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| +NOTE: This file was modified by The libjpeg-turbo Project to include only
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| +information relevant to libjpeg-turbo and to wordsmith certain sections.
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| +USAGE instructions for the Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software
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| +=================================================================
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| +
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| +This file describes usage of the JPEG conversion programs cjpeg and djpeg,
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| +as well as the utility programs jpegtran, rdjpgcom and wrjpgcom. (See
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| +the other documentation files if you wish to use the JPEG library within
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| +your own programs.)
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| +
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| +If you are on a Unix machine you may prefer to read the Unix-style manual
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| +pages in files cjpeg.1, djpeg.1, jpegtran.1, rdjpgcom.1, wrjpgcom.1.
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| +
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| +
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| +INTRODUCTION
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| +
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| +These programs implement JPEG image encoding, decoding, and transcoding.
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| +JPEG (pronounced "jay-peg") is a standardized compression method for
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| +full-color and grayscale images.
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| +
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| +
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| +GENERAL USAGE
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| +
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| +We provide two programs, cjpeg to compress an image file into JPEG format,
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| +and djpeg to decompress a JPEG file back into a conventional image format.
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| +
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| +On Unix-like systems, you say:
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| + cjpeg [switches] [imagefile] >jpegfile
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| +or
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| + djpeg [switches] [jpegfile] >imagefile
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| +The programs read the specified input file, or standard input if none is
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| +named. They always write to standard output (with trace/error messages to
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| +standard error). These conventions are handy for piping images between
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| +programs.
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| +
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| +On most non-Unix systems, you say:
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| + cjpeg [switches] imagefile jpegfile
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| +or
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| + djpeg [switches] jpegfile imagefile
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| +i.e., both the input and output files are named on the command line. This
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| +style is a little more foolproof, and it loses no functionality if you don't
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| +have pipes. (You can get this style on Unix too, if you prefer, by defining
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| +TWO_FILE_COMMANDLINE when you compile the programs; see install.txt.)
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| +
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| +You can also say:
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| + cjpeg [switches] -outfile jpegfile imagefile
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| +or
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| + djpeg [switches] -outfile imagefile jpegfile
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| +This syntax works on all systems, so it is useful for scripts.
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| +
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| +The currently supported image file formats are: PPM (PBMPLUS color format),
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| +PGM (PBMPLUS grayscale format), BMP, Targa, and RLE (Utah Raster Toolkit
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| +format). (RLE is supported only if the URT library is available, which it
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| +isn't on most non-Unix systems.) cjpeg recognizes the input image format
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| +automatically, with the exception of some Targa files. You have to tell djpeg
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| +which format to generate.
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| +
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| +JPEG files are in the defacto standard JFIF file format. There are other,
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| +less widely used JPEG-based file formats, but we don't support them.
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| +
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| +All switch names may be abbreviated; for example, -grayscale may be written
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| +-gray or -gr. Most of the "basic" switches can be abbreviated to as little as
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| +one letter. Upper and lower case are equivalent (-BMP is the same as -bmp).
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| +British spellings are also accepted (e.g., -greyscale), though for brevity
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| +these are not mentioned below.
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| +
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| +
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| +CJPEG DETAILS
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| +
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| +The basic command line switches for cjpeg are:
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| +
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| + -quality N[,...] Scale quantization tables to adjust image quality.
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| + Quality is 0 (worst) to 100 (best); default is 75.
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| + (See below for more info.)
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| +
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| + -grayscale Create monochrome JPEG file from color input.
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| + Be sure to use this switch when compressing a grayscale
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| + BMP file, because cjpeg isn't bright enough to notice
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| + whether a BMP file uses only shades of gray. By
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| + saying -grayscale, you'll get a smaller JPEG file that
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| + takes less time to process.
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| +
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| + -rgb Create RGB JPEG file.
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| + Using this switch suppresses the conversion from RGB
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| + colorspace input to the default YCbCr JPEG colorspace.
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| +
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| + -optimize Perform optimization of entropy encoding parameters.
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| + Without this, default encoding parameters are used.
