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| 1 .TH CJPEG 1 "17 February 2016" |
| 2 .SH NAME |
| 3 cjpeg \- compress an image file to a JPEG file |
| 4 .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 5 .B cjpeg |
| 6 [ |
| 7 .I options |
| 8 ] |
| 9 [ |
| 10 .I filename |
| 11 ] |
| 12 .LP |
| 13 .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 14 .LP |
| 15 .B cjpeg |
| 16 compresses the named image file, or the standard input if no file is |
| 17 named, and produces a JPEG/JFIF file on the standard output. |
| 18 The currently supported input file formats are: PPM (PBMPLUS color |
| 19 format), PGM (PBMPLUS grayscale format), BMP, Targa, and RLE (Utah Raster |
| 20 Toolkit format). (RLE is supported only if the URT library is available.) |
| 21 .SH OPTIONS |
| 22 All switch names may be abbreviated; for example, |
| 23 .B \-grayscale |
| 24 may be written |
| 25 .B \-gray |
| 26 or |
| 27 .BR \-gr . |
| 28 Most of the "basic" switches can be abbreviated to as little as one letter. |
| 29 Upper and lower case are equivalent (thus |
| 30 .B \-BMP |
| 31 is the same as |
| 32 .BR \-bmp ). |
| 33 British spellings are also accepted (e.g., |
| 34 .BR \-greyscale ), |
| 35 though for brevity these are not mentioned below. |
| 36 .PP |
| 37 The basic switches are: |
| 38 .TP |
| 39 .BI \-quality " N[,...]" |
| 40 Scale quantization tables to adjust image quality. Quality is 0 (worst) to |
| 41 100 (best); default is 75. (See below for more info.) |
| 42 .TP |
| 43 .B \-grayscale |
| 44 Create monochrome JPEG file from color input. Be sure to use this switch when |
| 45 compressing a grayscale BMP file, because |
| 46 .B cjpeg |
| 47 isn't bright enough to notice whether a BMP file uses only shades of gray. |
| 48 By saying |
| 49 .BR \-grayscale , |
| 50 you'll get a smaller JPEG file that takes less time to process. |
| 51 .TP |
| 52 .B \-rgb |
| 53 Create RGB JPEG file. |
| 54 Using this switch suppresses the conversion from RGB |
| 55 colorspace input to the default YCbCr JPEG colorspace. |
| 56 .TP |
| 57 .B \-optimize |
| 58 Perform optimization of entropy encoding parameters. Without this, default |
| 59 encoding parameters are used. |
| 60 .B \-optimize |
| 61 usually makes the JPEG file a little smaller, but |
| 62 .B cjpeg |
| 63 runs somewhat slower and needs much more memory. Image quality and speed of |
| 64 decompression are unaffected by |
| 65 .BR \-optimize . |
| 66 .TP |
| 67 .B \-progressive |
| 68 Create progressive JPEG file (see below). |
| 69 .TP |
| 70 .B \-targa |
| 71 Input file is Targa format. Targa files that contain an "identification" |
| 72 field will not be automatically recognized by |
| 73 .BR cjpeg ; |
| 74 for such files you must specify |
| 75 .B \-targa |
| 76 to make |
| 77 .B cjpeg |
| 78 treat the input as Targa format. |
| 79 For most Targa files, you won't need this switch. |
| 80 .PP |
| 81 The |
| 82 .B \-quality |
| 83 switch lets you trade off compressed file size against quality of the |
| 84 reconstructed image: the higher the quality setting, the larger the JPEG file, |
| 85 and the closer the output image will be to the original input. Normally you |
| 86 want to use the lowest quality setting (smallest file) that decompresses into |
| 87 something visually indistinguishable from the original image. For this |
| 88 purpose the quality setting should generally be between 50 and 95 (the default |
| 89 is 75) for photographic images. If you see defects at |
| 90 .B \-quality |
| 91 75, then go up 5 or 10 counts at a time until you are happy with the output |
| 92 image. (The optimal setting will vary from one image to another.) |
| 93 .PP |
| 94 .B \-quality |
| 95 100 will generate a quantization table of all 1's, minimizing loss in the |
| 96 quantization step (but there is still information loss in subsampling, as well |
| 97 as roundoff error.) For most images, specifying a quality value above |
| 98 about 95 will increase the size of the compressed file dramatically, and while |
| 99 the quality gain from these higher quality values is measurable (using metrics |
