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- pgm(5) FILE FORMATS pgm(5)
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- NAME
- pgm - portable graymap file format
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- DESCRIPTION
- The portable graymap format is a lowest common denominator
- grayscale file format. The definition is as follows:
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- - A "magic number" for identifying the file type. A pgm
- file's magic number is the two characters "P2".
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- - Whitespace (blanks, TABs, CRs, LFs).
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- - A width, formatted as ASCII characters in decimal.
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- - Whitespace.
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- - A height, again in ASCII decimal.
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- - Whitespace.
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- - The maximum gray value, again in ASCII decimal.
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- - Whitespace.
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- - Width * height gray values, each in ASCII decimal, between
- 0 and the specified maximum value, separated by whi-
- tespace, starting at the top-left corner of the graymap,
- proceding in normal English reading order. A value of 0
- means black, and the maximum value means white.
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- - Characters from a "#" to the next end-of-line are ignored
- (comments).
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- - No line should be longer than 70 characters.
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- Here is an example of a small graymap in this format:
- P2
- # feep.pgm
- 24 7
- 15
- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- 0 3 3 3 3 0 0 7 7 7 7 0 0 11 11 11 11 0 0 15 15 15 15 0
- 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 15 0
- 0 3 3 3 0 0 0 7 7 7 0 0 0 11 11 11 0 0 0 15 15 15 15 0
- 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
- 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 7 7 0 0 11 11 11 11 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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- Programs that read this format should be as lenient as pos-
- sible, accepting anything that looks remotely like a gray-
- map.
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- pgm(5) FILE FORMATS pgm(5)
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- There is also a variant on the format, available by setting
- the RAWBITS option at compile time. This variant is dif-
- ferent in the following ways:
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- - The "magic number" is "P5" instead of "P2".
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- - The gray values are stored as plain bytes, instead of
- ASCII decimal.
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- - No whitespace is allowed in the grays section, and only a
- single character of whitespace (typically a newline) is
- allowed after the maxval.
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- - The files are smaller and many times faster to read and
- write.
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- Note that this raw format can only be used for maxvals less
- than or equal to 255. If you use the _✓p_✓g_✓m library and try to
- write a file with a larger maxval, it will automatically
- fall back on the slower but more general plain format.
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- SEE ALSO
- fitstopgm(1), fstopgm(1), hipstopgm(1), lispmtopgm(1), psid-
- topgm(1), rawtopgm(1), pgmbentley(1), pgmedge(1),
- pgmenhance(1), pgmhist(1), pgmnorm(1), pgmoil(1),
- pgmramp(1), pgmtofits(1), pgmtofs(1), pgmtolispm(1),
- pgmtopbm(1), pgmtops(1), pnm(5), pbm(5), ppm(5)
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- AUTHOR
- Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.
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