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| + -optimize usually makes the JPEG file a little smaller,
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| + but cjpeg runs somewhat slower and needs much more
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| + memory. Image quality and speed of decompression are
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| + unaffected by -optimize.
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| +
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| + -progressive Create progressive JPEG file (see below).
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| +
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| + -targa Input file is Targa format. Targa files that contain
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| + an "identification" field will not be automatically
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| + recognized by cjpeg; for such files you must specify
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| + -targa to make cjpeg treat the input as Targa format.
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| + For most Targa files, you won't need this switch.
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| +
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| +The -quality switch lets you trade off compressed file size against quality of
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| +the reconstructed image: the higher the quality setting, the larger the JPEG
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| +file, and the closer the output image will be to the original input. Normally
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| +you want to use the lowest quality setting (smallest file) that decompresses
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| +into something visually indistinguishable from the original image. For this
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| +purpose the quality setting should generally be between 50 and 95 (the default
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| +is 75) for photographic images. If you see defects at -quality 75, then go up
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| +5 or 10 counts at a time until you are happy with the output image. (The
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| +optimal setting will vary from one image to another.)
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| +
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| +-quality 100 will generate a quantization table of all 1's, minimizing loss
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| +in the quantization step (but there is still information loss in subsampling,
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| +as well as roundoff error.) For most images, specifying a quality value above
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| +about 95 will increase the size of the compressed file dramatically, and while
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| +the quality gain from these higher quality values is measurable (using metrics
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| +such as PSNR or SSIM), it is rarely perceivable by human vision.
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| +
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| +In the other direction, quality values below 50 will produce very small files
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| +of low image quality. Settings around 5 to 10 might be useful in preparing an
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| +index of a large image library, for example. Try -quality 2 (or so) for some
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| +amusing Cubist effects. (Note: quality values below about 25 generate 2-byte
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| +quantization tables, which are considered optional in the JPEG standard.
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| +cjpeg emits a warning message when you give such a quality value, because some
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| +other JPEG programs may be unable to decode the resulting file. Use -baseline
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| +if you need to ensure compatibility at low quality values.)
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| +
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| +The -quality option has been extended in this version of cjpeg to support
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| +separate quality settings for luminance and chrominance (or, in general,
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| +separate settings for every quantization table slot.) The principle is the
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| +same as chrominance subsampling: since the human eye is more sensitive to
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| +spatial changes in brightness than spatial changes in color, the chrominance
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| +components can be quantized more than the luminance components without
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| +incurring any visible image quality loss. However, unlike subsampling, this
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| +feature reduces data in the frequency domain instead of the spatial domain,
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| +which allows for more fine-grained control. This option is useful in
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| +quality-sensitive applications, for which the artifacts generated by
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| +subsampling may be unacceptable.
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| +
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| +The -quality option accepts a comma-separated list of parameters, which
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| +respectively refer to the quality levels that should be assigned to the
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| +quantization table slots. If there are more q-table slots than parameters,
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| +then the last parameter is replicated. Thus, if only one quality parameter is
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| +given, this is used for both luminance and chrominance (slots 0 and 1,
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| +respectively), preserving the legacy behavior of cjpeg v6b and prior. More (or
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| +customized) quantization tables can be set with the -qtables option and
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| +assigned to components with the -qslots option (see the "wizard" switches
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| +below.)
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| +
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| +JPEG files generated with separate luminance and chrominance quality are
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| +fully compliant with standard JPEG decoders.
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| +
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| +CAUTION: For this setting to be useful, be sure to pass an argument of
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| +-sample 1x1 to cjpeg to disable chrominance subsampling. Otherwise, the
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| +default subsampling level (2x2, AKA "4:2:0") will be used.
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| +
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| +The -progressive switch creates a "progressive JPEG" file. In this type of
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| +JPEG file, the data is stored in multiple scans of increasing quality. If the
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| +file is being transmitted over a slow communications link, the decoder can use
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| +the first scan to display a low-quality image very quickly, and can then
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| +improve the display with each subsequent scan. The final image is exactly
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| +equivalent to a standard JPEG file of the same quality setting, and the total
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| +file size is about the same --- often a little smaller.
