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

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