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

# ppmtomap(1)

replaced by pnmcolormap

## NAME

ppmtomap - replaced by pnmcolormap

## DESCRIPTION

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

This program exists only for backward compatibility.

Use **pnmcolormap**, which replaced it in January 2002.

One trivial difference between **ppmtomap** and **pnmcolormap** **all** is that if the input is PBM or PGM, **ppmtomap** would produce PPM output, whereas **pnmcolormap all** produces the same kind of output as the input.  This should not be very noticeable, though, as PBM and PGM images are usually usable anywhere a PPM image is.

## OPTIONS

There are no command line options defined specifically for **ppmtomap**, but it recognizes the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (See \
  Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ .)

## SEE ALSO

[**pnmcolormap**(1)](/pnmcolormap/1.md)

## 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/ppmtomap.html**