Ppmtoppm User Manual(0)				       Ppmtoppm User Manual(0)



NAME
       ppmtoppm - copy PPM image


SYNOPSIS
       ppmtoppm


DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       ppmtoppm simply copies a PPM image from Standard Input to Standard Out-
       put.  This may seem an unnecessary duplication  of  cat,	 but  remember
       that  a	PPM program can read a PBM or PGM image, and the right kind of
       PAM, as if it were PPM.	So ppmtoppm can read either a PBM, PGM, or PPM
       image and produce a PPM image as output.

       Even  that is of limited usefulness because of the fact that almost any
       program to which you would feed the resulting PPM image could also just
       take the original image directly.  However, sometimes you really need a
       true PPM image.

       When you know you have a PGM image and want a PPM image, pgmtoppm is  a
       more  general  way to do that conversion.  When you know you have a PBM
       image, use that and pbmtopgm.



SEE ALSO
       pgmtopgm(1),  pamtopam(1),   pamtopnm(1),   pgmtoppm(1),	  pbmtopgm(1),
       ppm(1), ppm(1), ppm(1),


HISTORY
       This program was added to Netpbm in Release 10.9 (September 2002).



netpbm documentation		 Feburary 2007	       Ppmtoppm User Manual(0)