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  1. .TH JPEGTRAN 1 "20 September 2015"
  2. .SH NAME
  3. jpegtran \- lossless transformation of JPEG files
  4. .SH SYNOPSIS
  5. .B jpegtran
  6. [
  7. .I options
  8. ]
  9. [
  10. .I filename
  11. ]
  12. .LP
  13. .SH DESCRIPTION
  14. .LP
  15. .B jpegtran
  16. performs various useful transformations of JPEG files.
  17. It can translate the coded representation from one variant of JPEG to another,
  18. for example from baseline JPEG to progressive JPEG or vice versa. It can also
  19. perform some rearrangements of the image data, for example turning an image
  20. from landscape to portrait format by rotation.
  21. .PP
  22. For EXIF files and JPEG files containing Exif data, you may prefer to use
  23. .B exiftran
  24. instead.
  25. .PP
  26. .B jpegtran
  27. works by rearranging the compressed data (DCT coefficients), without
  28. ever fully decoding the image. Therefore, its transformations are lossless:
  29. there is no image degradation at all, which would not be true if you used
  30. .B djpeg
  31. followed by
  32. .B cjpeg
  33. to accomplish the same conversion. But by the same token,
  34. .B jpegtran
  35. cannot perform lossy operations such as changing the image quality. However,
  36. while the image data is losslessly transformed, metadata can be removed. See
  37. the
  38. .B \-copy
  39. option for specifics.
  40. .PP
  41. .B jpegtran
  42. reads the named JPEG/JFIF file, or the standard input if no file is
  43. named, and produces a JPEG/JFIF file on the standard output.
  44. .SH OPTIONS
  45. All switch names may be abbreviated; for example,
  46. .B \-optimize
  47. may be written
  48. .B \-opt
  49. or
  50. .BR \-o .
  51. Upper and lower case are equivalent.
  52. British spellings are also accepted (e.g.,
  53. .BR \-optimise ),
  54. though for brevity these are not mentioned below.
  55. .PP
  56. To specify the coded JPEG representation used in the output file,
  57. .B jpegtran
  58. accepts a subset of the switches recognized by
  59. .BR cjpeg :
  60. .TP
  61. .B \-optimize
  62. Perform optimization of entropy encoding parameters.
  63. .TP
  64. .B \-progressive
  65. Create progressive JPEG file.
  66. .TP
  67. .BI \-restart " N"
  68. Emit a JPEG restart marker every N MCU rows, or every N MCU blocks if "B" is
  69. attached to the number.
  70. .TP
  71. .B \-arithmetic
  72. Use arithmetic coding.
  73. .TP
  74. .BI \-scans " file"
  75. Use the scan script given in the specified text file.
  76. .PP
  77. See
  78. .BR cjpeg (1)
  79. for more details about these switches.
  80. If you specify none of these switches, you get a plain baseline-JPEG output
  81. file. The quality setting and so forth are determined by the input file.
  82. .PP
  83. The image can be losslessly transformed by giving one of these switches:
  84. .TP
  85. .B \-flip horizontal
  86. Mirror image horizontally (left-right).
  87. .TP
  88. .B \-flip vertical
  89. Mirror image vertically (top-bottom).
  90. .TP
  91. .B \-rotate 90
  92. Rotate image 90 degrees clockwise.
  93. .TP
  94. .B \-rotate 180
  95. Rotate image 180 degrees.
  96. .TP
  97. .B \-rotate 270
  98. Rotate image 270 degrees clockwise (or 90 ccw).
  99. .TP
  100. .B \-transpose
  101. Transpose image (across UL-to-LR axis).
  102. .TP
  103. .B \-transverse
  104. Transverse transpose (across UR-to-LL axis).
  105. .IP
  106. The transpose transformation has no restrictions regarding image dimensions.
  107. The other transformations operate rather oddly if the image dimensions are not
  108. a multiple of the iMCU size (usually 8 or 16 pixels), because they can only
  109. transform complete blocks of DCT coefficient data in the desired way.