| 100 such as PSNR or SSIM), it is rarely perceivable by human vision. |
| 101 .PP |
| 102 In the other direction, quality values below 50 will produce very small files |
| 103 of low image quality. Settings around 5 to 10 might be useful in preparing an |
| 104 index of a large image library, for example. Try |
| 105 .B \-quality |
| 106 2 (or so) for some amusing Cubist effects. (Note: quality |
| 107 values below about 25 generate 2-byte quantization tables, which are |
| 108 considered optional in the JPEG standard. |
| 109 .B cjpeg |
| 110 emits a warning message when you give such a quality value, because some |
| 111 other JPEG programs may be unable to decode the resulting file. Use |
| 112 .B \-baseline |
| 113 if you need to ensure compatibility at low quality values.) |
| 114 .PP |
| 115 The \fB-quality\fR option has been extended in this version of \fBcjpeg\fR to |
| 116 support separate quality settings for luminance and chrominance (or, in |
| 117 general, separate settings for every quantization table slot.) The principle |
| 118 is the same as chrominance subsampling: since the human eye is more sensitive |
| 119 to spatial changes in brightness than spatial changes in color, the chrominance |
| 120 components can be quantized more than the luminance components without |
| 121 incurring any visible image quality loss. However, unlike subsampling, this |
| 122 feature reduces data in the frequency domain instead of the spatial domain, |
| 123 which allows for more fine-grained control. This option is useful in |
| 124 quality-sensitive applications, for which the artifacts generated by |
| 125 subsampling may be unacceptable. |
| 126 .PP |
| 127 The \fB-quality\fR option accepts a comma-separated list of parameters, which |
| 128 respectively refer to the quality levels that should be assigned to the |
| 129 quantization table slots. If there are more q-table slots than parameters, |
| 130 then the last parameter is replicated. Thus, if only one quality parameter is |
| 131 given, this is used for both luminance and chrominance (slots 0 and 1, |
| 132 respectively), preserving the legacy behavior of cjpeg v6b and prior. |
| 133 More (or customized) quantization tables can be set with the \fB-qtables\fR |
| 134 option and assigned to components with the \fB-qslots\fR option (see the |
| 135 "wizard" switches below.) |
| 136 .PP |
| 137 JPEG files generated with separate luminance and chrominance quality are fully |
| 138 compliant with standard JPEG decoders. |
| 139 .PP |
| 140 .BR CAUTION: |
| 141 For this setting to be useful, be sure to pass an argument of \fB-sample 1x1\fR |
| 142 to \fBcjpeg\fR to disable chrominance subsampling. Otherwise, the default |
| 143 subsampling level (2x2, AKA "4:2:0") will be used. |
| 144 .PP |
| 145 The |
| 146 .B \-progressive |
| 147 switch creates a "progressive JPEG" file. In this type of JPEG file, the data |
| 148 is stored in multiple scans of increasing quality. If the file is being |
| 149 transmitted over a slow communications link, the decoder can use the first |
| 150 scan to display a low-quality image very quickly, and can then improve the |
| 151 display with each subsequent scan. The final image is exactly equivalent to a |
| 152 standard JPEG file of the same quality setting, and the total file size is |
| 153 about the same --- often a little smaller. |
| 154 .PP |
| 155 Switches for advanced users: |
| 156 .TP |
| 157 .B \-arithmetic |
| 158 Use arithmetic coding. |
| 159 .B Caution: |
| 160 arithmetic coded JPEG is not yet widely implemented, so many decoders will be |
| 161 unable to view an arithmetic coded JPEG file at all. |
| 162 .TP |
| 163 .B \-dct int |
| 164 Use integer DCT method (default). |
| 165 .TP |
| 166 .B \-dct fast |
| 167 Use fast integer DCT (less accurate). |
| 168 In libjpeg-turbo, the fast method is generally about 5-15% faster than the int |
| 169 method when using the x86/x86-64 SIMD extensions (results may vary with other |
| 170 SIMD implementations, or when using libjpeg-turbo without SIMD extensions.) |
