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

# pnmtoplainpnm(1)

replaced by pamtopnm

## NAME

pnmtoplainpnm - replaced by pamtopnm

## DESCRIPTION

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

**pnmtoplainpnm** was obsoleted in Netpbm 10.23 (July 2004) by [**pamtopnm**(1)](/pamtopnm/1.md) .  Just use the Netpbm common option **-plain**.

**pnmtoplainpnm** exists today for backward compatibility; all it does is call **pamtopnm -plain**.

**pnmtoplainpnm** was new in Netpbm 8.2 (March 2000) as a renaming of **pnmnoraw**, which was new in Pbmplus in November 1989.

## 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/pnmtoplainpnm.html**