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- USAGE instructions for the Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software
- =================================================================
- This file describes usage of the JPEG conversion programs cjpeg and djpeg,
- as well as the utility programs jpegtran, rdjpgcom and wrjpgcom. (See
- the other documentation files if you wish to use the JPEG library within
- your own programs.)
- If you are on a Unix machine you may prefer to read the Unix-style manual
- pages in files cjpeg.1, djpeg.1, jpegtran.1, rdjpgcom.1, wrjpgcom.1.
- INTRODUCTION
- These programs implement JPEG image encoding, decoding, and transcoding.
- JPEG (pronounced "jay-peg") is a standardized compression method for
- full-color and grayscale images.
- GENERAL USAGE
- We provide two programs, cjpeg to compress an image file into JPEG format,
- and djpeg to decompress a JPEG file back into a conventional image format.
- On Unix-like systems, you say:
- cjpeg [switches] [imagefile] >jpegfile
- or
- djpeg [switches] [jpegfile] >imagefile
- The programs read the specified input file, or standard input if none is
- named. They always write to standard output (with trace/error messages to
- standard error). These conventions are handy for piping images between
- programs.
- On most non-Unix systems, you say:
- cjpeg [switches] imagefile jpegfile
- or
- djpeg [switches] jpegfile imagefile
- i.e., both the input and output files are named on the command line. This
- style is a little more foolproof, and it loses no functionality if you don't
- have pipes. (You can get this style on Unix too, if you prefer, by defining
- TWO_FILE_COMMANDLINE when you compile the programs; see install.txt.)
- You can also say:
- cjpeg [switches] -outfile jpegfile imagefile
- or
- djpeg [switches] -outfile imagefile jpegfile
- This syntax works on all systems, so it is useful for scripts.
- The currently supported image file formats are: PPM (PBMPLUS color format),
- PGM (PBMPLUS grayscale format), BMP, Targa, and RLE (Utah Raster Toolkit
- format). (RLE is supported only if the URT library is available, which it
- isn't on most non-Unix systems.) cjpeg recognizes the input image format
- automatically, with the exception of some Targa-format files. You have to
- tell djpeg which format to generate.
- JPEG files are in the standard JFIF file format. There are other,
- less widely used JPEG-based file formats, but we don't support them.
- All switch names may be abbreviated; for example, -grayscale may be written
- -gray or -gr. Most of the "basic" switches can be abbreviated to as little as
- one letter. Upper and lower case are equivalent (-BMP is the same as -bmp).
- British spellings are also accepted (e.g., -greyscale), though for brevity
- these are not mentioned below.
- CJPEG DETAILS
- The basic command line switches for cjpeg are:
- -quality N[,...] Scale quantization tables to adjust image quality.
- Quality is 0 (worst) to 100 (best); default is 75.
- (See below for more info.)
- -grayscale Create monochrome JPEG file from color input.
- Be sure to use this switch when compressing a grayscale
- BMP file, because cjpeg isn't bright enough to notice
- whether a BMP file uses only shades of gray. By
- saying -grayscale, you'll get a smaller JPEG file that
- takes less time to process.
- -rgb Create RGB JPEG file.
- Using this switch suppresses the conversion from RGB
- colorspace input to the default YCbCr JPEG colorspace.
- You can use this switch in combination with the
- -block N switch (see below) for lossless JPEG coding.
- See also the -rgb1 switch below.
- -optimize Perform optimization of entropy encoding parameters.
- Without this, default encoding parameters are used.
- -optimize usually makes the JPEG file a little smaller,
- but cjpeg runs somewhat slower and needs much more
- memory. Image quality and speed of decompression are
- unaffected by -optimize.
- -progressive Create progressive JPEG file (see below).
- -scale M/N Scale the output image by a factor M/N. Currently
- supported scale factors are M/N with all N from 1 to
- 16, where M is the destination DCT size, which is 8 by
- default (see -block N switch below).
