NAME

       psidtopgm - convert PostScript "image" data to a PGM image

SYNOPSIS

       psidtopgm width height bits/sample [imagedata]

DESCRIPTION

       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       psidtopgm reads the "image" data from a PostScript file as input and produces a PGM image as output.

       This program is obsoleted by pstopnm.

       What follows was written before pstopnm  existed.

       This is a very simple and limited program, and is here only because so many people have asked for it.  To
       use  it  you  have to manually extract the readhexstring data portion from your PostScript file, and then
       give the width, height, and bits/sample on the command line.  Before you  attempt  this,  you  should  at
       least read the description of the "image" operator in the PostScript Language Reference Manual.

       It  would  probably not be too hard to write a script that uses this filter to read a specific variety of
       PostScript image, but the variation is too great to make a general-purpose reader.   Unless,  of  course,
       you want to write a full-fledged PostScript interpreter...

OPTIONS

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

SEE ALSO

       pnmtops(1), pgm(1)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.

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/psidtopgm.html

netpbm documentation                              02 August 89                          Psidtopgm User Manual(1)