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25.if n .po 0
26.TH TIFF2BW 1 "November 2, 2005" "libtiff"
27.SH NAME
28tiff2bw \- convert a color
29.SM TIFF
30image to greyscale
31.SH SYNOPSIS
32.B tiff2bw
33[
34options
35]
36.I input.tif
37.I output.tif
38.SH DESCRIPTION
39.I Tiff2bw
40converts an
41.SM RGB
42or Palette color
43.SM TIFF
44image to a greyscale image by
45combining percentages of the red, green, and blue channels.
46By default, output samples are created by taking
4728% of the red channel, 59% of the green channel, and 11% of
48the blue channel.
49To alter these percentages, the
50.BR \-R ,
51.BR \-G ,
52and
53.BR \-B
54options may be used.
55.SH OPTIONS
56.TP
57.B \-c
58Specify a compression scheme to use when writing image data:
59.B "\-c none"
60for no compression,
61.B "-c packbits"
62for the PackBits compression algorithm,
63.B "-c zip
64for the Deflate compression algorithm,
65.B "-c g3
66for the CCITT Group 3 compression algorithm,
67.B "-c g4
68for the CCITT Group 4 compression algorithm,
69and
70.B "\-c lzw"
71for Lempel-Ziv & Welch (the default).
72.TP
73.B \-r
74Write data with a specified number of rows per strip;
75by default the number of rows/strip is selected so that each strip
76is approximately 8 kilobytes.
77.TP
78.B \-R
79Specify the percentage of the red channel to use (default 28).
80.TP
81.B \-G
82Specify the percentage of the green channel to use (default 59).
83.TP
84.B \-B
85Specify the percentage of the blue channel to use (default 11).
86.SH "SEE ALSO"
87.BR pal2rgb (1),
88.BR tiffinfo (1),
89.BR tiffcp (1),
90.BR tiffmedian (1),
91.BR libtiff (3)
92.PP
93Libtiff library home page:
94.BR http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/