---
name: "psiconv"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "psiconv"
version: "0.9.8-4+b1"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/psiconv"
---

# psiconv(1)

A utility for handling Psion files

## NAME

Version - A utility for handling Psion files

## DESCRIPTION

Syntax: psiconv \[OPTIONS..\] \[FILE\] Convert the psion file FILE to other formats If FILE is not specified, use stdin

**-c**, **--configfile**=*FILE* Read extra configuration file after normal ones

- **-e**, **--encoding**=*ENC*

  Output encoding (default: UTF8)

- **-h**, **--help**

  Display this help and exit

- **-n**, **--noise**=*LEVEL*

  Select what to print on stderr (overrides psiconv.conf)

- **-o**, **--outputfile**

  Output to file instead of stdout

- **-T**, **--type**=*FILETYPE*

  Output type (default: XHTML or TIFF

- **-V**, **--version**

  Display the program version and exit

### The following encodings are currently supported:

- UTF8

  Variable length Unicode encoding

- UCS2

  Fixed 16-bit length Unicode encoding

- Psion

  The encoding your Psion uses (as in psiconv.conf)

- ASCII

  7-bit ASCII (other symbols are substituted by '?')

### The following noise levels are currently supported:

-

  1 or F: Fatal errors only 2 or E: Errors 3 or W: Warnings 4 or P: Progress indicators 5 or D: Debug data

### The following abbreviations are used in the output types list:

- C

  \- processes ClipArt files

- c

  \- processes ClipArt files containing only one image

- M

  \- processes MBM files

- m

  \- processes MBM files containing only one image

- S

  \- processes Sketch files

- T

  \- processes TextEd files

- W

  \- processes Word files

### The following output types are known:

- ASCII

  \[   TW\] Plain text without much layout

- XHTML

  \[   TW\] XHTML 1.0 Strict, using CSS for formatting

- HTML4

  \[   TW\] HTML 4.01 Transitional, without CSS

- 8BIM

  \[cmS  \] Photoshop resource format

- 8BIMTEXT

  \[cmS  \] Photoshop resource text format

- 8BIMWTEXT \[cmS

  \] Photoshop resource wide text format

- APP1

  \[cmS  \] Raw application information

- APP1JPEG

  \[cmS  \] Raw JPEG binary data

- AVS

  \[CMS  \] AVS X image

- B

  \[CMS  \] Raw blue samples

- BMP

  \[cmS  \] Microsoft Windows bitmap image

- BMP2

  \[cmS  \] Microsoft Windows bitmap image v2

- BMP3

  \[cmS  \] Microsoft Windows bitmap image v3

- C

  \[CMS  \] Raw cyan samples

- CIN

  \[CMS  \] Cineon Image File

- CMYK

  \[CMS  \] Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black samples

- CMYKA

  \[CMS  \] Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and opacity samples

