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SYNOPSISpnmtopalm
[-verbose]
[-depth=N]
[-maxdepth=N]
[-colormap]
[-transparent=color]
[-density=N]
[-offset]
[-withdummy] [-scanline-compression | -rle-compression | -packbits-com‐
pression]
[pnmfile]
Minimum unique abbreviation of option is acceptable. You may use dou‐
ble hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options. You may use
white space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from
its value.
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
pnmtopalm reads a PNM image as input, from Standard Input or pnmfile
and produces a Palm Bitmap as output.
Palm Bitmap files are either grayscale files 1, 2, or 4 bits wide, or
color files 8 bits wide, so pnmtopalm automatically scales colors to
have an appropriate maxval, unless you specify a depth or max depth.
Input files must have an appropriate number and set of colors for the
selected output constraints.
This often means that you should run the PNM image through pnmquant or
pnmremap before you pass it to pnmtopalm. Netpbm comes with several
colormap files you can use with pnmremap for this purpose. They are
palmgray2.map (4 shades of gray for a depth of 2), palmgray4.map (16
shades of gray for a depth of 4), and palmcolor8.map (232 colors in
default Palm colormap). In a standard Netpbm installation, these are
in the Netpbm data directory, and you can find the Netpbm data direc‐
tory with a netpbm-config --datadir shell command.
Example:
pnmremap myimage.ppm -mapfile=$(netpbm-config --datadir)/palmgray2.map | pnmtopalm -depth=2 >myimage.palm
Palm Bitmap Version
pnmtopalm generates a Version 0, 1, 2, or 3 Palm Bitmap. It generates
the oldest (lowest) version it can for the given image and the options
you specify.
· If you specify a density (-density option) higher than 'low,'
the version is at least 3.
· If you specify transparency (-transparent option) or any com‐
pression, the version is at least 2.
· If you specify a custom colormap (-colormap option), the verison
is at least 1.
· If the image has more than one bit per pixel, the version is at
least 1. The image has more than one bit per pixel if you spec‐
ify it with -depth or if you let it default and the image has
more than two colors (or shades of gray).
All releases of Palm OS can read a Version 0 bitmap. Palm OS 3.0 and
later can read a Version 1 bitmap. Palm OS 3.5 and later can read a
Version 2 bitmap. To read a Version 3 bitmap, you need Palm OS Garnet
or a handheld running the High Density Display Feature Set.
OPTIONS-verbose
Display the format of the output file.
-depth=N
Produce a file of depth N, where N must be either 1, 2, 4, 8, or
16. Because the default Palm 8-bit colormap is not grayscale,
if the input is a grayscale or monochrome image, the output will
never be more than 4 bits deep, regardless of the specified
depth. Note that 8-bit color works only in PalmOS 3.5 (and
higher), and 16-bit direct color works only in PalmOS 4.0 (and
higher). However, the 16-bit direct color format is also com‐
patible with the various PalmOS 3.x versions used in the Hand‐
spring Visor, so these images may also work in that device.
-maxdepth=N
Produce a file of minimal depth, but in any case less than N
bits wide. If you specify 16-bit, the output will always be
16-bit direct color.
-offset
Set the nextDepthOffset field in the palm file header to indi‐
cate the end of the file (and pad the end of the file to 4
bytes, since nextDepthOffset can point only to 4 byte bound‐
aries).
A palm image file can contain multiple renditions of the same
image, with different color depths, so a viewer can choose one
appropriate for the display. The nextDepthOffset field tells
where in the stream the next rendition begins.
pnmtopalm creates a file that contains only one image, but you
can separately concatenate multiple one-image files to create a
multi-image file. If you do that, you'll need to use -offset so
that the resulting concatenation is a correct stream.
By default (if you don't specify -offset), pnmtopalm generates a
nextDepthOffset field that says there is no following image (and
does not add any padding after the image).