- -targa Input file is Targa format. Targa files that contain
- an "identification" field will not be automatically
- recognized by cjpeg; for such files you must specify
- -targa to make cjpeg treat the input as Targa format.
- For most Targa files, you won't need this switch.
- The -quality switch lets you trade off compressed file size against quality of
- the reconstructed image: the higher the quality setting, the larger the JPEG
- file, and the closer the output image will be to the original input. Normally
- you want to use the lowest quality setting (smallest file) that decompresses
- into something visually indistinguishable from the original image. For this
- purpose the quality setting should be between 50 and 95; the default of 75 is
- often about right. If you see defects at -quality 75, then go up 5 or 10
- counts at a time until you are happy with the output image. (The optimal
- setting will vary from one image to another.)
- -quality 100 will generate a quantization table of all 1's, minimizing loss
- in the quantization step (but there is still information loss in subsampling,
- as well as roundoff error). This setting is mainly of interest for
- experimental purposes. Quality values above about 95 are NOT recommended for
- normal use; the compressed file size goes up dramatically for hardly any gain
- in output image quality.
- In the other direction, quality values below 50 will produce very small files
- of low image quality. Settings around 5 to 10 might be useful in preparing an
- index of a large image library, for example. Try -quality 2 (or so) for some
- amusing Cubist effects. (Note: quality values below about 25 generate 2-byte
- quantization tables, which are considered optional in the JPEG standard.
- cjpeg emits a warning message when you give such a quality value, because some
- other JPEG programs may be unable to decode the resulting file. Use -baseline
- if you need to ensure compatibility at low quality values.)
- The -quality option has been extended in IJG version 7 for support of separate
- quality settings for luminance and chrominance (or in general, for every
- provided quantization table slot). This feature is useful for high-quality
- applications which cannot accept the damage of color data by coarse
- subsampling settings. You can now easily reduce the color data amount more
- smoothly with finer control without separate subsampling. The resulting file
- is fully compliant with standard JPEG decoders.
- Note that the -quality ratings refer to the quantization table slots, and that
- the last value is replicated if there are more q-table slots than parameters.
- The default q-table slots are 0 for luminance and 1 for chrominance with
- default tables as given in the JPEG standard. This is compatible with the old
- behaviour in case that only one parameter is given, which is then used for
- both luminance and chrominance (slots 0 and 1). More or custom quantization
- tables can be set with -qtables and assigned to components with -qslots
- parameter (see the "wizard" switches below).
- CAUTION: You must explicitly add -sample 1x1 for efficient separate color
- quality selection, since the default value used by library is 2x2!
- The -progressive switch creates a "progressive JPEG" file. In this type of
- JPEG file, the data is stored in multiple scans of increasing quality. If the
- file is being transmitted over a slow communications link, the decoder can use
- the first scan to display a low-quality image very quickly, and can then
- improve the display with each subsequent scan. The final image is exactly
- equivalent to a standard JPEG file of the same quality setting, and the total
- file size is about the same --- often a little smaller.
- Switches for advanced users:
- -arithmetic Use arithmetic coding.
- CAUTION: arithmetic coded JPEG is not yet widely
- implemented, so many decoders will be unable to
- view an arithmetic coded JPEG file at all.
- -block N Set DCT block size. All N from 1 to 16 are possible.
- Default is 8 (baseline format).
- Larger values produce higher compression,
- smaller values produce higher quality
- (exact DCT stage possible with 1 or 2; with the
- default quality of 75 and default Luminance qtable
- the DCT+Quantization stage is lossless for N=1).
- CAUTION: An implementation of the JPEG SmartScale
- extension is required for this feature. SmartScale
- enabled JPEG is not yet widely implemented, so many
- decoders will be unable to view a SmartScale extended
- JPEG file at all.
- -rgb1 Create RGB JPEG file with reversible color transform.
- Works like the -rgb switch (see above) and inserts a
- simple reversible color transform into the processing
- which significantly improves the compression.
