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<h1 align="center">PPM2TIFF</h1>
<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
<a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br>
<a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>
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<h2>NAME
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">ppm2tiff
− create a <small>TIFF</small> file from <small>PPM,
PGM</small> and <small>PBM</small> image files</p>
<h2>SYNOPSIS
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>ppm2tiff</b>
[ <i>options</i> ] [ <i>input.ppm</i> ]
<i>output.tif</i></p>
<h2>DESCRIPTION
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><i>ppm2tiff</i>
converts a file in the <small>PPM, PGM</small> and
<small>PBM</small> image formats to <small>TIFF.</small> By
default, the <small>TIFF</small> image is created with data
samples packed (<i>PlanarConfiguration</i>=1), compressed
with the Packbits algorithm (<i>Compression</i>=32773), and
with each strip no more than 8 kilobytes. These
characteristics can be overridden, or explicitly specified
with the options described below</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">If the
<small>PPM</small> file contains greyscale data, then the
<i>PhotometricInterpretation</i> tag is set to 1
(min-is-black), otherwise it is set to 2 (RGB).</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">If no
<small>PPM</small> file is specified on the command line,
<i>ppm2tiff</i> will read from the standard input.</p>
<h2>OPTIONS
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<p style="margin-top: 1em"><b>−c</b></p></td>
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<p style="margin-top: 1em">Specify a compression scheme to
use when writing image data: <b>none</b> for no compression,
<b>packbits</b> for PackBits compression (will be used by
default), <b>lzw</b> for Lempel-Ziv & Welch compression,
<b>jpeg</b> for baseline JPEG compression, <b>zip</b> for
Deflate compression, <b>g3</b> for CCITT Group 3 (T.4)
compression, and <b>g4</b> for CCITT Group 4 (T.6)
compression.</p> </td></tr>
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<p><b>−r</b></p></td>
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<p>Write data with a specified number of rows per strip; by
default the number of rows/strip is selected so that each
strip is approximately 8 kilobytes.</p></td></tr>
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<p><b>−R</b></p></td>
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<p>Mark the resultant image to have the specified X and Y
resolution (in dots/inch).</p></td></tr>
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<h2>SEE ALSO
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>tiffinfo</b>(1),
<b>tiffcp</b>(1), <b>tiffmedian</b>(1),
<b>libtiff</b>(3)</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Libtiff library
home page: <b>http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/</b></p>
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