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1 | .\" $Id: tiffdither.1,v 1.3 2005/11/02 11:07:19 dron Exp $ | |
2 | .\" | |
3 | .\" Copyright (c) 1990-1997 Sam Leffler | |
4 | .\" Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc. | |
5 | .\" | |
6 | .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and | |
7 | .\" its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided | |
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14 | .\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, | |
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22 | .\" LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE | |
23 | .\" OF THIS SOFTWARE. | |
24 | .\" | |
25 | .if n .po 0 | |
26 | .TH TIFFDITHER 1 "September 20, 2005" "libtiff" | |
27 | .SH NAME | |
28 | tiffdither \- convert a greyscale image to bilevel using dithering | |
29 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
30 | .B tiffdither | |
31 | [ | |
32 | .I options | |
33 | ] | |
34 | .I input.tif | |
35 | .I output.tif | |
36 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
37 | .I tiffdither | |
38 | converts a single channel 8-bit greyscale image to a bilevel image | |
39 | using Floyd-Steinberg error propagation with thresholding. | |
40 | .SH OPTIONS | |
41 | .TP | |
42 | .B \-c | |
43 | Specify the compression to use for data written to the output file: | |
44 | .B none | |
45 | for no compression, | |
46 | .B packbits | |
47 | for PackBits compression, | |
48 | .B lzw | |
49 | for Lempel-Ziv & Welch compression, | |
50 | .B zip | |
51 | for Deflate compression, | |
52 | .B g3 | |
53 | for CCITT Group 3 (T.4) compression, | |
54 | and | |
55 | .B g4 | |
56 | for CCITT Group 4 (T.6) compression. | |
57 | By default | |
58 | .I tiffdither | |
59 | will compress data according to the value of the | |
60 | .I Compression | |
61 | tag found in the source file. | |
62 | .IP | |
63 | The | |
64 | .SM CCITT | |
65 | Group 3 and Group 4 compression algorithms can only | |
66 | be used with bilevel data. | |
67 | .IP | |
68 | Group 3 compression can be specified together with several | |
69 | T.4-specific options: | |
70 | .B 1d | |
71 | for 1-dimensional encoding, | |
72 | .B 2d | |
73 | for 2-dimensional encoding, | |
74 | and | |
75 | .B fill | |
76 | to force each encoded scanline to be zero-filled so that the | |
77 | terminating EOL code lies on a byte boundary. | |
78 | Group 3-specific options are specified by appending a ``:''-separated | |
79 | list to the ``g3'' option; e.g. | |
80 | .B "\-c g3:2d:fill" | |
81 | to get 2D-encoded data with byte-aligned EOL codes. | |
82 | .IP | |
83 | .SM LZW | |
84 | compression can be specified together with a | |
85 | .I predictor | |
86 | value. | |
87 | A predictor value of 2 causes | |
88 | each scanline of the output image to undergo horizontal | |
89 | differencing before it is encoded; a value | |
90 | of 1 forces each scanline to be encoded without differencing. | |
91 | LZW-specific options are specified by appending a ``:''-separated | |
92 | list to the ``lzw'' option; e.g. | |
93 | .B "\-c lzw:2" | |
94 | for | |
95 | .SM LZW | |
96 | compression with horizontal differencing. | |
97 | .TP | |
98 | .B \-f | |
99 | Specify the bit fill order to use in writing output data. | |
100 | By default, | |
101 | .I tiffdither | |
102 | will create a new file with the same fill order as the original. | |
103 | Specifying | |
104 | .B "\-f lsb2msb" | |
105 | will force data to be written with the FillOrder tag set to | |
106 | .SM LSB2MSB , | |
107 | while | |
108 | .B "\-f msb2lsb" | |
109 | will force data to be written with the FillOrder tag set to | |
110 | .SM MSB2LSB . | |
111 | .TP | |
112 | .B \-t | |
113 | Set the threshold value for dithering. | |
114 | By default the threshold value is 128. | |
115 | .SH NOTES | |
116 | The dither algorithm is taken from the | |
117 | .BR tiffmedian (1) | |
118 | program (written by Paul Heckbert). | |
119 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
120 | .BR pal2rgb (1), | |
121 | .BR fax2tiff (1), | |
122 | .BR tiffinfo (1), | |
123 | .BR tiffcp (1), | |
124 | .BR tiff2bw (1), | |
125 | .BR libtiff (3TIFF) | |
126 | .PP | |
127 | Libtiff library home page: | |
128 | .BR http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/ |