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| +
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| +Switches for advanced users:
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| +
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| + -arithmetic Use arithmetic coding. CAUTION: arithmetic coded JPEG
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| + is not yet widely implemented, so many decoders will
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| + be unable to view an arithmetic coded JPEG file at
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| + all.
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| +
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| + -dct int Use integer DCT method (default).
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| + -dct fast Use fast integer DCT (less accurate).
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| + In libjpeg-turbo, the fast method is generally about
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| + 5-15% faster than the int method when using the
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| + x86/x86-64 SIMD extensions (results may vary with other
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| + SIMD implementations, or when using libjpeg-turbo
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| + without SIMD extensions.) For quality levels of 90 and
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| + below, there should be little or no perceptible
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| + difference between the two algorithms. For quality
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| + levels above 90, however, the difference between
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| + the fast and the int methods becomes more pronounced.
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| + With quality=97, for instance, the fast method incurs
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| + generally about a 1-3 dB loss (in PSNR) relative to
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| + the int method, but this can be larger for some images.
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| + Do not use the fast method with quality levels above
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| + 97. The algorithm often degenerates at quality=98 and
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| + above and can actually produce a more lossy image than
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| + if lower quality levels had been used. Also, in
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| + libjpeg-turbo, the fast method is not fully accerated
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| + for quality levels above 97, so it will be slower than
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| + the int method.
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| + -dct float Use floating-point DCT method.
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| + The float method is mainly a legacy feature. It does
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| + not produce significantly more accurate results than
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| + the int method, and it is much slower. The float
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| + method may also give different results on different
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| + machines due to varying roundoff behavior, whereas the
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| + integer methods should give the same results on all
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| + machines.
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| +
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| + -restart N Emit a JPEG restart marker every N MCU rows, or every
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| + N MCU blocks if "B" is attached to the number.
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| + -restart 0 (the default) means no restart markers.
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| +
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| + -smooth N Smooth the input image to eliminate dithering noise.
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| + N, ranging from 1 to 100, indicates the strength of
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| + smoothing. 0 (the default) means no smoothing.
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| +
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| + -maxmemory N Set limit for amount of memory to use in processing
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| + large images. Value is in thousands of bytes, or
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| + millions of bytes if "M" is attached to the number.
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| + For example, -max 4m selects 4000000 bytes. If more
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| + space is needed, temporary files will be used.
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| +
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| + -verbose Enable debug printout. More -v's give more printout.
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| + or -debug Also, version information is printed at startup.
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| +
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| +The -restart option inserts extra markers that allow a JPEG decoder to
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| +resynchronize after a transmission error. Without restart markers, any damage
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| +to a compressed file will usually ruin the image from the point of the error
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| +to the end of the image; with restart markers, the damage is usually confined
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| +to the portion of the image up to the next restart marker. Of course, the
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| +restart markers occupy extra space. We recommend -restart 1 for images that
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| +will be transmitted across unreliable networks such as Usenet.
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| +
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| +The -smooth option filters the input to eliminate fine-scale noise. This is
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| +often useful when converting dithered images to JPEG: a moderate smoothing
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| +factor of 10 to 50 gets rid of dithering patterns in the input file, resulting
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| +in a smaller JPEG file and a better-looking image. Too large a smoothing
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| +factor will visibly blur the image, however.
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| +
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| +Switches for wizards:
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| +
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| + -baseline Force baseline-compatible quantization tables to be
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| + generated. This clamps quantization values to 8 bits
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| + even at low quality settings. (This switch is poorly
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| + named, since it does not ensure that the output is
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| + actually baseline JPEG. For example, you can use
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| + -baseline and -progressive together.)
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| +
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| + -qtables file Use the quantization tables given in the specified
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| + text file.
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| +
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| + -qslots N[,...] Select which quantization table to use for each color
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| + component.
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| +
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| + -sample HxV[,...] Set JPEG sampling factors for each color component.
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| +
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| + -scans file Use the scan script given in the specified text file.
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| +
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| +The "wizard" switches are intended for experimentation with JPEG. If you
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| +don't know what you are doing, DON'T USE THEM. These switches are documented
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| +further in the file wizard.txt.
