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(5)

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