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pnmcat - concatenate Netpbm images

pnmcat

{-leftright | -lr | -topbottom | -tb}

[-white|-black]

[-jtop|-jbottom|-jcenter] [-jleft|-jright|-jcenter]

pnmfile ...

Minimum unique abbreviation of option is acceptable. You may use double hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options. You may use white space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from its value.

This program is part of Netpbm(1).

pnmcat reads one or more PNM images as input, concatenates them either left to right or top to bottom, and produces a single PNM image as output.

The arguments are names of input files. Any one of these, but not more than one, may be "-" to indicate Standard Input. If you have no arguments, that means a single input image from Standard Input (and that is pointless - the output is the same as the input).

To assemble a regular grid of images, you can use pamundice.

To do the reverse, you might use pamdice to split an image up into smaller ones of equal size or pamcut to chop off part of an image or extract part of an image.

pnmtile concatenates a single input image to itself repeatedly.

In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see
Common Options ), pnmcat recognizes the following command line options:

Combine images vertically, top to bottom.

Combine images horizontally, left to right.

You must specify the direction by specifying one of the above.


If the PNM images are not all the same height when you're concatenating left
to right or width when you're concatenating top to bottom, the smaller ones
have to be justified with the largest. By default, pnmcat centers
them, but you can specify justification to one side or the other with one of
the -jxxx options. So, -topbottom -jleft would stack the PNMs on top of each other, flush with the left edge. -leftright -jbottom would line up the images left to right with their bottom edges aligned as if sitting on a table.

These options specify what color to use to fill in the extra space when doing the justification. If neither is specified, pnmcat chooses whichever seems to be right for the images.

pamundice(1), pamdice(1), pnmtile(1), pamcut(1), pnm(1)

Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.

This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source. The master documentation is at

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pnmcat.html
30 May 2011 netpbm documentation