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sldtoppm - convert an AutoCAD slide file into a portable pixmap

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sldtoppm 'in 14n [ -adjust ] [ -dir ] [ -height | -ysize s ] [ -info ] [ -lib | -Lib name ] [ -scale s ] [ -verbose ] [ -width | -xsize s ] [ slidefile ]

Reads an AutoCAD\*R slide file and outputs a portable pixmap. If no slidefileis specified, input is read from standard input. The ppmdraw library is used to convert the vector and polygon information in the slide file to a pixmap; see the file ppmdraw.h for details on this package.

-adjust

    If the display on which the slide file was created had non-square pixels, when the slide is processed with

sldtoppm and the

-adjust option is not present, the following warning will appear: Warning - pixels on source screen were non-square.
Specifying

-adjust will correct image width to compensate. Specifying the

-adjust option causes

sldtoppm to scale the width of the image so that pixels in the resulting portable pixmap are square (and hence circles appear as true circles, not ellipses). The scaling is performed in the vector domain, before scan converting the objects. The results are, therefore, superior in appearance to what you'd obtain were you to perform the equivalent scaling with

pnmscale after the bitmap had been created.

-dir

    The input is assumed to be an AutoCAD slide library file. A directory listing each slide in the library is printed on standard error.

• -height size
      Scales the image in the vector domain so it is sizepixels in height. If no

-width or

-xsize option is specified, the width will be adjusted to preserve the pixel aspect ratio.

-info

    Dump the slide file header on standard error, displaying the original screen size and aspect ratio among other information.

• -lib name
      Extracts the slide with the given namefrom the slide library given as input. The specified nameis converted to upper case.
• -Lib name
      Extracts the slide with the given namefrom the slide library given as input. The nameis used exactly as specified; it is not converted to upper case.
• -scale s
      Scales the image by factor s , which may be any floating point value greater than zero. Scaling is done after aspect ratio adjustment, if any. Since scaling is performed in the vector domain, before rasterisation, the results look much better than running the output of

sldtoppm through

R pnmscale .

-verbose

    Dumps the slide file header and lists every vector and polygon in the file on standard error.

• -width size
      Scales the image in the vector domain so it is sizepixels wide. If no

-height or

-ysize option is specified, the height will be adjusted to preserve the pixel aspect ratio.

• -xsize size
      Scales the image in the vector domain so it is sizepixels wide. If no

-height or

-ysize option is specified, the height will be adjusted to preserve the pixel aspect ratio.

• -ysize size
      Scales the image in the vector domain so it is sizepixels in height. If no

-width or

-xsize option is specified, the width will be adjusted to preserve the pixel aspect ratio.

All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.

Only Level 2 slides are converted. Level 1 format has been obsolete since the advent of AutoCAD Release 9 in 1987, and was not portable across machine architectures.

Slide library items with names containing 8 bit (such as ISO) or 16 bit (Kanji, for example) characters may not be found when chosen with the

-lib option unless

sldtoppm has been built with character set conversion functions appropriate to the locale. You can always retrieve slides from libraries regardless of the character set by using the

-Lib option and specifying the precise name of library member. Use the

-dir option to list the slides in a library if you're unsure of the exact name.

AutoCAD Reference Manual: "Slide File Format" ,

R pnmscale (1),

R ppm (5)

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