnm(1), pgmtoppm(1), pbmtopgm(1), pbm(1), pgm(1), ppm(1)

HISTORY

       This program was added to Netpbm in Release 10.9 (September 2002).

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/ppmtoppm.html

netpbm documentation                              February 2007                          Ppmtoppm User Manual(1)