| 171 For quality levels of 90 and below, there should be little or no perceptible |
| 172 difference between the two algorithms. For quality levels above 90, however, |
| 173 the difference between the fast and the int methods becomes more pronounced. |
| 174 With quality=97, for instance, the fast method incurs generally about a 1-3 dB |
| 175 loss (in PSNR) relative to the int method, but this can be larger for some |
| 176 images. Do not use the fast method with quality levels above 97. The |
| 177 algorithm often degenerates at quality=98 and above and can actually produce a |
| 178 more lossy image than if lower quality levels had been used. Also, in |
| 179 libjpeg-turbo, the fast method is not fully accelerated for quality levels |
| 180 above 97, so it will be slower than the int method. |
| 181 .TP |
| 182 .B \-dct float |
| 183 Use floating-point DCT method. |
| 184 The float method is mainly a legacy feature. It does not produce significantly |
| 185 more accurate results than the int method, and it is much slower. The float |
| 186 method may also give different results on different machines due to varying |
| 187 roundoff behavior, whereas the integer methods should give the same results on |
| 188 all machines. |
| 189 .TP |
| 190 .BI \-restart " N" |
| 191 Emit a JPEG restart marker every N MCU rows, or every N MCU blocks if "B" is |
| 192 attached to the number. |
| 193 .B \-restart 0 |
| 194 (the default) means no restart markers. |
| 195 .TP |
| 196 .BI \-smooth " N" |
| 197 Smooth the input image to eliminate dithering noise. N, ranging from 1 to |
| 198 100, indicates the strength of smoothing. 0 (the default) means no smoothing. |
| 199 .TP |
| 200 .BI \-maxmemory " N" |
| 201 Set limit for amount of memory to use in processing large images. Value is |
| 202 in thousands of bytes, or millions of bytes if "M" is attached to the |
| 203 number. For example, |
| 204 .B \-max 4m |
| 205 selects 4000000 bytes. If more space is needed, temporary files will be used. |
| 206 .TP |
| 207 .BI \-outfile " name" |
| 208 Send output image to the named file, not to standard output. |
| 209 .TP |
| 210 .BI \-memdst |
| 211 Compress to memory instead of a file. This feature was implemented mainly as a |
| 212 way of testing the in-memory destination manager (jpeg_mem_dest()), but it is |
| 213 also useful for benchmarking, since it reduces the I/O overhead. |
| 214 .TP |
| 215 .B \-verbose |
| 216 Enable debug printout. More |
| 217 .BR \-v 's |
| 218 give more output. Also, version information is printed at startup. |
| 219 .TP |
| 220 .B \-debug |
| 221 Same as |
| 222 .BR \-verbose . |
| 223 .TP |
| 224 .B \-version |
| 225 Print version information and exit. |
| 226 .PP |
| 227 The |
| 228 .B \-restart |
| 229 option inserts extra markers that allow a JPEG decoder to resynchronize after |
| 230 a transmission error. Without restart markers, any damage to a compressed |
| 231 file will usually ruin the image from the point of the error to the end of the |
| 232 image; with restart markers, the damage is usually confined to the portion of |
| 233 the image up to the next restart marker. Of course, the restart markers |
| 234 occupy extra space. We recommend |
| 235 .B \-restart 1 |
| 236 for images that will be transmitted across unreliable networks such as Usenet. |
| 237 .PP |
| 238 The |
| 239 .B \-smooth |
| 240 option filters the input to eliminate fine-scale noise. This is often useful |
| 241 when converting dithered images to JPEG: a moderate smoothing factor of 10 to |
| 242 50 gets rid of dithering patterns in the input file, resulting in a smaller |
| 243 JPEG file and a better-looking image. Too large a smoothing factor will |
| 244 visibly blur the image, however. |
| 245 .PP |
| 246 Switches for wizards: |
| 247 .TP |
| 248 .B \-baseline |
| 249 Force baseline-compatible quantization tables to be generated. This clamps |
| 250 quantization values to 8 bits even at low quality settings. (This switch is |
| 251 poorly named, since it does not ensure that the output is actually baseline |
