libnetpbm

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NAME

libnetpbm - read, write, and manipulate Netpbm format images

DESCRIPTION

Before Netpbm release 10 (June 2002), this library was split into four, and most of the documentation is still divided up that way:

  • libpbm contained the routines with "pbm" in their names that deal with PBM image data. The library also contained "pm" subroutines, but the documentation of those is now in its own web page, described below.
  • libpgm is analogous for PGM data.
  • libppm is analogous for PPM data.
  • libpnm contained the routines with "pnm" in their names that deal with all Netpbm images generally.

    Libraries by the above names no longer exist. All the above subroutines are in libnetpbm.

    The four interface header files, pbm.h, pgm.h, ppm.h, pnm.h, however, still exist. You may use these, but with the consolidation of the library, it is easier always to use pam.h.

    The documentation of the more general subroutines that don't deal with image data directly, and whose names start with "pm", is here.