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| +
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| +
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| +DJPEG DETAILS
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| +
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| +The basic command line switches for djpeg are:
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| +
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| + -colors N Reduce image to at most N colors. This reduces the
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| + or -quantize N number of colors used in the output image, so that it
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| + can be displayed on a colormapped display or stored in
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| + a colormapped file format. For example, if you have
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| + an 8-bit display, you'd need to reduce to 256 or fewer
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| + colors. (-colors is the recommended name, -quantize
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| + is provided only for backwards compatibility.)
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| +
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| + -fast Select recommended processing options for fast, low
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| + quality output. (The default options are chosen for
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| + highest quality output.) Currently, this is equivalent
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| + to "-dct fast -nosmooth -onepass -dither ordered".
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| +
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| + -grayscale Force grayscale output even if JPEG file is color.
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| + Useful for viewing on monochrome displays; also,
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| + djpeg runs noticeably faster in this mode.
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| +
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| + -rgb Force RGB output even if JPEG file is grayscale.
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| +
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| + -scale M/N Scale the output image by a factor M/N. Currently
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| + the scale factor must be M/8, where M is an integer
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| + between 1 and 16 inclusive, or any reduced fraction
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| + thereof (such as 1/2, 3/4, etc. Scaling is handy if
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| + the image is larger than your screen; also, djpeg runs
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| + much faster when scaling down the output.
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| +
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| + -bmp Select BMP output format (Windows flavor). 8-bit
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| + colormapped format is emitted if -colors or -grayscale
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| + is specified, or if the JPEG file is grayscale;
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| + otherwise, 24-bit full-color format is emitted.
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| +
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| + -gif Select GIF output format. Since GIF does not support
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| + more than 256 colors, -colors 256 is assumed (unless
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| + you specify a smaller number of colors). If you
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| + specify -fast, the default number of colors is 216.
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| +
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| + -os2 Select BMP output format (OS/2 1.x flavor). 8-bit
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| + colormapped format is emitted if -colors or -grayscale
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| + is specified, or if the JPEG file is grayscale;
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| + otherwise, 24-bit full-color format is emitted.
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| +
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| + -pnm Select PBMPLUS (PPM/PGM) output format (this is the
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| + default format). PGM is emitted if the JPEG file is
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| + grayscale or if -grayscale is specified; otherwise
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| + PPM is emitted.
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| +
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| + -rle Select RLE output format. (Requires URT library.)
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| +
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| + -targa Select Targa output format. Grayscale format is
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| + emitted if the JPEG file is grayscale or if
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| + -grayscale is specified; otherwise, colormapped format
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| + is emitted if -colors is specified; otherwise, 24-bit
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| + full-color format is emitted.
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| +
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| +Switches for advanced users:
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| +
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| + -dct int Use integer DCT method (default).
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| + -dct fast Use fast integer DCT (less accurate).
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| + In libjpeg-turbo, the fast method is generally about
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| + 5-15% faster than the int method when using the
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| + x86/x86-64 SIMD extensions (results may vary with other
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| + SIMD implementations, or when using libjpeg-turbo
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| + without SIMD extensions.) If the JPEG image was
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| + compressed using a quality level of 85 or below, then
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| + there should be little or no perceptible difference
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| + between the two algorithms. When decompressing images
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| + that were compressed using quality levels above 85,
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| + however, the difference between the fast and int
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| + methods becomes more pronounced. With images
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| + compressed using quality=97, for instance, the fast
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| + method incurs generally about a 4-6 dB loss (in PSNR)
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| + relative to the int method, but this can be larger for
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| + some images. If you can avoid it, do not use the fast
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| + method when decompressing images that were compressed
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| + using quality levels above 97. The algorithm often
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| + degenerates for such images and can actually produce
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| + a more lossy output image than if the JPEG image had
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| + been compressed using lower quality levels.
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| + -dct float Use floating-point DCT method.
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| + The float method is mainly a legacy feature. It does
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| + not produce significantly more accurate results than
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| + the int method, and it is much slower. The float
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| + method may also give different results on different
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| + machines due to varying roundoff behavior, whereas the
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| + integer methods should give the same results on all
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| + machines.