- Use this switch in combination with the -block N
- switch (see above) for lossless JPEG coding.
- CAUTION: A decoder with inverse color transform
- support is required for this feature. Reversible
- color transform support is not yet widely implemented,
- so many decoders will be unable to view a reversible
- color transformed JPEG file at all.
- -bgycc Create big gamut YCC JPEG file.
- In this type of encoding the color difference
- components are quantized further by a factor of 2
- compared to the normal Cb/Cr values, thus creating
- space to allow larger color values with higher
- saturation than the normal gamut limits to be encoded.
- In order to compensate for the loss of color fidelity
- compared to a normal YCC encoded file, the color
- quantization tables can be adjusted accordingly.
- For example, cjpeg -bgycc -quality 80,90 will give
- similar results as cjpeg -quality 80.
- CAUTION: For correct decompression a decoder with big
- gamut YCC support (JFIF version 2) is required.
- An old decoder may or may not display a big gamut YCC
- encoded JPEG file, depending on JFIF version check
- and corresponding warning/error configuration.
- In case of a granted decompression the old decoder
- will display the image with half saturated colors.
- -dct int Use integer DCT method (default).
- -dct fast Use fast integer DCT (less accurate).
- -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.
- -nosmooth Don't use high-quality downsampling.
- -restart N Emit a JPEG restart marker every N MCU rows, or every
- N MCU blocks if "B" is attached to the number.
- -restart 0 (the default) means no restart markers.
- -smooth N Smooth the input image to eliminate dithering noise.
- N, ranging from 1 to 100, indicates the strength of
- smoothing. 0 (the default) means no smoothing.
- -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, -max 4m selects 4000000 bytes. If more
- space is needed, temporary files will be used.
- -verbose Enable debug printout. More -v's give more printout.
- or -debug Also, version information is printed at startup.
- The -restart option inserts extra markers that allow a JPEG decoder to
- resynchronize after a transmission error. Without restart markers, any damage
- to a compressed file will usually ruin the image from the point of the error
- to the end of the image; with restart markers, the damage is usually confined
- to the portion of the image up to the next restart marker. Of course, the
- restart markers occupy extra space. We recommend -restart 1 for images that
- will be transmitted across unreliable networks such as Usenet.
- The -smooth option filters the input to eliminate fine-scale noise. This is
- often useful when converting dithered images to JPEG: a moderate smoothing
- factor of 10 to 50 gets rid of dithering patterns in the input file, resulting
- in a smaller JPEG file and a better-looking image. Too large a smoothing
- factor will visibly blur the image, however.
- Switches for wizards:
- -baseline Force baseline-compatible quantization tables to be
- generated. This clamps quantization values to 8 bits
- even at low quality settings. (This switch is poorly
- named, since it does not ensure that the output is
- actually baseline JPEG. For example, you can use
- -baseline and -progressive together.)
- -qtables file Use the quantization tables given in the specified
- text file.
- -qslots N[,...] Select which quantization table to use for each color
- component.
- -sample HxV[,...] Set JPEG sampling factors for each color component.
- -scans file Use the scan script given in the specified text file.
- The "wizard" switches are intended for experimentation with JPEG. If you
- don't know what you are doing, DON'T USE THEM. These switches are documented
- further in the file wizard.txt.
- DJPEG DETAILS
- The basic command line switches for djpeg are:
- -colors N Reduce image to at most N colors. This reduces the
- or -quantize N 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. (-colors is the recommended name, -quantize
- is provided only for backwards compatibility.)
- -fast Select recommended processing options for fast, low
- quality output. (The default options are chosen for
- highest quality output.) Currently, this is equivalent
- to "-dct fast -nosmooth -onepass -dither ordered".
- -grayscale Force grayscale output even if JPEG file is color.
- Useful for viewing on monochrome displays; also,
- djpeg runs noticeably faster in this mode.
- -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.
