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| +.TH CJPEG 1 "17 February 2016"
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| +.SH NAME
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| +cjpeg \- compress an image file to a JPEG file
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| +.SH SYNOPSIS
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| +.B cjpeg
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| +[
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| +.I options
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| +]
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| +[
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| +.I filename
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| +]
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| +.LP
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| +.SH DESCRIPTION
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| +.LP
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| +.B cjpeg
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| +compresses the named image file, or the standard input if no file is
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| +named, and produces a JPEG/JFIF file on the standard output.
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| +The currently supported input file formats are: PPM (PBMPLUS color
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| +format), PGM (PBMPLUS grayscale format), BMP, Targa, and RLE (Utah Raster
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| +Toolkit format). (RLE is supported only if the URT library is available.)
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| +.SH OPTIONS
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| +All switch names may be abbreviated; for example,
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| +.B \-grayscale
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| +may be written
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| +.B \-gray
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| +or
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| +.BR \-gr .
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| +Most of the "basic" switches can be abbreviated to as little as one letter.
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| +Upper and lower case are equivalent (thus
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| +.B \-BMP
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| +is the same as
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| +.BR \-bmp ).
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| +British spellings are also accepted (e.g.,
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| +.BR \-greyscale ),
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| +though for brevity these are not mentioned below.
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| +.PP
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| +The basic switches are:
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| +.TP
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| +.BI \-quality " N[,...]"
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| +Scale quantization tables to adjust image quality. Quality is 0 (worst) to
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| +100 (best); default is 75. (See below for more info.)
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| +.TP
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| +.B \-grayscale
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| +Create monochrome JPEG file from color input. Be sure to use this switch when
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| +compressing a grayscale BMP file, because
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| +.B cjpeg
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| +isn't bright enough to notice whether a BMP file uses only shades of gray.
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| +By saying
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| +.BR \-grayscale ,
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| +you'll get a smaller JPEG file that takes less time to process.
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| +.TP
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| +.B \-rgb
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| +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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| +.TP
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| +.B \-optimize
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| +Perform optimization of entropy encoding parameters. Without this, default
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| +encoding parameters are used.
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| +.B \-optimize
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| +usually makes the JPEG file a little smaller, but
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| +.B cjpeg
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| +runs somewhat slower and needs much more memory. Image quality and speed of
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| +decompression are unaffected by
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| +.BR \-optimize .
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| +.TP
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| +.B \-progressive
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| +Create progressive JPEG file (see below).
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| +.TP
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| +.B \-targa
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| +Input file is Targa format. Targa files that contain an "identification"
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| +field will not be automatically recognized by
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| +.BR cjpeg ;
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| +for such files you must specify
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| +.B \-targa
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| +to make
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| +.B cjpeg
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| +treat the input as Targa format.
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| +For most Targa files, you won't need this switch.
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| +.PP
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| +The
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| +.B \-quality
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| +switch lets you trade off compressed file size against quality of the
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| +reconstructed image: the higher the quality setting, the larger the JPEG file,
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| +and the closer the output image will be to the original input. Normally you
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| +want to use the lowest quality setting (smallest file) that decompresses into
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| +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
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| +.B \-quality
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| +75, then go up 5 or 10 counts at a time until you are happy with the output
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| +image. (The optimal setting will vary from one image to another.)
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| +.PP
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| +.B \-quality
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| +100 will generate a quantization table of all 1's, minimizing loss in the
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| +quantization step (but there is still information loss in subsampling, as well
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| +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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| +.PP
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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
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| +.B \-quality
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| +2 (or so) for some amusing Cubist effects. (Note: quality
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| +values below about 25 generate 2-byte quantization tables, which are
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| +considered optional in the JPEG standard.
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| +.B cjpeg
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| +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
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| +.B \-baseline
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| +if you need to ensure compatibility at low quality values.)
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| +.PP
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| +The \fB-quality\fR option has been extended in this version of \fBcjpeg\fR to
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| +support separate quality settings for luminance and chrominance (or, in
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| +general, separate settings for every quantization table slot.) The principle
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| +is the same as chrominance subsampling: since the human eye is more sensitive
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| +to 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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| +.PP
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| +The \fB-quality\fR 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.
