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<!-- Creator : groff version 1.18.1 --> <!-- CreationDate: Sat Feb 24 18:37:19 2007 --> <html> <head> <meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org"> <meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"> <title>GIF2TIFF</title> </head> <body> <h1 align=center>GIF2TIFF</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="#BUGS">BUGS</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>gif2tiff − create a <small>TIFF</small> file from a GIF87 format image 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>gif2tiff</b> [ <i>options</i> ] <i>input.gif 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>Gif2tiff</i> converts a file in the GIF87 format to <small>TIFF.</small> The <small>TIFF</small> image is created as a palette image, with samples compressed with the Lempel-Ziv & Welch algorithm (<i>Compression</i>=5). These characteristics can overridden, or explicitly specified with the options described below.</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="10%"></td> <td width="3%"> <p><b>−c</b></p> </td> <td width="5%"></td> <td width="80%"> <p>Specify a compression scheme to use when writing image data: <b>−c none</b> for no compression, <b>−c packbits</b> for the PackBits compression algorithm, <b>−c zip</b> for the Deflate compression algorithm, and <b>−c lzw</b> for Lempel-Ziv & Welch (the default).</p> </td> <td width="0%"> </td> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="3%"> <p><b>−r</b></p> </td> <td width="5%"></td> <td width="80%"> <p>Write data with a specified number of rows per strip; by default the number of rows/strip is selected so that each strip is approximately 8 kilobytes.</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>The program is based on Paul Haeberli’s <i>fromgif</i> program which, in turn, is based on Marcel J.E. Mol’s GIF reader.</p> </td> </table> <a name="BUGS"></a> <h2>BUGS</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>Should have more options to control output format.</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>tiffmedian</b>(1), <b>libtiff</b>(3)</p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p>Libtiff library home page: <b>http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/</b></p> </td> </table> <hr> </body> </html>