Version 3 Palm Bitmaps actually have a nextBitmapOffset field
instead of the nextDepthOffset. The foregoing applies to which‐
ever is relevant.
The -offset option was new in Netpbm 10.26 (January 2005).
Before that, pnmtopalm always set the nextDepthOffset field to
'none.'
Before Netpbm 10.27 (March 2005), you cannot use -offset if you
create a compressed raster (because pnmtopalm isn't smart enough
to be able to know the size of the image at the time it writes
the header). You also cannot use it with 16 bit color depth or
with the -colormap option, for much the same reason.
-withdummy
This option tells pnmtopalm to put in the stream, after after
the image, a dummy image header to introduce subsequent high
density images.
This dummy image header is a special sequence specified in Palm
Bitmap specifications. It looks to an older Palm Bitmap inter‐
preter like an invalid image header, so such an intepreter will
stop reading the stream there. But a new Palm Bitmap inter‐
preter recognizes it for what it is (just something to choke an
old interpreter) and skips over it. Presumably, you will add to
the stream after this high density images which would confuse an
older interpreter.
If you specify -withdummy, you must also specify -offset, since
it doesn't make any sense otherwise.
-withdummy was new in Netpbm 10.27 (March 2005).
-colormap
Build a custom colormap and include it in the output file. This
is not recommended by Palm, for efficiency reasons. Otherwise,
pnmtopalm uses the default Palm colormap for color output.
-transparent=color
Marks one particular color as fully transparent. The format to
specify the color is either (when for example orange)
'1.0,0.5,0.0', where the values are floats between zero and one,
or with the syntax '#RGB', '#RRGGBB' or '#RRRRGGGGBBBB' where R,
G and B are hexadecimal numbers. Transparency works only on
Palm OS 3.5 and higher.
-scanline-compression
Specifies that the output Palm bitmap will use the Palm scanline
compression scheme. Scanline compression works only in Palm OS
2.0 and higher.
-rle-compression
Specifies that the output Palm bitmap will use the Palm RLE com‐
pression scheme. RLE compression works only with Palm OS 3.5
and higher.
-packbits-compression
Specifies that the output Palm bitmap will use the Palm packbits
compression scheme. Packbits compression works only with Palm
OS 4.0 and higher.
This option was new in Netpbm 10.27 (March 2005).
-density=N
This specifies the Palm Bitmap density. The density is a number
that is proportional to the resolution the image should have
when displayed. The proportionality factor is up to whatever is
doing the displaying, but it's helpful to think of these numbers
as being pixels per inch. The allowable values are:
· 72
· 108
· 144
· 216
· 288
This option was new in Netpbm 10.27 (March 2005). Earlier
Netpbm could not generate Version 3 Palm Bitmaps, so there was
no such thing as density.
SEE ALSOpalmtopnm(1), pnmquant(1), pnmremap(1), pnm(1), PalmOS Reference (1),
PalmOS Companion
⟨http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/docs/palmos/PalmOSCompanion/UserInterface.html#1010236⟩
.
NOTES
Palm Bitmaps may contains multiple renditions of the same bitmap, in
different depths. To construct an N-multiple-rendition Palm Bitmap
with pnmtopalm, first construct renditions 1 through N-1 using the
-offset option, then construct the Nth image without the -offset
option. Then concatenate the individual renditions together in a sin‐
gle file using cat.
If you will include both high density and low density renditions, put
the high density images last and when you create the last of the low
density images, use the -withdummy option.
You cannot generate an alpha mask if the Palm pixmap has a transparent
color. However, you can still do this with ppmcolormask with a Netpbm
pipe similar to:
palmtopnm pixmap.palm | ppmcolormask `palmtopnm -transparent
pixmap.palm`
AUTHORS
This program was originally written as ppmtoTbmp.c, by Ian Goldberg and
George Caswell. It was completely re-written by Bill Janssen to add
color, compression, and transparency function. Copyright 1995-2001 by
Ian Goldberg, George Caswell, and Bill Janssen.
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