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diff --git a/tiff/html/tools.html b/tiff/html/tools.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..65e9c0d --- /dev/null +++ b/tiff/html/tools.html @@ -0,0 +1,164 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<meta name="generator" content= +"HTML Tidy for Solaris (vers 12 April 2005), see www.w3.org"> +<title>TIFF Tools Overview</title> +</head> +<body bgcolor="white"> +<h1><font face="Arial, Helvetica, Sans"><img src="images/quad.jpg" +width="144" height="108" align="left" border="1" hspace="6"> TIFF +Tools Overview</font></h1> +<p>This software distribution comes with a small collection of +programs for converting non-TIFF format images to TIFF and for +manipulating and interrogating the contents of TIFF images. Several +of these tools are useful in their own right. Many of them however +are more intended to serve as programming examples for using the +TIFF library.</p> +<h3>Device-dependent Programs</h3> +There are two device-dependent programs that serve as simple +examples for writing programs to display and save TIFF images. +<table border cellpadding="3"> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"> +<tt><a href="man/tiffgt.1.html">tiffgt</a> </tt></td> +<td>Display the contents of one or more TIFF images using OpenGL. +The software makes extensive use of the <tt>TIFFRGBAImage</tt> +facilities described elsewhere.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/tiffsv.1.html">tiffsv</a></tt></td> +<td>A program to save all or part of a screen dump on a Silicon +Graphics system. As for <tt>tiffgt</tt> this code, while written to +use the IRIS GL, can be easily tailored to other devices.</td> +</tr> +</table> +<h3>Device-independent Programs</h3> +The remaining programs should be device-independent: +<table border cellpadding="3"> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/bmp2tiff.1.html">bmp2tiff</a></tt></td> +<td>Convert BMP images to TIFF</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/fax2ps.1.html">fax2ps</a></tt></td> +<td>Convert a Group 3- or Group 4- compressed TIFF to PostScript +that is significantly more compressed than is generated by +<tt>tiff2ps</tt> (unless <tt>tiff2ps</tt> writes PS Level II)</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/fax2tiff.1.html">fax2tiff</a></tt></td> +<td>Convert raw Group 3 or Group 4 facsimile data to TIFF</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/gif2tiff.1.html">gif2tiff</a></tt></td> +<td>A quick hack that converts GIF 87a (old) format images to TIFF</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/pal2rgb.1.html">pal2rgb</a></tt></td> +<td>Convert a Palette-style image to a full color RGB image by +applying the colormap</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/ppm2tiff.1.html">ppm2tiff</a></tt></td> +<td>A quick hack that converts 8-bit PPM format images to TIFF</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/ras2tiff.1.html">ras2tiff</a></tt></td> +<td>A quick hack that converts Sun rasterfile format images to TIFF +-- it's less than complete</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/raw2tiff.1.html">raw2tiff</a></tt></td> +<td>Create a TIFF file from raw data</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/rgb2ycbcr.1.html">rgb2ycbcr</a></tt></td> +<td>Convert an RGB, grayscale, or bilevel TIFF image to a YCbCr +TIFF image; it's mainly provided for testing</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/sgi2tiff.1.html">sgi2tiff</a></tt></td> +<td>A program to convert SGI image files to TIFF. This program is +only useful on SGI machines as it uses <tt>-limage</tt>.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/thumbnail.1.html">thumbnail</a></tt></tt></td> +<td>Copy a bilevel TIFF to one that includes 8-bit greyscale +"thumbnail images" for each page; it is provided as an example of +how one might use the <tt>SubIFD</tt> tag (and the library support +for it)</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/tiff2bw.1.html">tiff2bw</a></tt></td> +<td>A simple program to convert a color image to grayscale</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/tiff2pdf.1.html">tiff2pdf</a></tt></td> +<td>Convert TIFF images to PDF</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/tiff2ps.1.html">tiff2ps</a></tt></td> +<td>Convert TIFF images to PostScript</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/tiff2rgba.1.html">tiff2rgba</a></tt></td> +<td>Convert a TIFF image to RGBA color space</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/tiffcmp.1.html">tiffcmp</a></tt></td> +<td>Compare the contents of two TIFF files (it does not check all +the directory information, but does check all the data)</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/tiffcp.1.html">tiffcp</a></tt></td> +<td>Copy, concatenate, and convert TIFF images (e.g. switching from +Compression=5 to Compression=1)</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/tiffcrop.1.html">tiffcrop</a></tt></td> +<td>Provides selection of images from within one or more multi-image +TIFF files, with orthogonal rotation, mirroring, cropping, and +extraction of multiple sections and exporting to one or more files. +It extends the functionality of tiffcp to support additional bit +depths in strips and tiles and enhances the selection capabilities of +tiffsplit. Bilevel images can be inverted and images may be split into +segments to fit on multiple /pages/ (standard paper sizes), plus other +functions described in the tiffcrop man page</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/tiffdither.1.html">tiffdither</a></tt></td> +<td>Dither a b&w image into a bilevel image (suitable for use +in creating fax files)</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/tiffdump.1.html">tiffdump</a></tt></td> +<td>Display the verbatim contents of the TIFF directory in a file +(it's very useful for debugging bogus files that you may get from +someone that claims they support TIFF)</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/tiffinfo.1.html">tiffinfo</a></tt></td> +<td>Display information about one or more TIFF files.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/tiffmedian.1.html">tiffmedian</a></tt></td> +<td>A version of Paul Heckbert's median cut program that reads an +RGB TIFF image, and creates a TIFF palette file as a result</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/tiffset.1.html">tiffset</a></tt></td> +<td>Set a field in a TIFF header</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td valign="top" width="10%"><tt><a href="man/tiffsplit.1.html">tiffsplit</a></tt></td> +<td>Create one or more single-image files from a (possibly) +multi-image file</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Check out the manual pages for details about the above +programs.</p> +<hr> +Last updated: $Date: 2009-10-28 22:13:37 $ +</body> +</html> |