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| +More (or customized) quantization tables can be set with the \fB-qtables\fR
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| +option and assigned to components with the \fB-qslots\fR option (see the
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| +"wizard" switches below.)
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| +.PP
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| +JPEG files generated with separate luminance and chrominance quality are fully
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| +compliant with standard JPEG decoders.
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| +.PP
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| +.BR CAUTION:
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| +For this setting to be useful, be sure to pass an argument of \fB-sample 1x1\fR
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| +to \fBcjpeg\fR to disable chrominance subsampling. Otherwise, the default
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| +subsampling level (2x2, AKA "4:2:0") will be used.
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| +.PP
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| +The
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| +.B \-progressive
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| +switch creates a "progressive JPEG" file. In this type of JPEG file, the data
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| +is stored in multiple scans of increasing quality. If the file is being
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| +transmitted over a slow communications link, the decoder can use the first
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| +scan to display a low-quality image very quickly, and can then improve the
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| +display with each subsequent scan. The final image is exactly equivalent to a
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| +standard JPEG file of the same quality setting, and the total file size is
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| +about the same --- often a little smaller.
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| +.PP
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| +Switches for advanced users:
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| +.TP
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| +.B \-arithmetic
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| +Use arithmetic coding.
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| +.B Caution:
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| +arithmetic coded JPEG is not yet widely implemented, so many decoders will be
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| +unable to view an arithmetic coded JPEG file at all.
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| +.TP
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| +.B \-dct int
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| +Use integer DCT method (default).
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| +.TP
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| +.B \-dct fast
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| +Use fast integer DCT (less accurate).
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| +In libjpeg-turbo, the fast method is generally about 5-15% faster than the int
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| +method when using the x86/x86-64 SIMD extensions (results may vary with other
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| +SIMD implementations, or when using libjpeg-turbo without SIMD extensions.)
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| +For quality levels of 90 and below, there should be little or no perceptible
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| +difference between the two algorithms. For quality levels above 90, however,
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| +the difference between the fast and the int methods becomes more pronounced.
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| +With quality=97, for instance, the fast method incurs generally about a 1-3 dB
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| +loss (in PSNR) relative to the int method, but this can be larger for some
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| +images. Do not use the fast method with quality levels above 97. The
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| +algorithm often degenerates at quality=98 and above and can actually produce a
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| +more lossy image than if lower quality levels had been used. Also, in
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| +libjpeg-turbo, the fast method is not fully accelerated for quality levels
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| +above 97, so it will be slower than the int method.
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| +.TP
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| +.B \-dct float
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| +Use floating-point DCT method.
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| +The float method is mainly a legacy feature. It does not produce significantly
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| +more accurate results than the int method, and it is much slower. The float
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| +method may also give different results on different machines due to varying
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| +roundoff behavior, whereas the integer methods should give the same results on
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| +all machines.
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| +.TP
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| +.BI \-restart " N"
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| +Emit a JPEG restart marker every N MCU rows, or every N MCU blocks if "B" is
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| +attached to the number.
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| +.B \-restart 0
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| +(the default) means no restart markers.
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| +.TP
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| +.BI \-smooth " N"
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| +Smooth the input image to eliminate dithering noise. N, ranging from 1 to
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| +100, indicates the strength of smoothing. 0 (the default) means no smoothing.
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| +.TP
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| +.BI \-maxmemory " N"
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| +Set limit for amount of memory to use in processing large images. Value is
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| +in thousands of bytes, or millions of bytes if "M" is attached to the
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| +number. For example,
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| +.B \-max 4m
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| +selects 4000000 bytes. If more space is needed, temporary files will be used.
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| +.TP
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| +.BI \-outfile " name"
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| +Send output image to the named file, not to standard output.
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| +.TP
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| +.BI \-memdst
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| +Compress to memory instead of a file. This feature was implemented mainly as a
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| +way of testing the in-memory destination manager (jpeg_mem_dest()), but it is
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| +also useful for benchmarking, since it reduces the I/O overhead.
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| +.TP
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| +.B \-verbose
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| +Enable debug printout. More
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| +.BR \-v 's
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| +give more output. Also, version information is printed at startup.
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| +.TP
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| +.B \-debug
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| +Same as
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| +.BR \-verbose .
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| +.TP
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| +.B \-version
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| +Print version information and exit.
