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| 1 .TH JPEGTRAN 1 "18 February 2016" |
| 2 .SH NAME |
| 3 jpegtran \- lossless transformation of JPEG files |
| 4 .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 5 .B jpegtran |
| 6 [ |
| 7 .I options |
| 8 ] |
| 9 [ |
| 10 .I filename |
| 11 ] |
| 12 .LP |
| 13 .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 14 .LP |
| 15 .B jpegtran |
| 16 performs various useful transformations of JPEG files. |
| 17 It can translate the coded representation from one variant of JPEG to another, |
| 18 for example from baseline JPEG to progressive JPEG or vice versa. It can also |
| 19 perform some rearrangements of the image data, for example turning an image |
| 20 from landscape to portrait format by rotation. |
| 21 .PP |
| 22 For EXIF files and JPEG files containing Exif data, you may prefer to use |
| 23 .B exiftran |
| 24 instead. |
| 25 .PP |
| 26 .B jpegtran |
| 27 works by rearranging the compressed data (DCT coefficients), without |
| 28 ever fully decoding the image. Therefore, its transformations are lossless: |
| 29 there is no image degradation at all, which would not be true if you used |
| 30 .B djpeg |
| 31 followed by |
| 32 .B cjpeg |
| 33 to accomplish the same conversion. But by the same token, |
| 34 .B jpegtran |
| 35 cannot perform lossy operations such as changing the image quality. However, |
| 36 while the image data is losslessly transformed, metadata can be removed. See |
| 37 the |
| 38 .B \-copy |
| 39 option for specifics. |
| 40 .PP |
| 41 .B jpegtran |
| 42 reads the named JPEG/JFIF file, or the standard input if no file is |
| 43 named, and produces a JPEG/JFIF file on the standard output. |
| 44 .SH OPTIONS |
| 45 All switch names may be abbreviated; for example, |
| 46 .B \-optimize |
| 47 may be written |
| 48 .B \-opt |
| 49 or |
| 50 .BR \-o . |
| 51 Upper and lower case are equivalent. |
| 52 British spellings are also accepted (e.g., |
| 53 .BR \-optimise ), |
| 54 though for brevity these are not mentioned below. |
| 55 .PP |
| 56 To specify the coded JPEG representation used in the output file, |
| 57 .B jpegtran |
| 58 accepts a subset of the switches recognized by |
| 59 .BR cjpeg : |
| 60 .TP |
| 61 .B \-optimize |
| 62 Perform optimization of entropy encoding parameters. |
| 63 .TP |
| 64 .B \-progressive |
| 65 Create progressive JPEG file. |
| 66 .TP |
| 67 .BI \-restart " N" |
| 68 Emit a JPEG restart marker every N MCU rows, or every N MCU blocks if "B" is |
| 69 attached to the number. |
| 70 .TP |
| 71 .B \-arithmetic |
| 72 Use arithmetic coding. |
| 73 .TP |
| 74 .BI \-scans " file" |
| 75 Use the scan script given in the specified text file. |
| 76 .PP |
| 77 See |
| 78 .BR cjpeg (1) |
| 79 for more details about these switches. |
| 80 If you specify none of these switches, you get a plain baseline-JPEG output |
| 81 file. The quality setting and so forth are determined by the input file. |
| 82 .PP |
| 83 The image can be losslessly transformed by giving one of these switches: |
| 84 .TP |
| 85 .B \-flip horizontal |
| 86 Mirror image horizontally (left-right). |
| 87 .TP |
| 88 .B \-flip vertical |
| 89 Mirror image vertically (top-bottom). |
| 90 .TP |
| 91 .B \-rotate 90 |
| 92 Rotate image 90 degrees clockwise. |
| 93 .TP |
| 94 .B \-rotate 180 |
| 95 Rotate image 180 degrees. |
| 96 .TP |
| 97 .B \-rotate 270 |
| 98 Rotate image 270 degrees clockwise (or 90 ccw). |
| 99 .TP |
| 100 .B \-transpose |
| 101 Transpose image (across UL-to-LR axis). |
| 102 .TP |
| 103 .B \-transverse |
| 104 Transverse transpose (across UR-to-LL axis). |
| 105 .PP |
| 106 The transpose transformation has no restrictions regarding image dimensions. |
| 107 The other transformations operate rather oddly if the image dimensions are not |
| 108 a multiple of the iMCU size (usually 8 or 16 pixels), because they can only |
| 109 transform complete blocks of DCT coefficient data in the desired way. |
| 110 .PP |
| 111 .BR jpegtran 's |
