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

# ppmtojpeg(1)

replaced by pnmtojpeg

## NAME

ppmtojpeg - replaced by pnmtojpeg

## DESCRIPTION

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

**ppmtojpeg** was replaced in Netpbm 9.19 (September 2001) by [**pnmtojpeg**(1)](/pnmtojpeg/1.md) .

**pnmtojpeg** is backward compatible with **ppmtojpeg** except that with PGM or PBM input, it generates JPEG output in the special grayscale format.

## 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/ppmtojpeg.html**