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| +
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| + -dither fs Use Floyd-Steinberg dithering in color quantization.
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| + -dither ordered Use ordered dithering in color quantization.
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| + -dither none Do not use dithering in color quantization.
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| + By default, Floyd-Steinberg dithering is applied when
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| + quantizing colors; this is slow but usually produces
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| + the best results. Ordered dither is a compromise
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| + between speed and quality; no dithering is fast but
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| + usually looks awful. Note that these switches have
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| + no effect unless color quantization is being done.
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| + Ordered dither is only available in -onepass mode.
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| +
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| + -map FILE Quantize to the colors used in the specified image
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| + file. This is useful for producing multiple files
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| + with identical color maps, or for forcing a predefined
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| + set of colors to be used. The FILE must be a GIF
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| + or PPM file. This option overrides -colors and
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| + -onepass.
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| +
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| + -nosmooth Use a faster, lower-quality upsampling routine.
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| +
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| + -onepass Use one-pass instead of two-pass color quantization.
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| + The one-pass method is faster and needs less memory,
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| + but it produces a lower-quality image. -onepass is
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| + ignored unless you also say -colors N. Also,
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| + the one-pass method is always used for grayscale
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| + output (the two-pass method is no improvement then).
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| +
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| + -maxmemory N Set limit for amount of memory to use in processing
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| + large images. Value is in thousands of bytes, or
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| + millions of bytes if "M" is attached to the number.
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| + For example, -max 4m selects 4000000 bytes. If more
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| + space is needed, temporary files will be used.
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| +
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| + -verbose Enable debug printout. More -v's give more printout.
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| + or -debug Also, version information is printed at startup.
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| +
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| +
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| +HINTS FOR CJPEG
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| +
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| +Color GIF files are not the ideal input for JPEG; JPEG is really intended for
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| +compressing full-color (24-bit) images. In particular, don't try to convert
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| +cartoons, line drawings, and other images that have only a few distinct
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| +colors. GIF works great on these, JPEG does not. If you want to convert a
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| +GIF to JPEG, you should experiment with cjpeg's -quality and -smooth options
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| +to get a satisfactory conversion. -smooth 10 or so is often helpful.
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| +
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| +Avoid running an image through a series of JPEG compression/decompression
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| +cycles. Image quality loss will accumulate; after ten or so cycles the image
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| +may be noticeably worse than it was after one cycle. It's best to use a
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| +lossless format while manipulating an image, then convert to JPEG format when
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| +you are ready to file the image away.
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| +
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| +The -optimize option to cjpeg is worth using when you are making a "final"
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| +version for posting or archiving. It's also a win when you are using low
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| +quality settings to make very small JPEG files; the percentage improvement
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| +is often a lot more than it is on larger files. (At present, -optimize
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| +mode is always selected when generating progressive JPEG files.)
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| +
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| +Support for GIF input files was removed in cjpeg v6b due to concerns over
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| +the Unisys LZW patent. Although this patent expired in 2006, cjpeg still
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| +lacks GIF support, for these historical reasons. (Conversion of GIF files to
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| +JPEG is usually a bad idea anyway.)
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| +
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| +
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| +HINTS FOR DJPEG
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| +
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| +To get a quick preview of an image, use the -grayscale and/or -scale switches.
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| +"-grayscale -scale 1/8" is the fastest case.
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| +
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| +Several options are available that trade off image quality to gain speed.
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| +"-fast" turns on the recommended settings.
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| +
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| +"-dct fast" and/or "-nosmooth" gain speed at a small sacrifice in quality.
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| +When producing a color-quantized image, "-onepass -dither ordered" is fast but
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| +much lower quality than the default behavior. "-dither none" may give
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| +acceptable results in two-pass mode, but is seldom tolerable in one-pass mode.
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| +
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| +Two-pass color quantization requires a good deal of memory; on MS-DOS machines
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| +it may run out of memory even with -maxmemory 0. In that case you can still
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| +decompress, with some loss of image quality, by specifying -onepass for
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| +one-pass quantization.
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| +
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| +To avoid the Unisys LZW patent (now expired), djpeg produces uncompressed GIF
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| +files. These are larger than they should be, but are readable by standard GIF
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| +decoders.
