pgmtosbig(1)

pgmtosbig1

Convert pgm image to sbig format

Usage

pgmtosbig

[pgmfile]

Overview

This program is part of Netpbm(1) .

pgmtosbig reads a PGM image as input and produces a Santa Barbara Instrument Group SBIG Type 3 image as output.

Note that this format is distinct from the SBIG ST-4 format.

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The image is uncompressed

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The image says it is from a "ST-6" camera

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The image header has these lines:

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camera type

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height

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width

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saturation level

Options

There are no command line options defined specifically for pgmtosbig, but it recognizes the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (See
Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ .)

Document source

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

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pgmtosbig.html

Releases

3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 12–13
  2. Arch

History

pgmtosbig was new in Netpbm 10.70, and was intended primarily as a test tool for sbigtopgm.

From netpbm 10.86.51-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.