<!-- Creator : groff version 1.18.1 --><!-- CreationDate: Fri Jul 13 17:43:19 2007 --><html><head><meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org"><meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"><title>TIFF2RGBA</title></head><body><h1 align=center>TIFF2RGBA</h1><a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br><a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br><a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br><a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br><a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br><hr><a name="NAME"></a><h2>NAME</h2><!-- INDENTATION --><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr valign="top" align="left"><td width="8%"></td><td width="91%"><p>tiff2rgba − convert a <small>TIFF</small> image toRGBA color space</p></td></table><a name="SYNOPSIS"></a><h2>SYNOPSIS</h2><!-- INDENTATION --><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr valign="top" align="left"><td width="8%"></td><td width="91%"><p><b>tiff2rgba</b> [ <i>options</i> ] <i>input.tifoutput.tif</i></p></td></table><a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><!-- INDENTATION --><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr valign="top" align="left"><td width="8%"></td><td width="91%"><p><i>Tiff2rgba</i> converts a wide variety of TIFF imagesinto an RGBA TIFF image. This includes the ability totranslate different color spaces and photometricinterpretation into RGBA, support for alpha blending, andtranslation of many different bit depths into a 32bit RGBAimage.</p><!-- INDENTATION --><p>Internally this program is implemented using the<i>TIFFReadRGBAImage()</i> function, and it suffers anylimitations of that image. This includes limited support for> 8 BitsPerSample images, and flaws with some esotericcombinations of BitsPerSample, photometric interpretation,block organization and planar configuration.</p><!-- INDENTATION --><p>The generated images are stripped images with foursamples per pixel (red, green, blue and alpha) or if the<b>−n</b> flag is used, three samples per pixel (red,green, and blue). The resulting images are always planarconfiguration contiguous. For this reason, this program is auseful utility for transform exotic TIFF files into a formingestible by almost any TIFF supporting software.</p></td></table><a name="OPTIONS"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><!-- TABS --><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="5" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr valign="top" align="left"><td width="11%"></td><td width="2%"><p><b>−c</b></p></td><td width="5%"></td><td width="80%"><p>Specify a compression scheme to use when writing imagedata: <b>−c none</b> for no compression (the default),<b>−c packbits</b> for the PackBits compressionalgorithm, <b>−c zip</b> for the Deflate compressionalgorithm, <b>−c jpeg</b> for the JPEG compressionalgorithm, and <b>−c lzw</b> for Lempel-Ziv &Welch.</p></td><td width="0%"></td><tr valign="top" align="left"><td width="11%"></td><td width="2%"><p><b>−r</b></p></td><td width="5%"></td><td width="80%"><p>Write data with a specified number of rows per strip; bydefault the number of rows/strip is selected so that eachstrip is approximately 8 kilobytes.</p></td><td width="0%"></td><tr valign="top" align="left"><td width="11%"></td><td width="2%"><p><b>−b</b></p></td><td width="5%"></td><td width="80%"><p>Process the image one block (strip/tile) at a timeinstead of by reading the whole image into memory at once.This may be necessary for very large images on systems withlimited RAM.</p></td><td width="0%"></td><tr valign="top" align="left"><td width="11%"></td><td width="2%"><p><b>−n</b></p></td><td width="5%"></td><td width="80%"><p>Drop the alpha component from the output file, producinga pure RGB file. Currently this does not work if the<b>−b</b> flag is also in effect.</p></td><td width="0%"></td></table><a name="SEE ALSO"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><!-- INDENTATION --><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr valign="top" align="left"><td width="8%"></td><td width="91%"><p><b>tiff2bw</b>(1), <b>TIFFReadRGBAImage</b>(3t),<b>libtiff</b>(3)</p><!-- INDENTATION --><p>Libtiff library home page:<b>http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/</b></p></td></table><hr></body></html>