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

# pnmflip(1)

replaced by pamflip

## NAME

pnmflip - replaced by pamflip

## DESCRIPTION

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

**pnmflip** was replaced in Netpbm 10.13 (December 2002) by [**pamflip**(1)](/pamflip/1.md) .

**pamflip** is mostly backward compatible with **pnmflip**, but works on PAM images too.

One way **pamflip** is not backward compatible with **pnmflip** is that **pnmflip** lets you specify any number of basic flip options, whereas **pamflip** requires exactly one.  (**pamflip** provides the **-xform** option for requesting multiple transformations, though). Because of this incompatibility, **pnmflip** still exists as a separate program, and all it does is translate its options to **pamflip** style and run **pamflip**.

You should not make any new use of **pnmflip** and if you modify an existing use, you should upgrade to **pamflip**.  But note that if you write a program that might have to be used with very old Netpbm, **pnmflip** is the only way to do that.

## 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/pnmflip.html**