- -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, djpeg runs much faster when
- scaling down the output.
- -bmp Select BMP output format (Windows flavor). 8-bit
- colormapped format is emitted if -colors or -grayscale
- is specified, or if the JPEG file is grayscale;
- otherwise, 24-bit full-color format is emitted.
- -gif Select GIF output format. Since GIF does not support
- more than 256 colors, -colors 256 is assumed (unless
- you specify a smaller number of colors). If you
- specify -fast, the default number of colors is 216.
- -os2 Select BMP output format (OS/2 1.x flavor). 8-bit
- colormapped format is emitted if -colors or -grayscale
- is specified, or if the JPEG file is grayscale;
- otherwise, 24-bit full-color format is emitted.
- -pnm Select PBMPLUS (PPM/PGM) output format (this is the
- default format). PGM is emitted if the JPEG file is
- grayscale or if -grayscale is specified; otherwise
- PPM is emitted.
- -rle Select RLE output format. (Requires URT library.)
- -targa Select Targa output format. Grayscale format is
- emitted if the JPEG file is grayscale or if
- -grayscale is specified; otherwise, colormapped format
- is emitted if -colors is specified; otherwise, 24-bit
- full-color format is emitted.
- Switches for advanced users:
- -dct int Use integer DCT method (default).
- -dct fast Use fast integer DCT (less accurate).
- -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.
- -dither fs Use Floyd-Steinberg dithering in color quantization.
- -dither ordered Use ordered dithering in color quantization.
- -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 -onepass mode.
- -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 FILE must be a GIF
- or PPM file. This option overrides -colors and
- -onepass.
- -nosmooth Don't use high-quality upsampling.
- -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. -onepass is
- ignored unless you also say -colors N. Also,
- the one-pass method is always used for grayscale
- output (the two-pass method is no improvement then).
- -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, -max 4m selects 4000000 bytes. If more
- space is needed, temporary files will be used.
- -verbose Enable debug printout. More -v's give more printout.
- or -debug Also, version information is printed at startup.
- HINTS FOR CJPEG
- Color GIF files are not the ideal input for JPEG; JPEG is really intended for
- compressing full-color (24-bit) images. In particular, don't try to convert
- cartoons, line drawings, and other images that have only a few distinct
- colors. GIF works great on these, JPEG does not. If you want to convert a
- GIF to JPEG, you should experiment with cjpeg's -quality and -smooth options
- to get a satisfactory conversion. -smooth 10 or so is often helpful.
- Avoid running an image through a series of JPEG compression/decompression
- cycles. Image quality loss will accumulate; after ten or so cycles the image
- may be noticeably worse than it was after one cycle. It's best to use a
- lossless format while manipulating an image, then convert to JPEG format when
- you are ready to file the image away.
- The -optimize option to cjpeg is worth using when you are making a "final"
- version for posting or archiving. It's also a win when you are using low
- quality settings to make very small JPEG files; the percentage improvement
- is often a lot more than it is on larger files. (At present, -optimize
- mode is always selected when generating progressive JPEG files.)
- GIF input files are no longer supported, to avoid the Unisys LZW patent
- (now expired).
- (Conversion of GIF files to JPEG is usually a bad idea anyway.)
- HINTS FOR DJPEG
- To get a quick preview of an image, use the -grayscale and/or -scale switches.
- "-grayscale -scale 1/8" is the fastest case.
- Several options are available that trade off image quality to gain speed.
- "-fast" turns on the recommended settings.
- "-dct fast" and/or "-nosmooth" gain speed at a small sacrifice in quality.
- When producing a color-quantized image, "-onepass -dither ordered" is fast but
- much lower quality than the default behavior. "-dither none" may give
- acceptable results in two-pass mode, but is seldom tolerable in one-pass mode.
- If you are fortunate enough to have very fast floating point hardware,
- "-dct float" may be even faster than "-dct fast". But on most machines
- "-dct float" is slower than "-dct int"; in this case it is not worth using,
- because its theoretical accuracy advantage is too small to be significant
- in practice.
