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- .TH DJPEG 1 "26 July 2015"
- .SH NAME
- djpeg \- decompress a JPEG file to an image file
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .B djpeg
- [
- .I options
- ]
- [
- .I filename
- ]
- .LP
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .LP
- .B djpeg
- decompresses the named JPEG file, or the standard input if no file is named,
- and produces an image file on the standard output. PBMPLUS (PPM/PGM), BMP,
- GIF, Targa, or RLE (Utah Raster Toolkit) output format can be selected.
- (RLE is supported only if the URT library is available.)
- .SH OPTIONS
- All switch names may be abbreviated; for example,
- .B \-grayscale
- may be written
- .B \-gray
- or
- .BR \-gr .
- Most of the "basic" switches can be abbreviated to as little as one letter.
- Upper and lower case are equivalent (thus
- .B \-BMP
- is the same as
- .BR \-bmp ).
- British spellings are also accepted (e.g.,
- .BR \-greyscale ),
- though for brevity these are not mentioned below.
- .PP
- The basic switches are:
- .TP
- .BI \-colors " N"
- Reduce image to at most N colors. This reduces the number of colors used in
- the output image, so that it can be displayed on a colormapped display or
- stored in a colormapped file format. For example, if you have an 8-bit
- display, you'd need to reduce to 256 or fewer colors.
- .TP
- .BI \-quantize " N"
- Same as
- .BR \-colors .
- .B \-colors
- is the recommended name,
- .B \-quantize
- is provided only for backwards compatibility.
- .TP
- .B \-fast
- Select recommended processing options for fast, low quality output. (The
- default options are chosen for highest quality output.) Currently, this is
- equivalent to \fB\-dct fast \-nosmooth \-onepass \-dither ordered\fR.
- .TP
- .B \-grayscale
- Force grayscale output even if JPEG file is color.
- Useful for viewing on monochrome displays; also,
- .B djpeg
- runs noticeably faster in this mode.
- .TP
- .B \-rgb
- Force RGB output even if JPEG file is grayscale.
- This is provided to support applications that don't
- want to cope with grayscale as a separate case.
- .TP
- .BI \-scale " M/N"
- Scale the output image by a factor M/N. Currently supported scale factors are
- M/N with all M from 1 to 16, where N is the source DCT size, which is 8 for
- baseline JPEG. If the /N part is omitted, then M specifies the DCT scaled
- size to be applied on the given input. For baseline JPEG this is equivalent
- to M/8 scaling, since the source DCT size for baseline JPEG is 8.
- Scaling is handy if the image is larger than your screen; also,
- .B djpeg
- runs much faster when scaling down the output.
- .TP
- .B \-bmp
- Select BMP output format (Windows flavor). 8-bit colormapped format is
- emitted if
- .B \-colors
- or
- .B \-grayscale
- is specified, or if the JPEG file is grayscale; otherwise, 24-bit full-color
- format is emitted.
- .TP
- .B \-gif
- Select GIF output format. Since GIF does not support more than 256 colors,
- .B \-colors 256
- is assumed (unless you specify a smaller number of colors).
- .TP
- .B \-os2
- Select BMP output format (OS/2 1.x flavor). 8-bit colormapped format is
- emitted if
- .B \-colors
- or
- .B \-grayscale
- is specified, or if the JPEG file is grayscale; otherwise, 24-bit full-color
- format is emitted.
- .TP
- .B \-pnm
- Select PBMPLUS (PPM/PGM) output format (this is the default format).
- PGM is emitted if the JPEG file is grayscale or if
- .B \-grayscale
- is specified; otherwise PPM is emitted.
- .TP
- .B \-rle
- Select RLE output format. (Requires URT library.)
- .TP
- .B \-targa
- Select Targa output format. Grayscale format is emitted if the JPEG file is
- grayscale or if
- .B \-grayscale
- is specified; otherwise, colormapped format is emitted if
- .B \-colors
- is specified; otherwise, 24-bit full-color format is emitted.
- .PP
- Switches for advanced users:
- .TP
- .B \-dct int
- Use integer DCT method (default).
- .TP
- .B \-dct fast
- Use fast integer DCT (less accurate).
- .TP
- .B \-dct float
- Use floating-point DCT method.
- The float method is very slightly more accurate than the int method, but is
- much slower unless your machine has very fast floating-point hardware. Also
- note that results of the floating-point method may vary slightly across
- machines, while the integer methods should give the same results everywhere.
