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diff --git a/man/ppm2tiff.1 b/man/ppm2tiff.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..06e7bd3f --- /dev/null +++ b/man/ppm2tiff.1 @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +.\" $Header: /cvs/maptools/cvsroot/libtiff/man/ppm2tiff.1,v 1.1 1999-07-27 21:50:28 mike Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Sam Leffler +.\" Copyright (c) 1991-1997 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 PPM2TIFF 1 "October 15, 1995" +.SH NAME +ppm2tiff \- create a +.SM TIFF +file from a +.SM PPM +image file +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B ppm2tiff +[ +.I options +] [ +.I input.ppm +] +.I output.tif +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I ppm2tiff +converts a file in the +.SM PPM +image format to +.SM TIFF. +By default, the +.SM TIFF +image is created with data samples packed (\c +.IR PlanarConfiguration =1), +compressed with the Lempel-Ziv & Welch algorithm (\c +.IR Compression =5), +and with each strip no more than 8 kilobytes. +These characteristics can be overriden, or explicitly specified +with the options described below +.PP +If the +.SM PPM +file contains greyscale data, then the +.I PhotometricInterpretation +tag is set to 1 (min-is-black), +otherwise it is set to 2 (RGB). +.PP +If no +.SM PPM +file is specified on the command line, +.I ppm2tiff +will read from the standard input. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.B \-c +Specify a compression scheme to use when writing image data: +.B "\-c none" +for no compression, +.B "-c packbits" +for the PackBits compression algorithm, +.B "-c jpeg" +for the baseline JPEG compression algorithm, +.B "-c zip +for the Deflate compression algorithm, +and +.B "\-c lzw" +for Lempel-Ziv & Welch compression (the default). +.TP +.B \-r +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. +.TP +.B \-R +Mark the resultant image to have the specified +X and Y resolution (in dots/inch). +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IR tiffinfo (1), +.IR tiffcp (1), +.IR tiffmedian (1), +.IR libtiff (3) |