| 112 default behavior when transforming an odd-size image is designed |
| 113 to preserve exact reversibility and mathematical consistency of the |
| 114 transformation set. As stated, transpose is able to flip the entire image |
| 115 area. Horizontal mirroring leaves any partial iMCU column at the right edge |
| 116 untouched, but is able to flip all rows of the image. Similarly, vertical |
| 117 mirroring leaves any partial iMCU row at the bottom edge untouched, but is |
| 118 able to flip all columns. The other transforms can be built up as sequences |
| 119 of transpose and flip operations; for consistency, their actions on edge |
| 120 pixels are defined to be the same as the end result of the corresponding |
| 121 transpose-and-flip sequence. |
| 122 .PP |
| 123 For practical use, you may prefer to discard any untransformable edge pixels |
| 124 rather than having a strange-looking strip along the right and/or bottom edges |
| 125 of a transformed image. To do this, add the |
| 126 .B \-trim |
| 127 switch: |
| 128 .TP |
| 129 .B \-trim |
| 130 Drop non-transformable edge blocks. |
| 131 .IP |
| 132 Obviously, a transformation with |
| 133 .B \-trim |
| 134 is not reversible, so strictly speaking |
| 135 .B jpegtran |
| 136 with this switch is not lossless. Also, the expected mathematical |
| 137 equivalences between the transformations no longer hold. For example, |
| 138 .B \-rot 270 -trim |
| 139 trims only the bottom edge, but |
| 140 .B \-rot 90 -trim |
| 141 followed by |
| 142 .B \-rot 180 -trim |
| 143 trims both edges. |
| 144 .TP |
| 145 .B \-perfect |
| 146 If you are only interested in perfect transformations, add the |
| 147 .B \-perfect |
| 148 switch. This causes |
| 149 .B jpegtran |
| 150 to fail with an error if the transformation is not perfect. |
| 151 .IP |
| 152 For example, you may want to do |
| 153 .IP |
| 154 .B (jpegtran \-rot 90 -perfect |
| 155 .I foo.jpg |
| 156 .B || djpeg |
| 157 .I foo.jpg |
| 158 .B | pnmflip \-r90 | cjpeg) |
| 159 .IP |
| 160 to do a perfect rotation, if available, or an approximated one if not. |
| 161 .PP |
| 162 This version of \fBjpegtran\fR also offers a lossless crop option, which |
| 163 discards data outside of a given image region but losslessly preserves what is |
| 164 inside. Like the rotate and flip transforms, lossless crop is restricted by the |
| 165 current JPEG format; the upper left corner of the selected region must fall on |
| 166 an iMCU boundary. If it doesn't, then it is silently moved up and/or left to |
| 167 the nearest iMCU boundary (the lower right corner is unchanged.) Thus, the |
| 168 output image covers at least the requested region, but it may cover more. The |
| 169 adjustment of the region dimensions may be optionally disabled by attaching |
| 170 an 'f' character ("force") to the width or height number. |
| 171 |
| 172 The image can be losslessly cropped by giving the switch: |
| 173 .TP |
| 174 .B \-crop WxH+X+Y |
| 175 Crop the image to a rectangular region of width W and height H, starting at |
| 176 point X,Y. The lossless crop feature discards data outside of a given image |
| 177 region but losslessly preserves what is inside. Like the rotate and flip |
| 178 transforms, lossless crop is restricted by the current JPEG format; the upper |
| 179 left corner of the selected region must fall on an iMCU boundary. If it |
| 180 doesn't, then it is silently moved up and/or left to the nearest iMCU boundary |
| 181 (the lower right corner is unchanged.) |
| 182 .PP |
| 183 Other not-strictly-lossless transformation switches are: |
| 184 .TP |
| 185 .B \-grayscale |
| 186 Force grayscale output. |
| 187 .IP |
| 188 This option discards the chrominance channels if the input image is YCbCr |
| 189 (ie, a standard color JPEG), resulting in a grayscale JPEG file. The |
| 190 luminance channel is preserved exactly, so this is a better method of reducing |
| 191 to grayscale than decompression, conversion, and recompression. This switch |
