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2 !!!ppmdist
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 OPTIONS
7 BUGS
8 SEE ALSO
9 AUTHOR
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11 !!NAME
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14 ppmdist - simplistic grayscale assignment for machine generated, color images
15 !!SYNOPSIS
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18 __ppmdist__ [[__-intensity__|__-frequency__]
19 [[''ppmfile'']
20 !!DESCRIPTION
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23 Reads a portable pixmap as input, performs a simplistic
24 grayscale assignment intended for use with grayscale or
25 bitmap printers.
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28 Often conversion from ppm to pgm will yield an image with
29 contrast too low for good printer output. The program
30 maximizes contrast between the gray levels
31 output.
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34 A ppm input of n colors is read, and a pgm of n gray levels
35 is written. The gray levels take on the values 0..n-1, while
36 maxval takes on n-1.
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39 The mapping from color to stepped grayscale can be performed
40 in order of input pixel intensity, or input pixel frequency
41 (number of repetitions).
42 !!OPTIONS
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45 __-frequency__
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48 Sort input colors by the number of times a color appears in
49 the input, before mapping to evenly distributed graylevels
50 of output. __-intensity__ Sort input colors by their
51 grayscale intensity, before mapping to evenly distributed
52 graylevels of output. This is the default.
53 !!BUGS
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56 Helpful only for images with a very small number of colors.
57 Perhaps should have been an option to
58 ppmtopgm(1).
59 !!SEE ALSO
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62 ppmtopgm(1), ppmhist(1), ppm(5)
63 !!AUTHOR
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66 Copyright (C) 1993 by Dan Stromberg.
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