  110. .IP
  111. .BR jpegtran 's
  112. default behavior when transforming an odd-size image is designed
  113. to preserve exact reversibility and mathematical consistency of the
  114. transformation set. As stated, transpose is able to flip the entire image
  115. area. Horizontal mirroring leaves any partial iMCU column at the right edge
  116. untouched, but is able to flip all rows of the image. Similarly, vertical
  117. mirroring leaves any partial iMCU row at the bottom edge untouched, but is
  118. able to flip all columns. The other transforms can be built up as sequences
  119. of transpose and flip operations; for consistency, their actions on edge
  120. pixels are defined to be the same as the end result of the corresponding
  121. transpose-and-flip sequence.
  122. .IP
  123. For practical use, you may prefer to discard any untransformable edge pixels
  124. rather than having a strange-looking strip along the right and/or bottom edges
  125. of a transformed image. To do this, add the
  126. .B \-trim
  127. switch:
  128. .TP
  129. .B \-trim
  130. Drop non-transformable edge blocks.
  131. .IP
  132. Obviously, a transformation with
  133. .B \-trim
  134. is not reversible, so strictly speaking
  135. .B jpegtran
  136. with this switch is not lossless. Also, the expected mathematical
  137. equivalences between the transformations no longer hold. For example,
  138. .B \-rot 270 -trim
  139. trims only the bottom edge, but
  140. .B \-rot 90 -trim
  141. followed by
  142. .B \-rot 180 -trim
  143. trims both edges.
  144. .IP
  145. If you are only interested in perfect transformation, add the
  146. .B \-perfect
  147. switch:
  148. .TP
  149. .B \-perfect
  150. Fails with an error if the transformation is not perfect.
  151. .IP
  152. For example you may want to do
  153. .IP
  154. .B (jpegtran \-rot 90 -perfect
  155. .I foo.jpg
  156. .B || djpeg
  157. .I foo.jpg
  158. .B | pnmflip \-r90 | cjpeg)
  159. .IP
  160. to do a perfect rotation if available or an approximated one if not.
  161. .PP
  162. We also offer a lossless-crop option, which discards data outside a given
  163. image region but losslessly preserves what is inside. Like the rotate and
  164. flip transforms, lossless crop is restricted by the current JPEG format: the
  165. upper left corner of the selected region must fall on an iMCU boundary. If
  166. this does not hold for the given crop parameters, we silently move the upper
  167. left corner up and/or left to make it so, simultaneously increasing the
  168. region dimensions to keep the lower right crop corner unchanged. (Thus, the
  169. output image covers at least the requested region, but may cover more.)
  170. The adjustment of the region dimensions may be optionally disabled by
  171. attaching an 'f' character ("force") to the width or height number.
  172. The image can be losslessly cropped by giving the switch:
  173. .TP
  174. .B \-crop WxH+X+Y
  175. Crop to a rectangular subarea of width W, height H starting at point X,Y.
  176. .PP
  177. A complementary lossless-wipe option is provided to discard (gray out) data
  178. inside a given image region while losslessly preserving what is outside:
  179. .TP
  180. .B \-wipe WxH+X+Y
  181. Wipe (gray out) a rectangular subarea of width W, height H starting at point
  182. X,Y.
  183. .PP
  184. Other not-strictly-lossless transformation switches are:
  185. .TP
  186. .B \-grayscale
  187. Force grayscale output.
  188. .IP
  189. This option discards the chrominance channels if the input image is YCbCr
  190. (ie, a standard color JPEG), resulting in a grayscale JPEG file. The
  191. luminance channel is preserved exactly, so this is a better method of reducing
  192. to grayscale than decompression, conversion, and recompression. This switch
  193. is particularly handy for fixing a monochrome picture that was mistakenly
  194. encoded as a color JPEG. (In such a case, the space savings from getting rid
  195. of the near-empty chroma channels won't be large; but the decoding time for
  196. a grayscale JPEG is substantially less than that for a color JPEG.)