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| +
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| +
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| +HINTS FOR BOTH PROGRAMS
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| +
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| +If more space is needed than will fit in the available main memory (as
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| +determined by -maxmemory), temporary files will be used. (MS-DOS versions
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| +will try to get extended or expanded memory first.) The temporary files are
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| +often rather large: in typical cases they occupy three bytes per pixel, for
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| +example 3*800*600 = 1.44Mb for an 800x600 image. If you don't have enough
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| +free disk space, leave out -progressive and -optimize (for cjpeg) or specify
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| +-onepass (for djpeg).
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| +
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| +On MS-DOS, the temporary files are created in the directory named by the TMP
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| +or TEMP environment variable, or in the current directory if neither of those
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| +exist. Amiga implementations put the temp files in the directory named by
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| +JPEGTMP:, so be sure to assign JPEGTMP: to a disk partition with adequate free
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| +space.
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| +
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| +The default memory usage limit (-maxmemory) is set when the software is
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| +compiled. If you get an "insufficient memory" error, try specifying a smaller
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| +-maxmemory value, even -maxmemory 0 to use the absolute minimum space. You
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| +may want to recompile with a smaller default value if this happens often.
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| +
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| +On machines that have "environment" variables, you can define the environment
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| +variable JPEGMEM to set the default memory limit. The value is specified as
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| +described for the -maxmemory switch. JPEGMEM overrides the default value
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| +specified when the program was compiled, and itself is overridden by an
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| +explicit -maxmemory switch.
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| +
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| +On MS-DOS machines, -maxmemory is the amount of main (conventional) memory to
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| +use. (Extended or expanded memory is also used if available.) Most
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| +DOS-specific versions of this software do their own memory space estimation
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| +and do not need you to specify -maxmemory.
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| +
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| +
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| +JPEGTRAN
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| +
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| +jpegtran performs various useful transformations of JPEG files.
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| +It can translate the coded representation from one variant of JPEG to another,
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| +for example from baseline JPEG to progressive JPEG or vice versa. It can also
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| +perform some rearrangements of the image data, for example turning an image
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| +from landscape to portrait format by rotation. For EXIF files and JPEG files
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| +containing Exif data, you may prefer to use exiftran instead.
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| +
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| +jpegtran works by rearranging the compressed data (DCT coefficients), without
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| +ever fully decoding the image. Therefore, its transformations are lossless:
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| +there is no image degradation at all, which would not be true if you used
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| +djpeg followed by cjpeg to accomplish the same conversion. But by the same
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| +token, jpegtran cannot perform lossy operations such as changing the image
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| +quality. However, while the image data is losslessly transformed, metadata
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| +can be removed. See the -copy option for specifics.
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| +
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| +jpegtran uses a command line syntax similar to cjpeg or djpeg.
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| +On Unix-like systems, you say:
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| + jpegtran [switches] [inputfile] >outputfile
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| +On most non-Unix systems, you say:
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| + jpegtran [switches] inputfile outputfile
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| +where both the input and output files are JPEG files.
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| +
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| +To specify the coded JPEG representation used in the output file,
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| +jpegtran accepts a subset of the switches recognized by cjpeg:
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| + -optimize Perform optimization of entropy encoding parameters.
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| + -progressive Create progressive JPEG file.
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| + -arithmetic Use arithmetic coding.
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| + -restart N Emit a JPEG restart marker every N MCU rows, or every
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| + N MCU blocks if "B" is attached to the number.
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| + -scans file Use the scan script given in the specified text file.
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| +See the previous discussion of cjpeg for more details about these switches.
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| +If you specify none of these switches, you get a plain baseline-JPEG output
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| +file. The quality setting and so forth are determined by the input file.
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| +
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| +The image can be losslessly transformed by giving one of these switches:
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| + -flip horizontal Mirror image horizontally (left-right).
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| + -flip vertical Mirror image vertically (top-bottom).
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| + -rotate 90 Rotate image 90 degrees clockwise.
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| + -rotate 180 Rotate image 180 degrees.
