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- DJPEG(1) User Commands DJPEG(1)
-
- NAME
- djpeg - decompress a JPEG file to an image file
-
- SYNOPSIS
- djpeg [ options ] [ filename ]
-
- DESCRIPTION
- djpeg decompresses the named JPEG file, or the standard
- input if no file is named, and produces an image file on the
- standard output. PBMPLUS (PPM/PGM), BMP, GIF, Targa, or RLE
- (Utah Raster Toolkit) output format can be selected. (RLE
- is supported only if the URT library is available.)
-
- OPTIONS
- All switch names may be abbreviated; for example, -grayscale
- may be written -gray or -gr. Most of the "basic" switches
- can be abbreviated to as little as one letter. Upper and
- lower case are equivalent (thus -GIF is the same as -gif).
- British spellings are also accepted (e.g., - greyscale),
- though for brevity these are not mentioned below.
-
- The basic switches are:
-
- -colors N
- Reduce image to at most N colors. This reduces the
- number of colors used in the output image, so that it
- can be displayed on a colormapped display or stored in
- a colormapped file format. For example, if you have an
- 8-bit display, you'd need to reduce to 256 or fewer
- colors.
-
- -quantize N
- Same as -colors. -colors is the recommended name, -
- quantize is provided only for backwards compatibility.
-
- -fast
- Select recommended processing options for fast, low
- quality output. (The default options are chosen for
- highest quality output.) Currently, this is equivalent
- to -dct fast -nosmooth -onepass -dither ordered.
-
- -grayscale
- Force gray-scale output even if JPEG file is color.
- Useful for viewing on monochrome displays; also, djpeg
- runs noticeably faster in this mode.
-
- -scale M/N
- Scale the output image by a factor M/N. Currently the
- scale factor must be 1/1, 1/2, 1/4, or 1/8. Scaling is
- handy if the image is larger than your screen; also,
- djpeg runs much faster when scaling down the output.
-
- -bmp Select BMP output format (Windows flavor). 8-bit
- colormapped format is emitted if -colors or -grayscale
- is specified, or if the JPEG file is gray-scale; other-
- wise, 24-bit full-color format is emitted.
-
- -gif Select GIF output format. Since GIF does not support
- more than 256 colors, -colors 256 is assumed (unless
- you specify a smaller number of colors).
-
- -os2 Select BMP output format (OS/2 1.x flavor). 8-bit
- colormapped format is emitted if -colors or -grayscale
- is specified, or if the JPEG file is gray-scale; other-
- wise, 24-bit full-color format is emitted.
-
- -pnm Select PBMPLUS (PPM/PGM) output format (this is the
- default format). PGM is emitted if the JPEG file is
- gray-scale or if -grayscale is specified; otherwise PPM
- is emitted.
-
- -rle Select RLE output format. (Requires URT library.)
-
- -targa
- Select Targa output format. Gray-scale format is emit-
- ted if the JPEG file is gray-scale or if -grayscale is
- specified; otherwise, colormapped format is emitted if
- -colors is specified; otherwise, 24-bit full-color for-
- mat is emitted.
-
- Switches for advanced users:
-
- -dct int
- Use integer DCT method (default).
-
- -dct fast
- Use fast integer DCT (less accurate).
-
- -dct float
- Use floating-point DCT method. The float method is
- very slightly more accurate than the int method, but is
- much slower unless your machine has very fast
- floating-point hardware. Also note that results of the
- floating-point method may vary slightly across
- machines, while the integer methods should give the
- same results everywhere. The fast integer method is
- much less accurate than the other two.
-
- -dither fs
- Use Floyd-Steinberg dithering in color quantization.
-
- -dither ordered
- Use ordered dithering in color quantization.
-
- -dither none
- Do not use dithering in color quantization. By
- default, Floyd-Steinberg dithering is applied when
- quantizing colors; this is slow but usually produces
- the best results. Ordered dither is a compromise
- between speed and quality; no dithering is fast but
- usually looks awful. Note that these switches have no
- effect unless color quantization is being done.
- Ordered dither is only available in -onepass mode.
-
- -map file
- Quantize to the colors used in the specified image
- file. This is useful for producing multiple files with
- identical color maps, or for forcing a predefined set
- of colors to be used. The file must be a GIF or PPM
- file. This option overrides -colors and -onepass.
-
- -nosmooth
- Use a faster, lower-quality upsampling routine.
-
- -onepass
- Use one-pass instead of two-pass color quantization.
- The one-pass method is faster and needs less memory,
- but it produces a lower-quality image. - onepass is
- ignored unless you also say -colors N. Also, the one-
- pass method is always used for gray-scale output (the
- two-pass method is no improvement then).
-
- -maxmemory N
- Set limit for amount of memory to use in processing
- large images. Value is in thousands of bytes, or mil-
- lions of bytes if "M" is attached to the number. For
- example, -max 4m selects 4000000 bytes. If more space
- is needed, temporary files will be used.
-
- -outfile name
- Send output image to the named file, not to standard
- output.
-
- -verbose
- Enable debug printout. More - v's give more output.
- Also, version information is printed at startup.
-
- -debug
- Same as -verbose.
-
- EXAMPLES
- This example decompresses the JPEG file foo.jpg, automati-
- cally quantizes to 256 colors, and saves the output in GIF
- format in foo.gif:
-
- djpeg -gif foo.jpg > foo.gif
-
- HINTS
- To get a quick preview of an image, use the - grayscale
- and/or - scale switches. - grayscale -scale 1/8 is the
- fastest case.
-
- Several options are available that trade off image quality
- to gain speed. -fast turns on the recommended settings.
-
- -dct fast and/or -nosmooth gain speed at a small sacrifice
- in quality. When producing a color-quantized image, -
- onepass -dither ordered is fast but much lower quality than
- the default behavior. - dither none may give acceptable
- results in two-pass mode, but is seldom tolerable in one-
- pass mode.
-
- If you are fortunate enough to have very fast floating point
- hardware, -dct float may be even faster than -dct fast. But
- on most machines -dct float is slower than -dct int; in this
- case it is not worth using, because its theoretical accuracy
- advantage is too small to be significant in practice.
-
- ENVIRONMENT
- JPEGMEM
- If this environment variable is set, its value is the
- default memory limit. The value is specified as
- described for the -maxmemory switch. JPEGMEM overrides
- the default value specified when the program was com-
- piled, and itself is overridden by an explicit - max-
- memory.
-
- SEE ALSO
- cjpeg(1), jpegtran(1), rdjpgcom(1), wrjpgcom(1)
- ppm(5), pgm(5)
- Wallace, Gregory K. "The JPEG Still Picture Compression
- Standard", Communications of the ACM, April 1991 (vol. 34,
- no. 4), pp. 30-44.
-
- AUTHOR
- Independent JPEG Group
-
- BUGS
- Arithmetic coding is not supported for legal reasons.
-
- Still not as fast as we'd like.
-
- JPEG Last change: 15 June 1995 JPEG
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