  197. .TP
  198. .BI \-scale " M/N"
  199. Scale the output image by a factor M/N.
  200. .IP
  201. Currently supported scale factors are M/N with all M from 1 to 16, where N is
  202. the source DCT size, which is 8 for baseline JPEG. If the /N part is omitted,
  203. then M specifies the DCT scaled size to be applied on the given input. For
  204. baseline JPEG this is equivalent to M/8 scaling, since the source DCT size
  205. for baseline JPEG is 8.
  206. .B Caution:
  207. An implementation of the JPEG SmartScale extension is required for this
  208. feature. SmartScale enabled JPEG is not yet widely implemented, so many
  209. decoders will be unable to view a SmartScale extended JPEG file at all.
  210. .PP
  211. .B jpegtran
  212. also recognizes these switches that control what to do with "extra" markers,
  213. such as comment blocks:
  214. .TP
  215. .B \-copy none
  216. Copy no extra markers from source file. This setting suppresses all
  217. comments and other metadata in the source file.
  218. .TP
  219. .B \-copy comments
  220. Copy only comment markers. This setting copies comments from the source file,
  221. but discards any other metadata.
  222. .TP
  223. .B \-copy all
  224. Copy all extra markers. This setting preserves metadata
  225. found in the source file, such as JFIF thumbnails, Exif data, and Photoshop
  226. settings. In some files these extra markers can be sizable. Note that this
  227. option will copy thumbnails as-is; they will not be transformed.
  228. .IP
  229. The default behavior is
  230. .BR "\-copy comments" .
  231. (Note: in IJG releases v6 and v6a,
  232. .B jpegtran
  233. always did the equivalent of
  234. .BR "\-copy none" .)
  235. .PP
  236. Additional switches recognized by jpegtran are:
  237. .TP
  238. .BI \-maxmemory " N"
  239. Set limit for amount of memory to use in processing large images. Value is
  240. in thousands of bytes, or millions of bytes if "M" is attached to the
  241. number. For example,
  242. .B \-max 4m
  243. selects 4000000 bytes. If more space is needed, temporary files will be used.
  244. .TP
  245. .BI \-outfile " name"
  246. Send output image to the named file, not to standard output.
  247. .TP
  248. .B \-verbose
  249. Enable debug printout. More
  250. .BR \-v 's
  251. give more output. Also, version information is printed at startup.
  252. .TP
  253. .B \-debug
  254. Same as
  255. .BR \-verbose .
  256. .SH EXAMPLES
  257. .LP
  258. This example converts a baseline JPEG file to progressive form:
  259. .IP
  260. .B jpegtran \-progressive
  261. .I foo.jpg
  262. .B >
  263. .I fooprog.jpg
  264. .PP
  265. This example rotates an image 90 degrees clockwise, discarding any
  266. unrotatable edge pixels:
  267. .IP
  268. .B jpegtran \-rot 90 -trim
  269. .I foo.jpg
  270. .B >
  271. .I foo90.jpg
  272. .SH ENVIRONMENT
  273. .TP
  274. .B JPEGMEM
  275. If this environment variable is set, its value is the default memory limit.
  276. The value is specified as described for the
  277. .B \-maxmemory
  278. switch.
  279. .B JPEGMEM
  280. overrides the default value specified when the program was compiled, and
  281. itself is overridden by an explicit
  282. .BR \-maxmemory .
  283. .SH SEE ALSO
  284. .BR cjpeg (1),
  285. .BR djpeg (1),
  286. .BR rdjpgcom (1),
  287. .BR wrjpgcom (1)
  288. .br
  289. Wallace, Gregory K. "The JPEG Still Picture Compression Standard",
  290. Communications of the ACM, April 1991 (vol. 34, no. 4), pp. 30-44.
  291. .SH AUTHOR
  292. Independent JPEG Group
  293. .SH BUGS
  294. The transform options can't transform odd-size images perfectly. Use
  295. .B \-trim
  296. or
  297. .B \-perfect
  298. if you don't like the results.
  299. .PP
  300. The entire image is read into memory and then written out again, even in
  301. cases where this isn't really necessary. Expect swapping on large images,
  302. especially when using the more complex transform options.