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| + -rotate 270 Rotate image 270 degrees clockwise (or 90 ccw).
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| + -transpose Transpose image (across UL-to-LR axis).
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| + -transverse Transverse transpose (across UR-to-LL axis).
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| +
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| +The transpose transformation has no restrictions regarding image dimensions.
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| +The other transformations operate rather oddly if the image dimensions are not
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| +a multiple of the iMCU size (usually 8 or 16 pixels), because they can only
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| +transform complete blocks of DCT coefficient data in the desired way.
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| +
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| +jpegtran's default behavior when transforming an odd-size image is designed
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| +to preserve exact reversibility and mathematical consistency of the
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| +transformation set. As stated, transpose is able to flip the entire image
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| +area. Horizontal mirroring leaves any partial iMCU column at the right edge
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| +untouched, but is able to flip all rows of the image. Similarly, vertical
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| +mirroring leaves any partial iMCU row at the bottom edge untouched, but is
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| +able to flip all columns. The other transforms can be built up as sequences
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| +of transpose and flip operations; for consistency, their actions on edge
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| +pixels are defined to be the same as the end result of the corresponding
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| +transpose-and-flip sequence.
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| +
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| +For practical use, you may prefer to discard any untransformable edge pixels
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| +rather than having a strange-looking strip along the right and/or bottom edges
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| +of a transformed image. To do this, add the -trim switch:
|
| + -trim Drop non-transformable edge blocks.
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| +Obviously, a transformation with -trim is not reversible, so strictly speaking
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| +jpegtran with this switch is not lossless. Also, the expected mathematical
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| +equivalences between the transformations no longer hold. For example,
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| +"-rot 270 -trim" trims only the bottom edge, but "-rot 90 -trim" followed by
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| +"-rot 180 -trim" trims both edges.
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| +
|
| +If you are only interested in perfect transformations, add the -perfect switch:
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| + -perfect Fail with an error if the transformation is not
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| + perfect.
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| +For example, you may want to do
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| + jpegtran -rot 90 -perfect foo.jpg || djpeg foo.jpg | pnmflip -r90 | cjpeg
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| +to do a perfect rotation, if available, or an approximated one if not.
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| +
|
| +This version of jpegtran also offers a lossless crop option, which discards
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| +data outside of a given image region but losslessly preserves what is inside.
|
| +Like the rotate and flip transforms, lossless crop is restricted by the current
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| +JPEG format; the upper left corner of the selected region must fall on an iMCU
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| +boundary. If it doesn't, then it is silently moved up and/or left to the
|
| +nearest iMCU boundary (the lower right corner is unchanged.) Thus, the output
|
| +image covers at least the requested region, but it may cover more. The
|
| +adjustment of the region dimensions may be optionally disabled by attaching an
|
| +'f' character ("force") to the width or height number.
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| +
|
| +The image can be losslessly cropped by giving the switch:
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| + -crop WxH+X+Y Crop to a rectangular region of width W and height H,
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| + starting at point X,Y.
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| +
|
| +Other not-strictly-lossless transformation switches are:
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| +
|
| + -grayscale Force grayscale output.
|
| +This option discards the chrominance channels if the input image is YCbCr
|
| +(ie, a standard color JPEG), resulting in a grayscale JPEG file. The
|
| +luminance channel is preserved exactly, so this is a better method of reducing
|
| +to grayscale than decompression, conversion, and recompression. This switch
|
| +is particularly handy for fixing a monochrome picture that was mistakenly
|
| +encoded as a color JPEG. (In such a case, the space savings from getting rid
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| +of the near-empty chroma channels won't be large; but the decoding time for
|
| +a grayscale JPEG is substantially less than that for a color JPEG.)
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| +
|
| +jpegtran also recognizes these switches that control what to do with "extra"
|
| +markers, such as comment blocks:
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| + -copy none Copy no extra markers from source file. This setting
|
| + suppresses all comments and other metadata in the
|
| + source file.
|
| + -copy comments Copy only comment markers. This setting copies
|
| + comments from the source file but discards any other
|
| + metadata.
|
| + -copy all Copy all extra markers. This setting preserves
|
| + miscellaneous markers found in the source file, such
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| + as JFIF thumbnails, Exif data, and Photoshop settings.
