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<H1>ppmquantall</H1>
Section: User Commands (1)<BR>Updated: 27 July 1990<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
ppmquantall - run ppmquant on a bunch of files all at once, so they share a common colormap
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>ppmquantall</B>
[<B>-ext</B>
<I>extension</I>]
<I>ncolors ppmfile</I>
...
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
Takes a bunch of portable pixmap as input.
Chooses
<I>ncolors</I>
colors to best represent all of the images, maps the
existing colors to the new ones, and
<B>overwrites the input files</B>
with the new quantized versions.
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If you don't want to overwrite your input files, use the
<B>-ext</B>
option. The output files are then named the same as the input files,
plus a period and the extension text you specify.
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Verbose explanation: Let's say you've got a dozen pixmaps that you want
to display on the screen all at the same time. Your screen can only
display 256 different colors, but the pixmaps have a total of a thousand
or so different colors. For a single pixmap you solve this problem with
<I>ppmquant</I>;
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this script solves it for multiple pixmaps. All it does is
concatenate them together into one big pixmap, run
<I>ppmquant</I>
on that, and then split it up into little pixmaps again.
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(Note that another way to solve this problem is to pre-select a set of
colors and then use
<I>ppmquant</I>'s
<B>-map</B>
option to separately quantize each pixmap to that set.)
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+ppmquant">ppmquant</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?5+ppm">ppm</A>(5)</B>
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2>
Copyright (C) 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.
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