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

# pamtoavs(1)

convert a Netpbm image to an AVS X image

## NAME

pamtoavs - convert a Netpbm image to an AVS X image

## SYNOPSIS

**pamtoavs** \[*netpbmfile*\]

## DESCRIPTION

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

**pamtoavs** reads a Netpbm image as input and produces a Stardent \<abbr title="Application Visualization System"\>AVS\</abbr\> X image as output. AVS X images are one of the few image formats  Gnuplot ⟨http://www.gnuplot.info/⟩  v4.2 and later can use.

*netpbmfile* is the input file, which defaults to Standard Input. Output is always on Standard Output.

Try the following:

```
    gnuplot> plot 'myimage.avs' binary filetype=avs with rgbimage
```

See the **Gnuplot** manual" (1) for more information.

## OPTIONS

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

## AUTHOR

Copyright © 2010 Scott Pakin, *scott+pbm@pakin.org*

## SEE ALSO

[**avstopam**(1)](/avstopam/1.md) , gnuplot ⟨http://www.gnuplot.info/⟩ , **pam**(1)

## 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/pamtoavs.html**