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.TH CPALDJVU 1 "10/11/2001" "DjVuLibre-3.5" "DjVuLibre-3.5"

.SH NAME

cpaldjvu \- DjVuDocument encoder for low-color images.

.SH SYNOPSIS

.BI "cpaldjvu  [" "options" "] " "inputppmfile" " " "outputdjvufile"

.SH DESCRIPTION

Program 

.B cpaldjvu

is a DjVuDocument encoder for images containing few colors.  It performs best

on images containing large solid color areas such as screen dumps.

Compression ratios on such images can be much higher than those achieved by

.SM GIF

or

.SM PNG

compression.

This program works by first reducing the number of distinct colors to a small

specified value using a simple color quantization algorithm.  The dominant

color is encoded into the background layer.  The other colors are encoded into

the foreground layer.

.SH OPTIONS

.TP

.BI "-dpi " "n"

Specify the resolution information encoded into the output file expressed in

dots per inch. The resolution information encoded in DjVu files determine how

the decoder scales the image on a particular display.  Meaningful resolutions

range from 25 to 6000.  The default value is 300 dpi.

.TP

.BI "-colors " "n"

Specify a maximum number of distinct colors for the color quantization

algorithm.  process. The default value is 256.  Smaller values can produce

much smaller files.

.TP

.B "-bgwhite"

Cause the background layer to use the lightest quantified color

instead of the dominant color.

.TP

.B "-verbose"

Display informational messages while running.

.SH REMARKS

The color quantization might introduce severe degradation if the image

contains photographic areas with a large number of very similar colors.

Color quantization problems might be solved by pre-processing

the input file with a different quantization program such as

.BR ppmquant .

Avoid using the error diffusion dithering algorithm.

This algorithm generates random dithering patterns that

might be very costly to encode.

.SH BUGS

This program should be rewritten as a pre-processor for 

.BR csepdjvu .

.SH CREDITS

This program was initially written by L\('eon Bottou

<leonb@users.sourceforge.net> and was improved by Bill Riemers

<docbill@sourceforge.net> and many others.

.SH SEE ALSO

.BR djvu (1),

.BR pbm (5),

.BR ppmquant (1),

.BR pnmtogif (1),

.BR pnmtopng (1)