---
name: "PTmender"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libpano13"
version: "2.9.23-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/PTmender"
---

# PTmender(1)

Replacement for PTStitcher

## NAME

PTmender - Replacement for PTStitcher

## SYNOPSIS

**PTmender** \[options\] *script\_filename* *images*

## DESCRIPTION

**PTmender** is a replacement for Professor Helmut Dersch's PTStitcher. Most useful features of PTStitcher have already been implemented, particularly:

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  Compatibility with existing command line and script usage

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  Colour and brightness correction

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  Multiple TIFF output

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  PSD output with layer masks

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  Flattened TIFF, JPEG and PNG output

There is also new useful features not available in PTStitcher:

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  Cropped TIFF output

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  LZW compression of TIFF output

Features that haven't been implemented:

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  Support for VRML, PICT, QTVR, IVR

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  Support for other-than-rectilinear lenses such as fisheyes

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  Probably lots of other stuff

## OPTIONS

- **-o** *prefix*

  Prefix for output filename, defaults to *pano*.

- **-q**

  Quiet run

- **-h**

  Output help summary.

- **-s**

  Sort the filenames provided on the command line in lexicographical order (and only on the command line)

If no images are specified on the command line, then the `"i"` lines are used. If `"i"` lines do not contain a valid filename then the `"o"` lines are used.

## AUTHORS

Panorama Tools was originally created by Professor Helmut Dersch, it's now maintained by Bruno Postle \<bruno@postle.net\>.

PTmender was written by Daniel M German \<dmgerman@uvic.ca\>.

This manpage was written by Cyril Brulebois \<cyril.brulebois@enst-bretagne.fr\> and is licensed under the same terms as the libpano13 package itself.