| 192 is particularly handy for fixing a monochrome picture that was mistakenly |
| 193 encoded as a color JPEG. (In such a case, the space savings from getting rid |
| 194 of the near-empty chroma channels won't be large; but the decoding time for |
| 195 a grayscale JPEG is substantially less than that for a color JPEG.) |
| 196 .PP |
| 197 .B jpegtran |
| 198 also recognizes these switches that control what to do with "extra" markers, |
| 199 such as comment blocks: |
| 200 .TP |
| 201 .B \-copy none |
| 202 Copy no extra markers from source file. This setting suppresses all |
| 203 comments and other metadata in the source file. |
| 204 .TP |
| 205 .B \-copy comments |
| 206 Copy only comment markers. This setting copies comments from the source file |
| 207 but discards any other metadata. |
| 208 .TP |
| 209 .B \-copy all |
| 210 Copy all extra markers. This setting preserves miscellaneous markers |
| 211 found in the source file, such as JFIF thumbnails, Exif data, and Photoshop |
| 212 settings. In some files, these extra markers can be sizable. Note that this |
| 213 option will copy thumbnails as-is; they will not be transformed. |
| 214 .PP |
| 215 The default behavior is \fB-copy comments\fR. (Note: in IJG releases v6 and |
| 216 v6a, \fBjpegtran\fR always did the equivalent of \fB-copy none\fR.) |
| 217 .PP |
| 218 Additional switches recognized by jpegtran are: |
| 219 .TP |
| 220 .BI \-maxmemory " N" |
| 221 Set limit for amount of memory to use in processing large images. Value is |
| 222 in thousands of bytes, or millions of bytes if "M" is attached to the |
| 223 number. For example, |
| 224 .B \-max 4m |
| 225 selects 4000000 bytes. If more space is needed, temporary files will be used. |
| 226 .TP |
| 227 .BI \-outfile " name" |
| 228 Send output image to the named file, not to standard output. |
| 229 .TP |
| 230 .B \-verbose |
| 231 Enable debug printout. More |
| 232 .BR \-v 's |
| 233 give more output. Also, version information is printed at startup. |
| 234 .TP |
| 235 .B \-debug |
| 236 Same as |
| 237 .BR \-verbose . |
| 238 .TP |
| 239 .B \-version |
| 240 Print version information and exit. |
| 241 .SH EXAMPLES |
| 242 .LP |
| 243 This example converts a baseline JPEG file to progressive form: |
| 244 .IP |
| 245 .B jpegtran \-progressive |
| 246 .I foo.jpg |
| 247 .B > |
| 248 .I fooprog.jpg |
| 249 .PP |
| 250 This example rotates an image 90 degrees clockwise, discarding any |
| 251 unrotatable edge pixels: |
| 252 .IP |
| 253 .B jpegtran \-rot 90 -trim |
| 254 .I foo.jpg |
| 255 .B > |
| 256 .I foo90.jpg |
| 257 .SH ENVIRONMENT |
| 258 .TP |
| 259 .B JPEGMEM |
| 260 If this environment variable is set, its value is the default memory limit. |
| 261 The value is specified as described for the |
| 262 .B \-maxmemory |
| 263 switch. |
| 264 .B JPEGMEM |
| 265 overrides the default value specified when the program was compiled, and |
| 266 itself is overridden by an explicit |
| 267 .BR \-maxmemory . |
| 268 .SH SEE ALSO |
| 269 .BR cjpeg (1), |
| 270 .BR djpeg (1), |
| 271 .BR rdjpgcom (1), |
| 272 .BR wrjpgcom (1) |
| 273 .br |
| 274 Wallace, Gregory K. "The JPEG Still Picture Compression Standard", |
| 275 Communications of the ACM, April 1991 (vol. 34, no. 4), pp. 30-44. |
| 276 .SH AUTHOR |
| 277 Independent JPEG Group |
| 278 .PP |
| 279 This file was modified by The libjpeg-turbo Project to include only information |
| 280 relevant to libjpeg-turbo and to wordsmith certain sections. |
| 281 .SH BUGS |
| 282 The transform options can't transform odd-size images perfectly. Use |
| 283 .B \-trim |
| 284 or |
| 285 .B \-perfect |
| 286 if you don't like the results. |
| 287 .PP |
| 288 The entire image is read into memory and then written out again, even in |
| 289 cases where this isn't really necessary. Expect swapping on large images, |
| 290 especially when using the more complex transform options. |
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