---
name: "cistopbm"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "netpbm"
version: "10.86.51-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cistopbm"
---

# cistopbm(1)

convert Compuserve RLE image to PBM

## NAME

cistopbm - convert Compuserve RLE image to PBM

## SYNOPSIS

**cistopbm**  \[**-i**\] \[*cisfile*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This program is part of **Netpbm**(1) .

**cistopbm** reads a Compuserve RLE file as input. and produces a PBM image as output.

## OPTIONS

In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably **-quiet**, see \
  Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ), **cistopbm** recognizes the following command line option:

- **-i**

  Inverse: Reverse the mapping of foreground/background to black/white.

## SEE ALSO

[**pbmtocis**(1)](/pbmtocis/1.md) , **pbm**(1) CompuServe RLE file format ⟨https://web.archive.org/web/20140721001738/staticweb.rasip.fer.hr/research/compress/algorithms\_run-length\_coding.htm⟩

## HISTORY

**cistopbm** was new in Netpbm 10.48 (September 2009).

## AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 2009 John Elliot \<jce@seasip.demon.co.uk\>

## DOCUMENT SOURCE

This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.  The master documentation is at

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  **http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/cistopbm.html**