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.TH "Pcdovtoppm User Manual" 0 "26 March 2025" "netpbm documentation"

.SH NAME

pcdovtoppm - create index image for a photo CD

.UN synopsis
.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBpcdovtoppm\fP
[\fB-maxwidth \fP\fIwidth\fP]
[\fB-size \fP\fIsize\fP]
[\fB-across \fP\fIacross\fP]
[\fB-colors \fP\fIcolors\fP]
[\fB-font \fP\fIfont\fP]
[\fB-black \fP|\fB-white\fP]
[\fIpcdfile\fP]
.PP
Minimum unique abbreviations of options are acceptable.

.UN description
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
This program is part of
.BR "Netpbm" (1)\c
\&.
.PP
This program generates an index image in PPM format for a photo CD,
based on the photo CD overview file.
.PP
You can achieve a similar result with \fBhpcdtoppm -Overview\fP
followed by \fBpnmindex -black\fP on the generated PPM images.

.UN options
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(most notably \fB-quiet\fP, see 
.UR index.html#commonoptions
 Common Options
.UE
\&), \fBpcdovtoppm\fP recognizes the following
command line options:
.PP
Where options conflict, the rightmost one takes precedence.
  

.TP
\fB-maxwidth\fP \fIwidth\fP
Maximum width of the result image (default: 1152).

.TP
\fB-size\fP \fIsize\fP
Maximum size of each of the images (default: 192).

.TP
\fB-across\fP \fIacross\fP
Maximum number of images across (default: 6).

.TP
\fB-colors\fP \fIcolors\fP
Maximum number of colors, or \fBnoquant\fP to mean no quantization
  
.TP
\fB-font\fP \fIfont\fP
Font to be used for annotation (default: internal font).

.TP
\fB-black\fP
Black background color (default).

This is the default.

.TP
\fB-white\fP
White background color.


.PP
The Netpbm common options \fB-version\fP, \fB-plain\fP and
\fB-quiet\fP were implemented starting with Netpbm 10.91 (June 2020).  Before
that, none of these options were valid.


.UN examples
.SH EXAMPLES

.nf
\fBpcdovtoppm -m 768 -s 96 -f smallfont.pbm overview.pcd > overview.ppm\fP
.fi

.nf
\fBpcdovtoppm /cdrom/photo_cd/overview.pcd | ppmtojpeg > overview.jpg\fP
.fi

.UN history
.SH HISTORY
.PP
This program was formerly called \fBpcdindex\fP, which did not fit
Netpbm naming conventions.

.UN seealso
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR "hpcdtoppm" (1)\c
\&,
.BR "pnmindex" (1)\c
\&,
.BR "ppmtojpeg" (1)\c
\&,
.BR "ppm" (1)\c
\&
.SH DOCUMENT SOURCE
This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
source.  The master documentation is at
.IP
.B http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pcdovtoppm.html
.PP