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

# pnmtorast(1)

convert a PPM into a Sun rasterfile

## NAME

pnmtorast - convert a PPM into a Sun rasterfile

## SYNOPSIS

**pnmtorast** \[**-standard**\|**-rle**\] \[*pnmfile*\]

## DESCRIPTION

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

**pnmtorast**reads a PPM image as input and produces a Sun rasterfile as output.

Color values in Sun rasterfiles are eight bits wide, so **pnmtorast** will automatically scale colors to have a maxval of 255.  An extra **pamdepth** step is not necessary.

## OPTIONS

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

All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.

- **-standard**

  Forces the result to be in RT\_STANDARD form.

- **-rle**

  Forces the result to be in RT\_BYTE\_ENCODED, which is smaller but, well, less standard.

  The default is **-rle**.

## SEE ALSO

[**rasttopnm**(1)](/rasttopnm/1.md) , **pnm**(1)

## AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.

## 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/pnmtorast.html**