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PROGRAM:

NAME

sam2p - program to convert raster images to PostScript, PDF, and other formats

SYNOPSIS

sam2p [options] infile outfile
sam2p [options] jobfile

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the sam2p command. It was written for the Debian
distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. The complete
documentation can be found in /usr/share/doc/sam2p/README.gz

sam2p is a program that converts many raster (bitmap) image formats into Adobe PostScript
or PDF files and several other formats. The images are not vectorized. sam2p gives full
control to the user to specify standards-compliance, compression, and bit depths.

sam2p can operate in two modes: one-liner mode and job mode. In job mode the user has to
write a ``job'' file which specifies the conversion parameters and allows full control of
all aspects of the final output. This manpage deals only with one-liner mode, see
/usr/share/doc/sam2p/README.gz for details on job mode.

EXAMPLES

To convert an image file to EPS, use:

sam2p infile.gif outfile.eps

The output format is guessed from the file extension. Optionally, the output format also
can be specified as option or as prefix to the output file. For example, the following
commands produce postscript level 3:

sam2p infile.gif psl3:outfile.ps

sam2p -ps:3 infile.gif outfile.ps

sam2p can include its own (zip and lzw) decompression filter in Postscript files, allowing
better compression than normally supported by Postscript level 1:

sam2p -1 -c:zip infile.gif outfile.ps

sam2p -1 -c:lzw infile.gif outfile.ps

OPTIONS

-1, -ps:1, psl1:
produce Postscript Level 1

-1c, -ps:1c, pslc:
produce Postscript Level 1 with the CMYK and `colorimage' extension

-2, -ps:2, psl2:
produce Postscript Level 2 (default for postscript)

-3, -ps:3, psl3:
produce Postscript Level 3

-pdf:b0, pdfb1.0:
produce PDF version 1.0 (BI inline image)

-pdf:b2, pdfb1.2:
produce PDF version 1.2 (BI inline image) (default for PDF)

-pdf:0, pdf1.0:
produce PDF version 1.0 (XObject image)

-pdf:2, pdf1.2:
produce PDF version 1.2 (XObject image)

-e:0, -e:none
don't scale

-e, -e:1, -e:scale
scale image to fit page

-e:rot, -e:rotate
scale and rotate image to fit page (default if output filename has .ps extension)

-m:dimen
set all page margins to dimen
dimen can have one of the following units (as in TeX): bp, in, pt, pc, dd, cc, sp,
cm, mm

-m:spec:dimen
set spec margin(s) to dimen (spec can be l, r, t, b, v (top and bottom), h (left
and right))

-m:dpi:res
set output EPS or PDF to resolution 72*72/res dpi

-m:dpi:-res
set output EPS or PDF to resolution res dpi

-c:none, -c:lzw, -c:zip, -c:rle, -c:fax, -c:dct, -c:jpeg
select compression type (support depends on output format)

-j:quiet
print only error and fatal error messages, suppress warnings, notices etc. Must be
put at the beginning of the command line to suppress initial banners, too.

-- If not the last argument: treat all further arguments as files (required if a
filename contains a colon or starts with a minus)
If the last argument: use input filename as output filename (i.e. overwrite input
file).

SUPPORTED FILE FORMATS

Input formats:
PNM, PBM, PGM, PPM, XPM, GIF, LBM, TGA, PCX,
JPEG (requires djpeg from package libjpeg-progs),
TIFF (requires tifftopnm from package netpbm),
PNG (requires pngtopnm from package netpbm),
PS, EPS, PDF (require ghostscript)

Output formats:
XWD, BMP, PNG, TIFF6, JPEG, PNM, GIF89a, XPM, PS (levels 1,2,3), EPS (levels 2,3),
PDF (1.0 and 1.2)

For some formats, sam2p supports transparency. See the README file for more info.

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