- DCX

  \[CMS  \] ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush

- DIB

  \[cmS  \] Microsoft Windows 3.X Packed Device-Independent Bitmap

- DPX

  \[CMS  \] Digital Moving Picture Exchange

- EPDF

  \[cmS  \] Encapsulated Portable Document Format

- EPI

  \[cmS  \] Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format

- EPS

  \[cmS  \] Adobe Encapsulated PostScript

- EPS2

  \[cmS  \] Adobe Level II Encapsulated PostScript

- EPS3

  \[CMS  \] Adobe Level III Encapsulated PostScript

- EPSF

  \[cmS  \] Adobe Encapsulated PostScript

- EPSI

  \[cmS  \] Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format

- EPT

  \[cmS  \] Adobe Encapsulated PostScript with MS-DOS TIFF preview

- EXIF

  \[cmS  \] Exif digital camera binary data

- FAX

  \[CMS  \] Group 3 FAX

- FITS

  \[cmS  \] Flexible Image Transport System

- FPX

  \[cmS  \] FlashPix Format

- G

  \[CMS  \] Raw green samples

- G3

  \[cmS  \] Group 3 FAX

- GIF

  \[CMS  \] CompuServe graphics interchange format

- GIF87

  \[cmS  \] CompuServe graphics interchange format

- GRAY

  \[CMS  \] Raw gray samples

- H

  \[cmS  \] Internal format

- HISTOGRAM \[cmS

  \] Histogram of the image

- HTM

  \[cmS  \] Hypertext Markup Language and a client-side image map

- HTML

  \[cmS  \] Hypertext Markup Language and a client-side image map

- ICB

  \[CMS  \] Truevision Targa image

- ICC

  \[cmS  \] ICC Color Profile

- ICM

  \[cmS  \] ICC Color Profile

- IPTC

  \[cmS  \] IPTC Newsphoto

- IPTCTEXT

  \[cmS  \] IPTC Newsphoto text format

- IPTCWTEXT \[cmS

  \] IPTC Newsphoto text format

- JNG

  \[cmS  \] JPEG Network Graphics

- JP2

  \[cmS  \] JPEG-2000 JP2 File Format Syntax

- JPC

  \[cmS  \] JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax

- JPEG

  \[cmS  \] Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format

- JPG

  \[cmS  \] Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format

- K

  \[CMS  \] Raw black samples

- LOCALE

  \[cmS  \] Locale Message File

- LOCALEC

  \[cmS  \] Locale Message File - C code

- LOCALEH

  \[cmS  \] Locale Message File - C header file

- LOCALEMC

  \[cmS  \] Microsoft Message File

- LOGO

  \[cmS  \] GraphicsMagick Logo

- M

  \[CMS  \] Raw magenta samples

- M2V

  \[CMS  \] MPEG Video Stream

- MAP

  \[cmS  \] Colormap intensities and indices

- MAT

  \[CMS  \] MATLAB image format

- MATTE

  \[CMS  \] MATTE format

- MIFF

  \[CMS  \] Magick Image File Format

- MNG

  \[CMS  \] Multiple-image Network Graphics

- MONO

  \[cmS  \] Bi-level bitmap in least-significant-byte first order

- MPC

  \[CMS  \] Magick Persistent Cache image format

- MPEG

  \[CMS  \] MPEG Video Stream

- MPG

  \[CMS  \] MPEG Video Stream

- MPR

  \[cmS  \] Magick Persistent Registry

- MPRI

  \[cmS  \] Magick Persistent Registry

- MSL

  \[CMS  \] Magick Scripting Language

- MTV

  \[CMS  \] MTV Raytracing image format

- MVG

  \[cmS  \] Magick Vector Graphics

- NULL

  \[cmS  \] Constant image of uniform color

- O

  \[CMS  \] Raw opacity samples

- OTB

  \[cmS  \] On-the-air bitmap

- P7

  \[CMS  \] Xv thumbnail format

- PAL

  \[cmS  \] 16bit/pixel interleaved YUV

- PALM

  \[cmS  \] Palm pixmap

- PBM

  \[CMS  \] Portable bitmap format (black and white)

- PCD

  \[cmS  \] Photo CD

- PCDS

  \[cmS  \] Photo CD

- PCL

  \[cmS  \] Page Control Language

- PCT

  \[cmS  \] Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT

- PCX

  \[cmS  \] ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush

- PDB

  \[CMS  \] Palm Database ImageViewer Format

- PDF

  \[CMS  \] Portable Document Format

- PGM

  \[CMS  \] Portable graymap format (gray scale)

- PICON

  \[cmS  \] Personal Icon

- PICT

  \[cmS  \] Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT

- PM

  \[cmS  \] X Windows system pixmap (color)

- PNG

  \[cmS  \] Portable Network Graphics

- PNG24

  \[cmS  \] 24-bit RGB PNG, opaque only

- PNG32

  \[cmS  \] 32-bit RGBA PNG, semitransparency OK

- PNG8

  \[cmS  \] 8-bit indexed PNG, binary transparency only

- PNM

  \[CMS  \] Portable anymap

- PPM

  \[CMS  \] Portable pixmap format (color)

- PREVIEW

  \[cmS  \] Show a preview an image enhancement, effect, or f/x

- PS

  \[CMS  \] Adobe PostScript

- PS2

  \[CMS  \] Adobe Level II PostScript

- PS3

  \[CMS  \] Adobe Level III PostScript

- PSD

  \[CMS  \] Adobe Photoshop bitmap

- PTIF

  \[cmS  \] Pyramid encoded TIFF

- R

  \[CMS  \] Raw red samples

- RAS

  \[CMS  \] SUN Rasterfile

- RGB

  \[CMS  \] Raw red, green, and blue samples

- RGBA

  \[CMS  \] Raw red, green, blue, and matte samples

- SGI

  \[CMS  \] Irix RGB image

- SHTML

  \[cmS  \] Hypertext Markup Language and a client-side image map

- SUN

  \[CMS  \] SUN Rasterfile

- SVG

  \[CMS  \] Scalable Vector Gaphics

- SVGZ

  \[CMS  \] Scalable Vector Gaphics (ZIP compressed)

- TEXT

  \[CMS  \] Text

- TGA

  \[CMS  \] Truevision Targa image

- TIF

  \[CMS  \] Tagged Image File Format

- TIFF

  \[CMS  \] Tagged Image File Format

- TXT

  \[CMS  \] Text

- UIL

  \[cmS  \] X-Motif UIL table

- UYVY

  \[cmS  \] 16bit/pixel interleaved YUV

- VDA

  \[CMS  \] Truevision Targa image

- VICAR

  \[cmS  \] VICAR rasterfile format

- VID

  \[CMS  \] Visual Image Directory

- VIFF

  \[CMS  \] Khoros Visualization image

- VST

  \[CMS  \] Truevision Targa image

- WBMP

  \[cmS  \] Wireless Bitmap (level 0) image

- X

  \[cmS  \] X Window System

- XBM

  \[cmS  \] X Windows system bitmap (black and white)

- XMP

  \[cmS  \] Adobe XML metadata

- XPM

  \[cmS  \] X Windows system pixmap (color)

- XV

  \[CMS  \] Khoros Visualization image

- XWD

  \[cmS  \] X Windows system window dump (color)

- Y

  \[CMS  \] Raw yellow samples

- YUV

  \[cmS  \] CCIR 601 4:1:1 or 4:2:2

When using UTF8 with LaTeX type, the resulting LaTeX source should be converted

-

  to a suitable encoding for your LaTeX installation before being typeset

## SEE ALSO

The full documentation for **Version** is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the **info** and **Version** programs are properly installed at your site, the command

-

  **info Version**

should give you access to the complete manual.
