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NAME
pnmrotate - rotate a PNM image by some angle

SYNOPSIS
pnmrotate [-noantialias] [-background=color] angle [pnmfile]

DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).

pnmrotate reads a PNM image as input. It rotates it by the specified angle and produces
the same kind of PNM image as output.

The input is the file named by pnmfile or Standard Input if you don't specify pnmfile.
The output goes to Standard Output.

The resulting image is a rectangle that contains the (rectangular) input image within it,
rotated with respect to its bottom edge. The containing rectangle is as small as possible
to contain the rotated image. The background of the containing image is a single color
that pnmrotate determines to be the background color of the original image, or that you
specify explicitly.

angle is in decimal degrees (floating point), measured counter-clockwise. It can be nega-
tive, but it should be between -90 and 90.

You should use pamflip instead for rotations that are a multiple of a quarter turn. It is
faster and more accurate.

For rotations greater than 45 degrees you may get better results if you first use pamflip
to do a 90 degree rotation and then pnmrotate less than 45 degrees back the other direc-
tion.

The rotation algorithm is Alan Paeth's three-shear method. Each shear is implemented by
looping over the source pixels and distributing fractions to each of the destination pix-
els. This has an "anti-aliasing" effect - it avoids jagged edges and similar artifacts.
However, it also means that the original colors or gray levels in the image are modified.
If you need to keep precisely the same set of colors, you can use the -noantialias option.

The program runs faster and uses less real memory with the -noantialias option. It uses a
large amount of virtual memory either way, as it keeps a copy of the input image and a
copy of the output image in memory, using 12 bytes per pixel for each. But with -noan-
tialias, it accesses this memory sequentially in half a dozen passes, with only a few
pages of memory at a time required in real memory.

In contrast, without -noantialias, the program's real memory working set size is one page
per input image row plus one page per output image row. Before Netpbm 10.16 (June 2003),
-noantialias had the same memory requirement.

OPTIONS
All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. You may use two hyphens
instead of one to designate an option. You may use either white space or equals signs
between an option name and its value.

-background=color
This determines the color of the background on which the rotated image sits.

Specify the color (color) as described for the argument of the ppm_parsecolor()
library routine <libppm.html#colorname> .

By default, if you don't specify this option, pnmrotate selects what appears to it
to be the background color of the original image. It determines this color rather
simplistically, by taking an average of the colors of the two top corners of the
image.

This option was new in Netpbm 10.15. Before that, pnmrotate always behaved as is
the default now.

-noantialias
This option forces pnmrotate to simply move pixels around instead of synthesizing
output pixels from multiple input pixels. The latter could cause the output to
contain colors that are not in the input, which may not be desirable. It also
probably makes the output contain a large number of colors. If you need a small
number of colors, but it doesn't matter if they are the exact ones from the input,
consider using pnmquant on the output instead of using -noantialias.

Note that to ensure the output does not contain colors that are not in the input,
you also must consider the background color. See the -background option.

REFERENCES
"A Fast Algorithm for General Raster Rotation" by Alan Paeth, Graphics Interface '86, pp.
77-81.

SEE ALSO
pnmshear(1), pamflip(1), pnmquant(1), pnm(1)

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

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pnmrotate.html

netpbm documentation 30 August 2002 Pnmrotate User Manual(0)

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