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Linux / Unix Command: gif2tiff
Command Library

NAME

gif2tiff - create a TIFF file from a GIF87 format image file  

SYNOPSIS

gif2tiff [ options ] input.gif output.tif  

DESCRIPTION

Gif2tiff converts a file in the GIF87 format to TIFF. The TIFF image is created as a palette image, with samples compressed with the Lempel-Ziv & Welch algorithm (Compression=5). These characteristics can overriden, or explicitly specified with the options described below.  

OPTIONS

-c
Specify a compression scheme to use when writing image data: -c none for no compression, -c packbits for the PackBits compression algorithm, -c zip for the Deflate compression algorithm, and -c lzw for Lempel-Ziv & Welch (the default).
-r
Write data with a specified number of rows per strip; by default the number of rows/strip is selected so that each strip is approximately 8 kilobytes.
 

SEE ALSO

pal2rgb(1), tiffinfo(1), tiffcp(1), tiffmedian(1), libtiff(3)


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