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pnmtotiff(1) pnmtotiff(1)
NAME
pnmtotiff - convert a a portable anymap into a TIFF file
SYNOPSIS
pnmtotiff [-none|-packbits| -lzw|-g3|-g4] [-2d] [-fill]
[-predictor n] [-msb2lsb|-lsb2msb] [-rowsperstrip n] [pnm-
file]
DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable anymap as input. Produces a TIFF file as
output.
OPTIONS
By default, pnmtotiff creates a TIFF file with LZW com-
pression. This is your best bet most of the time. How-
ever, some TIFF readers can't deal with it. If you want
to try another compression scheme or tweak some of the
other even more obscure output options, there are a number
of flags to play with.
The -none, -packbits, -lzw, -g3, and -g4 options are used
to override the default and set the compression scheme
used in creating the output file. The CCITT Group 3 and
Group 4 compression algorithms can only be used with
bilevel data. The -2d and -fill options are meaningful
only with Group 3 compression: -2d requests 2-dimensional
encoding, while -fill requests that each encoded scanline
be zero-filled to a byte boundry. The -predictor option
is only meaningful with LZW compression: 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.
By default, pnmtotiff creates a TIFF file with msb-to-lsb
fill order. The -msb2lsb and -lsb2msb options are used to
override the default and set the fill order used in creat-
ing the file.
The -rowsperstrip option can be used to set the number of
rows (scanlines) in each strip of data in the output file.
By default, the output file has the number of rows per
strip set to a value that will ensure each strip is no
more than 8 kilobytes long.
BUGS
This program is not self-contained. To use it you must
fetch the TIFF Software package listed in the OTHER.SYS-
TEMS file and configure PBMPLUS to use libtiff. See PBM-
PLUS's Makefile for details on this configuration.
SEE ALSO
tifftopnm(1), pnm(5)
AUTHOR
Derived by Jef Poskanzer from ras2tiff.c, which is Copy-
right (c) 1990 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. Author: Patrick
J. Naughton (naughton@wind.sun.com).
13 January 1991 1
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