.TH picttoppm 1 "16 January 1990"
.IX picttoppm
.SH NAME
picttoppm - convert a Macintosh PICT file into a portable pixmap
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B picttoppm
.RB [ -verbose ]
.RI [ pictfile ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Reads a PICT file (version 1 or 2) and outputs a portable pixmap.
.IX PICT
.IX Macintosh
Useful as the first step in converting a scanned image to something
that can be displayed on Unix.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B -v
Turns on verbose mode which prints a 
a whole bunch of information that only
.I picttoppm
hackers really care about.
.SH BUGS
The PICT file format is a general drawing format.
.I picttoppm
only supports a small subset of its operations but is still very useful for
files produced by scanning software.  In particular, text added to a
scanned image will be silently ignored.
.SH SEE ALSO
Inside Macintosh volume 5,
ppmtopict(1),
ppm(5)
.SH AUTHOR
Copyright 1989 George Phillips
.\" Permission is granted to freely distribute this program in whole or in
.\" part provided you don't make money off it, you don't pretend that you
.\" wrote it and that this notice accompanies the code.
.\"
.\" George Phillips <phillips@cs.ubc.ca>
.\" Department of Computer Science
.\" University of British Columbia