- Two-pass color quantization requires a good deal of memory; on MS-DOS machines
- it may run out of memory even with -maxmemory 0. In that case you can still
- decompress, with some loss of image quality, by specifying -onepass for
- one-pass quantization.
- To avoid the Unisys LZW patent (now expired), djpeg produces uncompressed GIF
- files. These are larger than they should be, but are readable by standard GIF
- decoders.
- HINTS FOR BOTH PROGRAMS
- If more space is needed than will fit in the available main memory (as
- determined by -maxmemory), temporary files will be used. (MS-DOS versions
- will try to get extended or expanded memory first.) The temporary files are
- often rather large: in typical cases they occupy three bytes per pixel, for
- example 3*800*600 = 1.44Mb for an 800x600 image. If you don't have enough
- free disk space, leave out -progressive and -optimize (for cjpeg) or specify
- -onepass (for djpeg).
- On MS-DOS, the temporary files are created in the directory named by the TMP
- or TEMP environment variable, or in the current directory if neither of those
- exist. Amiga implementations put the temp files in the directory named by
- JPEGTMP:, so be sure to assign JPEGTMP: to a disk partition with adequate free
- space.
- The default memory usage limit (-maxmemory) is set when the software is
- compiled. If you get an "insufficient memory" error, try specifying a smaller
- -maxmemory value, even -maxmemory 0 to use the absolute minimum space. You
- may want to recompile with a smaller default value if this happens often.
- On machines that have "environment" variables, you can define the environment
- variable JPEGMEM to set the default memory limit. The value is specified as
- described for the -maxmemory switch. JPEGMEM overrides the default value
- specified when the program was compiled, and itself is overridden by an
- explicit -maxmemory switch.
- On MS-DOS machines, -maxmemory is the amount of main (conventional) memory to
- use. (Extended or expanded memory is also used if available.) Most
- DOS-specific versions of this software do their own memory space estimation
- and do not need you to specify -maxmemory.
- JPEGTRAN
- jpegtran performs various useful transformations of JPEG files.
- It can translate the coded representation from one variant of JPEG to another,
- for example from baseline JPEG to progressive JPEG or vice versa. It can also
- perform some rearrangements of the image data, for example turning an image
- from landscape to portrait format by rotation. For EXIF files and JPEG files
- containing Exif data, you may prefer to use exiftran instead.
- jpegtran works by rearranging the compressed data (DCT coefficients), without
- ever fully decoding the image. Therefore, its transformations are lossless:
- there is no image degradation at all, which would not be true if you used
- djpeg followed by cjpeg to accomplish the same conversion. But by the same
- token, jpegtran cannot perform lossy operations such as changing the image
- quality. However, while the image data is losslessly transformed, metadata
- can be removed. See the -copy option for specifics.
- jpegtran uses a command line syntax similar to cjpeg or djpeg.
- On Unix-like systems, you say:
- jpegtran [switches] [inputfile] >outputfile
- On most non-Unix systems, you say:
- jpegtran [switches] inputfile outputfile
- where both the input and output files are JPEG files.
- To specify the coded JPEG representation used in the output file,
- jpegtran accepts a subset of the switches recognized by cjpeg:
- -optimize Perform optimization of entropy encoding parameters.
- -progressive Create progressive JPEG file.
- -arithmetic Use arithmetic coding.
- -restart N Emit a JPEG restart marker every N MCU rows, or every
- N MCU blocks if "B" is attached to the number.
- -scans file Use the scan script given in the specified text file.
- See the previous discussion of cjpeg for more details about these switches.
- If you specify none of these switches, you get a plain baseline-JPEG output
- file. The quality setting and so forth are determined by the input file.
- The image can be losslessly transformed by giving one of these switches:
- -flip horizontal Mirror image horizontally (left-right).
