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27 <p>tiff2rgba
− convert a
<small>TIFF
</small> image to
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39 <p><b>tiff2rgba
</b> [
<i>options
</i> ]
<i>input.tif
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51 <p><i>Tiff2rgba
</i> converts a wide variety of TIFF images
52 into an RGBA TIFF image. This includes the ability to
53 translate different color spaces and photometric
54 interpretation into RGBA, support for alpha blending, and
55 translation of many different bit depths into a
32bit RGBA
58 <p>Internally this program is implemented using the
59 <i>TIFFReadRGBAImage()
</i> function, and it suffers any
60 limitations of that image. This includes limited support for
61 > 8 BitsPerSample images, and flaws with some esoteric
62 combinations of BitsPerSample, photometric interpretation,
63 block organization and planar configuration.
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65 <p>The generated images are stripped images with four
66 samples per pixel (red, green, blue and alpha) or if the
67 <b>−n
</b> flag is used, three samples per pixel (red,
68 green, and blue). The resulting images are always planar
69 configuration contiguous. For this reason, this program is a
70 useful utility for transform exotic TIFF files into a form
71 ingestible by almost any TIFF supporting software.
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83 <p><b>−c
</b></p>
88 <p>Specify a compression scheme to use when writing image
89 data:
<b>−c none
</b> for no compression (the default),
90 <b>−c packbits
</b> for the PackBits compression
91 algorithm,
<b>−c zip
</b> for the Deflate compression
92 algorithm,
<b>−c jpeg
</b> for the JPEG compression
93 algorithm, and
<b>−c lzw
</b> for Lempel-Ziv
&
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102 <p><b>−r
</b></p>
107 <p>Write data with a specified number of rows per strip; by
108 default the number of rows/strip is selected so that each
109 strip is approximately
8 kilobytes.
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117 <p><b>−b
</b></p>
122 <p>Process the image one block (strip/tile) at a time
123 instead of by reading the whole image into memory at once.
124 This may be necessary for very large images on systems with
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133 <p><b>−n
</b></p>
138 <p>Drop the alpha component from the output file, producing
139 a pure RGB file. Currently this does not work if the
140 <b>−b
</b> flag is also in effect.
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153 <p><b>tiff2bw
</b>(
1),
<b>TIFFReadRGBAImage
</b>(
3t),
154 <b>libtiff
</b>(
3)
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156 <p>Libtiff library home page:
157 <b>http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/
</b></p>