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

# pcdovtoppm(1)

create index image for a photo CD

## NAME

pcdovtoppm - create index image for a photo CD

## SYNOPSIS

**pcdovtoppm** \[**-maxwidth** *width*\] \[**-size** *size*\] \[**-across** *across*\] \[**-colors** *colors*\] \[**-font** *font*\] \[**-black** \|**-white**\] \[*pcdfile*\]

Minimum unique abbreviations of options are acceptable.

## DESCRIPTION

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

This program generates an index image in PPM format for a photo CD, based on the photo CD overview file.

You can achieve a similar result with **hpcdtoppm -Overview** followed by **pnmindex -black** on the generated PPM images.

## OPTIONS

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

Where options conflict, the rightmost one takes precedence.

- **-maxwidth** *width*

  Maximum width of the result image (default: 1152).

- **-size** *size*

  Maximum size of each of the images (default: 192).

- **-across** *across*

  Maximum number of images across (default: 6).

- **-colors** *colors*

  Maximum number of colors, or **noquant** to mean no quantization

- **-font** *font*

  Font to be used for annotation (default: internal font).

- **-black**

  Black background color (default).

  This is the default.

- **-white**

  White background color.

The Netpbm common options **-version**, **-plain** and **-quiet** were implemented starting with Netpbm 10.91 (June 2020).  Before that, none of these options were valid.

## EXAMPLES

```
pcdovtoppm -m 768 -s 96 -f smallfont.pbm overview.pcd > overview.ppm
```

```
pcdovtoppm /cdrom/photo_cd/overview.pcd | ppmtojpeg > overview.jpg
```

## HISTORY

This program was formerly called **pcdindex**, which did not fit Netpbm naming conventions.

## SEE ALSO

[**hpcdtoppm**(1)](/hpcdtoppm/1.md) , [**pnmindex**(1)](/pnmindex/1.md) , [**ppmtojpeg**(1)](/ppmtojpeg/1.md) , **ppm**(1)

## 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/pcdovtoppm.html**