- -flip vertical Mirror image vertically (top-bottom).
- -rotate 90 Rotate image 90 degrees clockwise.
- -rotate 180 Rotate image 180 degrees.
- -rotate 270 Rotate image 270 degrees clockwise (or 90 ccw).
- -transpose Transpose image (across UL-to-LR axis).
- -transverse Transverse transpose (across UR-to-LL axis).
- The transpose transformation has no restrictions regarding image dimensions.
- The other transformations operate rather oddly if the image dimensions are not
- a multiple of the iMCU size (usually 8 or 16 pixels), because they can only
- transform complete blocks of DCT coefficient data in the desired way.
- jpegtran's default behavior when transforming an odd-size image is designed
- to preserve exact reversibility and mathematical consistency of the
- transformation set. As stated, transpose is able to flip the entire image
- area. Horizontal mirroring leaves any partial iMCU column at the right edge
- untouched, but is able to flip all rows of the image. Similarly, vertical
- mirroring leaves any partial iMCU row at the bottom edge untouched, but is
- able to flip all columns. The other transforms can be built up as sequences
- of transpose and flip operations; for consistency, their actions on edge
- pixels are defined to be the same as the end result of the corresponding
- transpose-and-flip sequence.
- For practical use, you may prefer to discard any untransformable edge pixels
- rather than having a strange-looking strip along the right and/or bottom edges
- of a transformed image. To do this, add the -trim switch:
- -trim Drop non-transformable edge blocks.
- Obviously, a transformation with -trim is not reversible, so strictly speaking
- jpegtran with this switch is not lossless. Also, the expected mathematical
- equivalences between the transformations no longer hold. For example,
- "-rot 270 -trim" trims only the bottom edge, but "-rot 90 -trim" followed by
- "-rot 180 -trim" trims both edges.
- If you are only interested in perfect transformation, add the -perfect switch:
- -perfect Fails with an error if the transformation is not
- perfect.
- For example you may want to do
- jpegtran -rot 90 -perfect foo.jpg || djpeg foo.jpg | pnmflip -r90 | cjpeg
- to do a perfect rotation if available or an approximated one if not.
- We also offer a lossless-crop option, which discards data outside a given
- image region but losslessly preserves what is inside. Like the rotate and
- flip transforms, lossless crop is restricted by the current JPEG format: the
- upper left corner of the selected region must fall on an iMCU boundary. If
- this does not hold for the given crop parameters, we silently move the upper
- left corner up and/or left to make it so, simultaneously increasing the
- region dimensions to keep the lower right crop corner unchanged. (Thus, the
- output image covers at least the requested region, but may cover more.)
- The adjustment of the region dimensions may be optionally disabled by
- attaching an 'f' character ("force") to the width or height number.
- The image can be losslessly cropped by giving the switch:
- -crop WxH+X+Y Crop to a rectangular subarea of width W, height H
- starting at point X,Y.
- A complementary lossless-wipe option is provided to discard (gray out) data
- inside a given image region while losslessly preserving what is outside:
- -wipe WxH+X+Y Wipe (gray out) a rectangular subarea of
- width W, height H starting at point X,Y.
- Other not-strictly-lossless transformation switches are:
- -grayscale Force grayscale output.
- This option discards the chrominance channels if the input image is YCbCr
- (ie, a standard color JPEG), resulting in a grayscale JPEG file. The
- luminance channel is preserved exactly, so this is a better method of reducing
- to grayscale than decompression, conversion, and recompression. This switch
- is particularly handy for fixing a monochrome picture that was mistakenly
- encoded as a color JPEG. (In such a case, the space savings from getting rid
- of the near-empty chroma channels won't be large; but the decoding time for
- a grayscale JPEG is substantially less than that for a color JPEG.)
- -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. CAUTION: An implementation of the JPEG SmartScale
- extension is required for this feature. SmartScale enabled JPEG is not yet
- widely implemented, so many decoders will be unable to view a SmartScale
- extended JPEG file at all.