| 252 JPEG. For example, you can use |
| 253 .B \-baseline |
| 254 and |
| 255 .B \-progressive |
| 256 together.) |
| 257 .TP |
| 258 .BI \-qtables " file" |
| 259 Use the quantization tables given in the specified text file. |
| 260 .TP |
| 261 .BI \-qslots " N[,...]" |
| 262 Select which quantization table to use for each color component. |
| 263 .TP |
| 264 .BI \-sample " HxV[,...]" |
| 265 Set JPEG sampling factors for each color component. |
| 266 .TP |
| 267 .BI \-scans " file" |
| 268 Use the scan script given in the specified text file. |
| 269 .PP |
| 270 The "wizard" switches are intended for experimentation with JPEG. If you |
| 271 don't know what you are doing, \fBdon't use them\fR. These switches are |
| 272 documented further in the file wizard.txt. |
| 273 .SH EXAMPLES |
| 274 .LP |
| 275 This example compresses the PPM file foo.ppm with a quality factor of |
| 276 60 and saves the output as foo.jpg: |
| 277 .IP |
| 278 .B cjpeg \-quality |
| 279 .I 60 foo.ppm |
| 280 .B > |
| 281 .I foo.jpg |
| 282 .SH HINTS |
| 283 Color GIF files are not the ideal input for JPEG; JPEG is really intended for |
| 284 compressing full-color (24-bit) images. In particular, don't try to convert |
| 285 cartoons, line drawings, and other images that have only a few distinct |
| 286 colors. GIF works great on these, JPEG does not. If you want to convert a |
| 287 GIF to JPEG, you should experiment with |
| 288 .BR cjpeg 's |
| 289 .B \-quality |
| 290 and |
| 291 .B \-smooth |
| 292 options to get a satisfactory conversion. |
| 293 .B \-smooth 10 |
| 294 or so is often helpful. |
| 295 .PP |
| 296 Avoid running an image through a series of JPEG compression/decompression |
| 297 cycles. Image quality loss will accumulate; after ten or so cycles the image |
| 298 may be noticeably worse than it was after one cycle. It's best to use a |
| 299 lossless format while manipulating an image, then convert to JPEG format when |
| 300 you are ready to file the image away. |
| 301 .PP |
| 302 The |
| 303 .B \-optimize |
| 304 option to |
| 305 .B cjpeg |
| 306 is worth using when you are making a "final" version for posting or archiving. |
| 307 It's also a win when you are using low quality settings to make very small |
| 308 JPEG files; the percentage improvement is often a lot more than it is on |
| 309 larger files. (At present, |
| 310 .B \-optimize |
| 311 mode is always selected when generating progressive JPEG files.) |
| 312 .SH ENVIRONMENT |
| 313 .TP |
| 314 .B JPEGMEM |
| 315 If this environment variable is set, its value is the default memory limit. |
| 316 The value is specified as described for the |
| 317 .B \-maxmemory |
| 318 switch. |
| 319 .B JPEGMEM |
| 320 overrides the default value specified when the program was compiled, and |
| 321 itself is overridden by an explicit |
| 322 .BR \-maxmemory . |
| 323 .SH SEE ALSO |
| 324 .BR djpeg (1), |
| 325 .BR jpegtran (1), |
| 326 .BR rdjpgcom (1), |
| 327 .BR wrjpgcom (1) |
| 328 .br |
| 329 .BR ppm (5), |
| 330 .BR pgm (5) |
| 331 .br |
| 332 Wallace, Gregory K. "The JPEG Still Picture Compression Standard", |
| 333 Communications of the ACM, April 1991 (vol. 34, no. 4), pp. 30-44. |
| 334 .SH AUTHOR |
| 335 Independent JPEG Group |
| 336 .PP |
| 337 This file was modified by The libjpeg-turbo Project to include only information |
| 338 relevant to libjpeg-turbo, to wordsmith certain sections, and to describe |
| 339 features not present in libjpeg. |
| 340 .SH ISSUES |
| 341 Support for GIF input files was removed in cjpeg v6b due to concerns over |
| 342 the Unisys LZW patent. Although this patent expired in 2006, cjpeg still |
| 343 lacks GIF support, for these historical reasons. (Conversion of GIF files to |
| 344 JPEG is usually a bad idea anyway, since GIF is a 256-color format.) |
| 345 .PP |
| 346 Not all variants of BMP and Targa file formats are supported. |
| 347 .PP |
| 348 The |
| 349 .B \-targa |
| 350 switch is not a bug, it's a feature. (It would be a bug if the Targa format |
| 351 designers had not been clueless.) |
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