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.TH GIF2TIFF 1 "November 2, 2005" "libtiff"

.SH NAME

gif2tiff \- create a

.SM TIFF

file from a GIF87 format image file

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B gif2tiff

[

.I options

]

.I input.gif

.I output.tif

.SH DESCRIPTION

.I Gif2tiff

converts a file in the GIF87 format to

.SM TIFF.

The

.SM TIFF

image is created as a palette image, with samples

compressed with the Lempel-Ziv & Welch algorithm (\c

.IR Compression =5).

These characteristics can overridden, or explicitly specified

with the options described below.

.SH OPTIONS

.TP

.B \-c

Specify a compression scheme to use when writing image data:

.B "\-c none"

for no compression,

.B "\-c packbits"

for the PackBits compression algorithm,

.B "\-c zip"

for the Deflate compression algorithm,

and

.B "\-c lzw"

for Lempel-Ziv & Welch (the default).

.TP

.B \-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.

.SH NOTES

The program is based on Paul Haeberli's

.I fromgif

program which, in turn, is based on Marcel J.E. Mol's GIF reader.

.SH BUGS

Should have more options to control output format.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.BR pal2rgb (1),

.BR tiffinfo (1),

.BR tiffcp (1),

.BR tiffmedian (1),

.BR libtiff (3)

.PP

Libtiff library home page:

.BR http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/