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Ppmtoascii User Manual(0)			     Ppmtoascii User Manual(0)

NAME
       ppmtoascii  -  convert a PPM image to ASCII graphics with ANSI terminal
       color

SYNOPSIS
       ppmtoascii

       [-1x2|-2x4]

       [ppmfile]

DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1)

       ppmtoascii reads a PPM image as input and  produces  a  somewhat	 crude
       ASCII graphic image as output, with ANSI terminal control characters so
       it has crude color when sent to a color text terminal.

       There is no converter for the other direction.

       ppmtoterm does a similar thing, but  displays  each  character  of  the
       image  as  a  single  pixel  (using  the same dense character for every
       pixel), whereas ppmtoascii combines 2 or 8 pixels into  one  character,
       where the character roughly represents those particular pixels.

       Note  that  ANSI	 provides  for	only eight colors (including black and
       white).

       Note that an ANSI terminal can't display a single character in multiple
       colors,	so  where a character represents 8 pixels of differing colors,
       the color of the character is one that is the average of the colors  of
       those pixels.

       pbmtoascii does the same thing for PBM images, with no terminal control
       characters (because none are needed for	a  strictly  black  and	 white
       image).

OPTIONS
       The -1x2 and -2x4 options give you two alternate ways for the pixels to
       get mapped to characters.  With 1x2, the default, each character repre‐
       sents  a	 group	of  1  pixel across by 2 pixels down.  With -2x4, each
       character represents 2 pixels across by 4 pixels down.

SEE ALSO
       pbmtoascii(1)

       ppmtoterm(1)

       ppm(1)

HISTORY
       ppmtoascii was new in Netpbm  10.51  (June  2010).   Frank  Ch.	Eigler
       derived it from pbmtoascii.

AUTHOR
       Copyright (C) 2010 by Frank Ch. Eigler.

netpbm documentation		 09 April 2010	     Ppmtoascii User Manual(0)

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