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| +.PP
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| +The
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| +.B \-restart
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| +option inserts extra markers that allow a JPEG decoder to resynchronize after
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| +a transmission error. Without restart markers, any damage to a compressed
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| +file will usually ruin the image from the point of the error to the end of the
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| +image; with restart markers, the damage is usually confined to the portion of
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| +the image up to the next restart marker. Of course, the restart markers
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| +occupy extra space. We recommend
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| +.B \-restart 1
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| +for images that will be transmitted across unreliable networks such as Usenet.
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| +.PP
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| +The
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| +.B \-smooth
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| +option filters the input to eliminate fine-scale noise. This is often useful
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| +when converting dithered images to JPEG: a moderate smoothing factor of 10 to
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| +50 gets rid of dithering patterns in the input file, resulting in a smaller
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| +JPEG file and a better-looking image. Too large a smoothing factor will
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| +visibly blur the image, however.
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| +.PP
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| +Switches for wizards:
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| +.TP
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| +.B \-baseline
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| +Force baseline-compatible quantization tables to be generated. This clamps
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| +quantization values to 8 bits even at low quality settings. (This switch is
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| +poorly named, since it does not ensure that the output is actually baseline
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| +JPEG. For example, you can use
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| +.B \-baseline
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| +and
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| +.B \-progressive
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| +together.)
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| +.TP
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| +.BI \-qtables " file"
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| +Use the quantization tables given in the specified text file.
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| +.TP
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| +.BI \-qslots " N[,...]"
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| +Select which quantization table to use for each color component.
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| +.TP
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| +.BI \-sample " HxV[,...]"
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| +Set JPEG sampling factors for each color component.
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| +.TP
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| +.BI \-scans " file"
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| +Use the scan script given in the specified text file.
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| +.PP
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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, \fBdon't use them\fR. These switches are
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| +documented further in the file wizard.txt.
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| +.SH EXAMPLES
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| +.LP
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| +This example compresses the PPM file foo.ppm with a quality factor of
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| +60 and saves the output as foo.jpg:
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| +.IP
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| +.B cjpeg \-quality
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| +.I 60 foo.ppm
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| +.B >
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| +.I foo.jpg
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| +.SH HINTS
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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
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| +.BR cjpeg 's
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| +.B \-quality
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| +and
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| +.B \-smooth
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| +options to get a satisfactory conversion.
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| +.B \-smooth 10
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| +or so is often helpful.
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| +.PP
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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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| +.PP
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| +The
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| +.B \-optimize
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| +option to
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| +.B cjpeg
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| +is worth using when you are making a "final" version for posting or archiving.
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| +It's also a win when you are using low quality settings to make very small
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| +JPEG files; the percentage improvement is often a lot more than it is on
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| +larger files. (At present,
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| +.B \-optimize
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| +mode is always selected when generating progressive JPEG files.)
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| +.SH ENVIRONMENT
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| +.TP
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| +.B JPEGMEM
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| +If this environment variable is set, its value is the default memory limit.
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| +The value is specified as described for the
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| +.B \-maxmemory
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| +switch.
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| +.B JPEGMEM
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| +overrides the default value specified when the program was compiled, and
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| +itself is overridden by an explicit
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| +.BR \-maxmemory .
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| +.SH SEE ALSO
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| +.BR djpeg (1),
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| +.BR jpegtran (1),
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| +.BR rdjpgcom (1),
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| +.BR wrjpgcom (1)
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| +.br
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| +.BR ppm (5),
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| +.BR pgm (5)
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| +.br
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| +Wallace, Gregory K. "The JPEG Still Picture Compression Standard",
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| +Communications of the ACM, April 1991 (vol. 34, no. 4), pp. 30-44.
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| +.SH AUTHOR
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| +Independent JPEG Group
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| +.PP
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| +This file was modified by The libjpeg-turbo Project to include only information
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| +relevant to libjpeg-turbo, to wordsmith certain sections, and to describe
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| +features not present in libjpeg.
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| +.SH ISSUES
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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, since GIF is a 256-color format.)
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| +.PP
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| +Not all variants of BMP and Targa file formats are supported.
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| +.PP
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| +The
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| +.B \-targa
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| +switch is not a bug, it's a feature. (It would be a bug if the Targa format
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| +designers had not been clueless.)
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