- The fast integer method is much less accurate than the other two.
- .TP
- .B \-dither fs
- Use Floyd-Steinberg dithering in color quantization.
- .TP
- .B \-dither ordered
- Use ordered dithering in color quantization.
- .TP
- .B \-dither none
- Do not use dithering in color quantization.
- By default, Floyd-Steinberg dithering is applied when quantizing colors; this
- is slow but usually produces the best results. Ordered dither is a compromise
- between speed and quality; no dithering is fast but usually looks awful. Note
- that these switches have no effect unless color quantization is being done.
- Ordered dither is only available in
- .B \-onepass
- mode.
- .TP
- .BI \-map " file"
- Quantize to the colors used in the specified image file. This is useful for
- producing multiple files with identical color maps, or for forcing a
- predefined set of colors to be used. The
- .I file
- must be a GIF or PPM file. This option overrides
- .B \-colors
- and
- .BR \-onepass .
- .TP
- .B \-nosmooth
- Don't use high-quality upsampling.
- .TP
- .B \-onepass
- Use one-pass instead of two-pass color quantization. The one-pass method is
- faster and needs less memory, but it produces a lower-quality image.
- .B \-onepass
- is ignored unless you also say
- .B \-colors
- .IR N .
- Also, the one-pass method is always used for grayscale output (the two-pass
- method is no improvement then).
- .TP
- .BI \-maxmemory " N"
- Set limit for amount of memory to use in processing large images. Value is
- in thousands of bytes, or millions of bytes if "M" is attached to the
- number. For example,
- .B \-max 4m
- selects 4000000 bytes. If more space is needed, temporary files will be used.
- .TP
- .BI \-outfile " name"
- Send output image to the named file, not to standard output.
- .TP
- .B \-verbose
- Enable debug printout. More
- .BR \-v 's
- give more output. Also, version information is printed at startup.
- .TP
- .B \-debug
- Same as
- .BR \-verbose .
- .SH EXAMPLES
- .LP
- This example decompresses the JPEG file foo.jpg, quantizes it to
- 256 colors, and saves the output in 8-bit BMP format in foo.bmp:
- .IP
- .B djpeg \-colors 256 \-bmp
- .I foo.jpg
- .B >
- .I foo.bmp
- .SH HINTS
- To get a quick preview of an image, use the
- .B \-grayscale
- and/or
- .B \-scale
- switches.
- .B \-grayscale \-scale 1/8
- is the fastest case.
- .PP
- Several options are available that trade off image quality to gain speed.
- .B \-fast
- turns on the recommended settings.
- .PP
- .B \-dct fast
- and/or
- .B \-nosmooth
- gain speed at a small sacrifice in quality.
- When producing a color-quantized image,
- .B \-onepass \-dither ordered
- is fast but much lower quality than the default behavior.
- .B \-dither none
- may give acceptable results in two-pass mode, but is seldom tolerable in
- one-pass mode.
- .PP
- If you are fortunate enough to have very fast floating point hardware,
- \fB\-dct float\fR may be even faster than \fB\-dct fast\fR. But on most
- machines \fB\-dct float\fR is slower than \fB\-dct int\fR; in this case it is
- not worth using, because its theoretical accuracy advantage is too small to be
- significant in practice.
- .SH ENVIRONMENT
- .TP
- .B JPEGMEM
- If this environment variable is set, its value is the default memory limit.
- The value is specified as described for the
- .B \-maxmemory
- switch.
- .B JPEGMEM
- overrides the default value specified when the program was compiled, and
- itself is overridden by an explicit
- .BR \-maxmemory .
- .SH SEE ALSO
- .BR cjpeg (1),
- .BR jpegtran (1),
- .BR rdjpgcom (1),
- .BR wrjpgcom (1)
- .br
- .BR ppm (5),
- .BR pgm (5)
- .br
- Wallace, Gregory K. "The JPEG Still Picture Compression Standard",
- Communications of the ACM, April 1991 (vol. 34, no. 4), pp. 30-44.
- .SH AUTHOR
- Independent JPEG Group
- .SH BUGS
- To avoid the Unisys LZW patent (now expired),
- .B djpeg
- produces uncompressed GIF files. These are larger than they should be, but
- are readable by standard GIF decoders.
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