ppmquantall(1) ppmquantall(1) NAME ppmquantall - run ppmquant on a bunch of files all at once, so they share a common colormap SYNOPSIS ppmquantall [-ext extension] ncolors ppmfile ... DESCRIPTION Takes a bunch of portable pixmap as input. Chooses ncolors colors to best represent all of the images, maps the existing colors to the new ones, and overwrites the input files with the new quantized versions. If you dont want to overwrite your input files, use the -ext option. The output files are then named the same as the input files, plus a period and the extension text you specify. Verbose explanation: Lets say youve 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 thou sand or so different colors. For a single pixmap you solve this prob lem with ppmquant; this script solves it for multiple pixmaps. All it does is concatenate them together into one big pixmap, run ppmquant on that, and then split it up into little pixmaps again. (Note that another way to solve this problem is to pre-select a set of colors and then use ppmquants -map option to separately quantize each pixmap to that set.) SEE ALSO ppmquant(1), ppm(5) AUTHOR Copyright (C) 1991 by Jef Poskanzer. 27 July 1990 ppmquantall(1)