PGMB_IO
binary Portable Gray Map (PGM) Files
Read and Write Utilities


PGMB_IO is a C library which reads and writes files in the binary Portable Gray Map (PGM) format for 2D grayscale graphics information.

There are many graphics programs, such as XV and GIMP, that can display images in this format, or translate them to other formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, MacPaint, X Window, and so on.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

PGMB_IO is available in a C version and a C++ version.

Related Data and Programs:

PBMB_IO, a C library which handles the Portable Bit Map (PBM) format.

PGMB, a data directory which contains examples of binary Portable Gray Map (PGM) files.

PGMA_IO, a C library which handles the ASCII Portable Gray Map (PGM) format.

PGMA_TO_PGMB, a C++ program which converts an ASCII Portable Gray Map (PGM) file to a binary PGM file.

PPMB_IO, a C library which handles the binary Portable Pixel Map (PPM) format.

PGMB_TO_PGMA, a C++ program which converts a binary Portable Gray Map (PGM) file to an ASCII PGM file.

Reference:

  1. the NETPBM homepage.

Source Code:

Examples and Tests:

List of Routines:

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Last revised on 16 June 2012.