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| + In some files, these extra markers can be sizable.
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| + Note that this option will copy thumbnails as-is;
|
| + they will not be transformed.
|
| +The default behavior is -copy comments. (Note: in IJG releases v6 and v6a,
|
| +jpegtran always did the equivalent of -copy none.)
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| +
|
| +Additional switches recognized by jpegtran are:
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| + -outfile filename
|
| + -maxmemory N
|
| + -verbose
|
| + -debug
|
| +These work the same as in cjpeg or djpeg.
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| +
|
| +
|
| +THE COMMENT UTILITIES
|
| +
|
| +The JPEG standard allows "comment" (COM) blocks to occur within a JPEG file.
|
| +Although the standard doesn't actually define what COM blocks are for, they
|
| +are widely used to hold user-supplied text strings. This lets you add
|
| +annotations, titles, index terms, etc to your JPEG files, and later retrieve
|
| +them as text. COM blocks do not interfere with the image stored in the JPEG
|
| +file. The maximum size of a COM block is 64K, but you can have as many of
|
| +them as you like in one JPEG file.
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| +
|
| +We provide two utility programs to display COM block contents and add COM
|
| +blocks to a JPEG file.
|
| +
|
| +rdjpgcom searches a JPEG file and prints the contents of any COM blocks on
|
| +standard output. The command line syntax is
|
| + rdjpgcom [-raw] [-verbose] [inputfilename]
|
| +The switch "-raw" (or just "-r") causes rdjpgcom to output non-printable
|
| +characters in JPEG comments. These characters are normally escaped for
|
| +security reasons.
|
| +The switch "-verbose" (or just "-v") causes rdjpgcom to also display the JPEG
|
| +image dimensions. If you omit the input file name from the command line,
|
| +the JPEG file is read from standard input. (This may not work on some
|
| +operating systems, if binary data can't be read from stdin.)
|
| +
|
| +wrjpgcom adds a COM block, containing text you provide, to a JPEG file.
|
| +Ordinarily, the COM block is added after any existing COM blocks, but you
|
| +can delete the old COM blocks if you wish. wrjpgcom produces a new JPEG
|
| +file; it does not modify the input file. DO NOT try to overwrite the input
|
| +file by directing wrjpgcom's output back into it; on most systems this will
|
| +just destroy your file.
|
| +
|
| +The command line syntax for wrjpgcom is similar to cjpeg's. On Unix-like
|
| +systems, it is
|
| + wrjpgcom [switches] [inputfilename]
|
| +The output file is written to standard output. The input file comes from
|
| +the named file, or from standard input if no input file is named.
|
| +
|
| +On most non-Unix systems, the syntax is
|
| + wrjpgcom [switches] inputfilename outputfilename
|
| +where both input and output file names must be given explicitly.
|
| +
|
| +wrjpgcom understands three switches:
|
| + -replace Delete any existing COM blocks from the file.
|
| + -comment "Comment text" Supply new COM text on command line.
|
| + -cfile name Read text for new COM block from named file.
|
| +(Switch names can be abbreviated.) If you have only one line of comment text
|
| +to add, you can provide it on the command line with -comment. The comment
|
| +text must be surrounded with quotes so that it is treated as a single
|
| +argument. Longer comments can be read from a text file.
|
| +
|
| +If you give neither -comment nor -cfile, then wrjpgcom will read the comment
|
| +text from standard input. (In this case an input image file name MUST be
|
| +supplied, so that the source JPEG file comes from somewhere else.) You can
|
| +enter multiple lines, up to 64KB worth. Type an end-of-file indicator
|
| +(usually control-D or control-Z) to terminate the comment text entry.
|
| +
|
| +wrjpgcom will not add a COM block if the provided comment string is empty.
|
| +Therefore -replace -comment "" can be used to delete all COM blocks from a
|
| +file.
|
| +
|
| +These utility programs do not depend on the IJG JPEG library. In
|
| +particular, the source code for rdjpgcom is intended as an illustration of
|
| +the minimum amount of code required to parse a JPEG file header correctly.
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|
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