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

# pamrgbatopng(1)

replaced by pamtopng

## NAME

pamrgbatopng - replaced by pamtopng

## SYNOPSIS

**pamrgbatopng** \[*pamfile*\]

## DESCRIPTION

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

**pamrgbatopng** was obsoleted by [**pamtopng**(1)](/pamtopng/1.md) , introduced with Netpbm 10.70 (June 2015).  **pamtopng** is backward compatible with **pamrgbatopng**, plus adds a plethora additional functions.

Starting in Release 10.70, **pamrgbatopng** is just an alias for **pamtopng**.

**pamrgbatopng** was added to Netpbm in 2005, and was always expected to be retired eventually because it had almost no features, compared to the more popular and much older **pnmtopng**.  It had, in fact, no command line options.  But the one feature it had that **pnmtopng** lacked was the ability to recognize transparency in a PAM image.  **pamtopng** has that, as well as most of the features of **pnmtopng**.

## 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/pamrgbatopng.html**