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9<h1 align=center>PPM2TIFF</h1>
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25ppm2tiff - create a <small>TIFF</small> file from a <small>PPM</small> image file</td></table>
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27<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
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33<b>ppm2tiff</b> [ <i>options</i> ] [ <i>input.ppm</i> ]
34<i>output.tif</i></td></table>
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42<i>ppm2tiff</i> converts a file in the <small>PPM</small>
43image format to <small>TIFF.</small> By default, the
44<small>TIFF</small> image is created with data samples
45packed (<i>PlanarConfiguration</i>=1), compressed with the
46Lempel-Ziv &amp; Welch algorithm (<i>Compression</i>=5), and
47with each strip no more than 8 kilobytes. These
48characteristics can be overriden, or explicitly specified
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55If the <small>PPM</small> file contains greyscale data, then
56the <i>PhotometricInterpretation</i> tag is set to 1
57(min-is-black), otherwise it is set to 2 (RGB).</td></table>
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63If no <small>PPM</small> file is specified on the command
64line, <i>ppm2tiff</i> will read from the standard
65input.</td></table>
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67<h2>OPTIONS</h2>
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73<b>-c</b></td></table>
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79Specify a compression scheme to use when writing image data:
80<b>-c none</b> for no compression, <b>-c packbits</b> for
81the PackBits compression algorithm (the default), <b>-c
82jpeg</b> for the baseline JPEG compression algorithm, <b>-c
83zip</b> for the Deflate compression algorithm, and <b>-c
84lzw</b> for Lempel-Ziv &amp; Welch compression.</td></table>
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90<b>-r</b></td></table>
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96Write data with a specified number of rows per strip; by
97default the number of rows/strip is selected so that each
98strip is approximately 8 kilobytes.</td></table>
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104<b>-R</b></td></table>
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110Mark the resultant image to have the specified X and Y
111resolution (in dots/inch).</td></table>
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113<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
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119<i>tiffinfo</i>(1), <i>tiffcp</i>(1), <i>tiffmedian</i>(1),
120<i>libtiff</i>(3)</td></table>
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