- jpegtran also recognizes these switches that control what to do with "extra"
- markers, such as comment blocks:
- -copy none Copy no extra markers from source file.
- This setting suppresses all comments
- and other metadata in the source file.
- -copy comments Copy only comment markers.
- This setting copies comments from the source file,
- but discards any other metadata.
- -copy all Copy all extra markers. This setting preserves
- metadata found in the source file, such as JFIF
- thumbnails, Exif data, and Photoshop settings.
- In some files these extra markers can be sizable.
- Note that this option will copy thumbnails as-is;
- they will not be transformed.
- The default behavior is -copy comments. (Note: in IJG releases v6 and v6a,
- jpegtran always did the equivalent of -copy none.)
- Additional switches recognized by jpegtran are:
- -outfile filename
- -maxmemory N
- -verbose
- -debug
- These work the same as in cjpeg or djpeg.
- THE COMMENT UTILITIES
- The JPEG standard allows "comment" (COM) blocks to occur within a JPEG file.
- Although the standard doesn't actually define what COM blocks are for, they
- are widely used to hold user-supplied text strings. This lets you add
- annotations, titles, index terms, etc to your JPEG files, and later retrieve
- them as text. COM blocks do not interfere with the image stored in the JPEG
- file. The maximum size of a COM block is 64K, but you can have as many of
- them as you like in one JPEG file.
- We provide two utility programs to display COM block contents and add COM
- blocks to a JPEG file.
- rdjpgcom searches a JPEG file and prints the contents of any COM blocks on
- standard output. The command line syntax is
- rdjpgcom [-raw] [-verbose] [inputfilename]
- The switch "-raw" (or just "-r") causes rdjpgcom to also output non-printable
- characters in comments, which are normally escaped for security reasons.
- The switch "-verbose" (or just "-v") causes rdjpgcom to also display the JPEG
- image dimensions. If you omit the input file name from the command line,
- the JPEG file is read from standard input. (This may not work on some
- operating systems, if binary data can't be read from stdin.)
- wrjpgcom adds a COM block, containing text you provide, to a JPEG file.
- Ordinarily, the COM block is added after any existing COM blocks, but you
- can delete the old COM blocks if you wish. wrjpgcom produces a new JPEG
- file; it does not modify the input file. DO NOT try to overwrite the input
- file by directing wrjpgcom's output back into it; on most systems this will
- just destroy your file.
- The command line syntax for wrjpgcom is similar to cjpeg's. On Unix-like
- systems, it is
- wrjpgcom [switches] [inputfilename]
- The output file is written to standard output. The input file comes from
- the named file, or from standard input if no input file is named.
- On most non-Unix systems, the syntax is
- wrjpgcom [switches] inputfilename outputfilename
- where both input and output file names must be given explicitly.
- wrjpgcom understands three switches:
- -replace Delete any existing COM blocks from the file.
- -comment "Comment text" Supply new COM text on command line.
- -cfile name Read text for new COM block from named file.
- (Switch names can be abbreviated.) If you have only one line of comment text
- to add, you can provide it on the command line with -comment. The comment
- text must be surrounded with quotes so that it is treated as a single
- argument. Longer comments can be read from a text file.
- If you give neither -comment nor -cfile, then wrjpgcom will read the comment
- text from standard input. (In this case an input image file name MUST be
- supplied, so that the source JPEG file comes from somewhere else.) You can
- enter multiple lines, up to 64KB worth. Type an end-of-file indicator
- (usually control-D or control-Z) to terminate the comment text entry.
- wrjpgcom will not add a COM block if the provided comment string is empty.
- Therefore -replace -comment "" can be used to delete all COM blocks from a
- file.
- These utility programs do not depend on the IJG JPEG library. In
- particular, the source code for rdjpgcom is intended as an illustration of
- the minimum amount of code required to parse a JPEG file header correctly.
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