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diff --git a/man/tiffgt.1 b/man/tiffgt.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..52bd0e61 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/tiffgt.1 @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +.\" $Header: /usr/people/sam/tiff/man/RCS/tiffgt.1,v 1.18 1995/07/07 23:29:04 sam Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Sam Leffler +.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Silicon Graphics, Inc. +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and +.\" its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided +.\" that (i) the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in +.\" all copies of the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names of +.\" Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or +.\" publicity relating to the software without the specific, prior written +.\" permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, +.\" EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY +.\" WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. +.\" +.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL SAM LEFFLER OR SILICON GRAPHICS BE LIABLE FOR +.\" ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, +.\" OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, +.\" WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF +.\" LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE +.\" OF THIS SOFTWARE. +.\" +.if n .po 0 +.TH TIFFGT 1 "September 26, 1994" +.SH NAME +tiffgt \- display an image stored in a +.SM TIFF +file (Silicon Graphics version) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B tiffgt +[ +.I options +] +.I input.tif +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I tiffgt +displays an image stored in a file with the +Tag Image File Format, Revision 6.0. +The image is placed in a fixed size window that the +user must position on the display. +If the display has fewer than 24 bitplanes, or if the +image does not warrant full color, then +.SM RGB +color values are mapped to the closest values that exist in +the colormap (this is done using the +.I rgbi +routine found in the graphics utility library +.BR \-lgutil .) +.PP +.I tiffgt +correctly handles files with any of the following characteristics: +.sp .5 +.in +0.5i +.ta \w'\fIPhotometricInterpretation\fP 'u +.nf +BitsPerSample 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 +SamplesPerPixel 1, 3, 4 (the 4th sample is ignored) +PhotometricInterpretation 0 (min-is-white), 1 (min-is-black), 2 (RGB), 3 (palette), 6 (YCbCr) +PlanarConfiguration 1 (contiguous), 2 (separate) +Orientation 1 (top-left), 4 (bottom-left) +.fi +.in -0.5i +.sp .5 +Data may be organized as strips or tiles and may be +compressed with any of the compression algorithms supported +by the +.IR libtiff (3) +library. +.PP +For palette images (\c +.IR PhotomatricInterpretation =3), +.I tiffgt +inspects the colormap values and assumes either 16-bit +or 8-bit values according to the maximum value. +That is, if no colormap entry greater than 255 is found, +.I tiffgt +assumes the colormap has only 8-bit values; otherwise +it assumes 16-bit values. +This inspection is done to handle old images written by +previous (incorrect) versions of +.IR libtiff . +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.B \-c +Force image display in a colormap window. +.TP +.B \-d +Specify an image to display by directory number. +By default the first image in the file is displayed. +Directories are numbered starting at zero. +.TP +.B \-f +Force +.I tiffgt +to run as a foreground process. +By default +.I tiffgt +will place itself in the background once it has opened the +requested image file. +.TP +.B \-l +Force the presumed bit ordering to be +.SM LSB +to +.SM MSB. +.TP +.B \-m +Force the presumed bit ordering to be +.SM MSB +to +.SM LSB. +.TP +.B \-o +Specify an image to display by directory offset. +By default the first image in the file is displayed. +Directories offsets may be specified using C-style syntax; +i.e. a leading ``0x'' for hexadecimal and a leading ``0'' for octal. +.TP +.B \-r +Force image display in a full color window. +.TP +.B \-s +Stop on the first read error. +By default all errors in the input data are ignored and +.I tiffgt +does it's best to display as much of an image as possible. +.TP +.B \-v +Place information in the title bar describing +what type of window (full color or colormap) is being +used, the name of the input file, and the directory +index of the image (if non-zero). +By default, the window type is not shown in the title bar. +.SH BUGS +Images wider and taller than the display are silently truncated to avoid +crashing old versions of the window manager. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IR tiffdump (1), +.IR tiffinfo (1), +.IR tiffcp (1), +.IR libtiff (3) |