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