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<!-- Creator : groff version 1.18.1 --> <!-- CreationDate: Fri Jul 13 17:43:20 2007 --> <html> <head> <meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org"> <meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"> <title>TIFFMEDIAN</title> </head> <body> <h1 align=center>TIFFMEDIAN</h1> <a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br> <a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br> <a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br> <a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br> <a href="#NOTES">NOTES</a><br> <a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br> <hr> <a name="NAME"></a> <h2>NAME</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="8%"></td> <td width="91%"> <p>tiffmedian − apply the median cut algorithm to data in a <small>TIFF</small> file</p> </td> </table> <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a> <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="8%"></td> <td width="91%"> <p><b>tiffmedian</b> [ <i>options</i> ] <i>input.tif output.tif</i></p> </td> </table> <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a> <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="8%"></td> <td width="91%"> <p><i>tiffmedian</i> applies the median cut algorithm to an <small>RGB</small> image in <i>input.tif</i> to generate a palette image that is written to <i>output.tif</i>. The generated colormap has, by default, 256 entries. The image data is quantized by mapping each pixel to the closest color values in the colormap.</p> </td> </table> <a name="OPTIONS"></a> <h2>OPTIONS</h2> <!-- TABS --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="5" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="11%"></td> <td width="2%"> <p><b>−c</b></p> </td> <td width="5%"></td> <td width="80%"> <p>Specify the compression to use for data written to the output file: <b>none</b> for no compression, <b>packbits</b> for PackBits compression, <b>lzw</b> for Lempel-Ziv & Welch compression, and <b>zip</b> for Deflate compression. By default <i>tiffmedian</i> will compress data according to the value of the <i>Compression</i> tag found in the source file.</p> </td> <td width="0%"> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="17%"></td> <td width="82%"> <p><small>LZW</small> compression can be specified together with a <i>predictor</i> value. A predictor value of 2 causes each scanline of the output image to undergo horizontal differencing before it is encoded; a value of 1 forces each scanline to be encoded without differencing. LZW-specific options are specified by appending a ‘‘:’’-separated list to the ‘‘lzw’’ option; e.g. <b>−c lzw:2</b> for <small>LZW</small> compression with horizontal differencing.</p> </td> </table> <!-- TABS --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="5" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="2%"> <p><b>−C</b></p> </td> <td width="6%"></td> <td width="80%"> <p>Specify the number of entries to use in the generated colormap. By default all 256 entries/colors are used.</p> </td> <td width="0%"> </td> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="2%"> <p><b>−f</b></p> </td> <td width="6%"></td> <td width="80%"> <p>Apply Floyd-Steinberg dithering before selecting a colormap entry.</p> </td> <td width="0%"> </td> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="2%"> <p><b>−r</b></p> </td> <td width="6%"></td> <td width="80%"> <p>Specify the number of rows (scanlines) in each strip of data written to the output file. By default, <i>tiffmedian</i> attempts to set the rows/strip that no more than 8 kilobytes of data appear in a strip.</p> </td> <td width="0%"> </td> </table> <a name="NOTES"></a> <h2>NOTES</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="8%"></td> <td width="91%"> <p>This program is derived from Paul Heckbert’s <i>median</i> program.</p> </td> </table> <a name="SEE ALSO"></a> <h2>SEE ALSO</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="8%"></td> <td width="91%"> <p><b>pal2rgb</b>(1), <b>tiffinfo</b>(1), <b>tiffcp</b>(1), <b>tiffcmp</b>(1), <b>libtiff</b>(3TIFF)</p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p><b>Color Image Quantization for Frame Buffer Display</b>, Paul Heckbert, SIGGRAPH proceedings, 1982, pp. 297-307.</p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p>Libtiff library home page: <b>http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/</b></p> </td> </table> <hr> </body> </html>
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