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DJPEG(1) AMIGA (2 August 1992) DJPEG(1)
NAME
djpeg - decompress a JPEG file to an image file
SYNOPSIS
djpeg [ -colors N ] [ -gif ] [ -pnm ] [ -rle ] [ -targa ] [
-blocksmooth ] [ -grayscale ] [ -maxmemory N ] [ -nodither ]
[ -onepass ] [ -verbose ] [ -debug ] [ 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), 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.
-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).
-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
emitted if the JPEG file is gray-scale or if -grayscale
is specified; otherwise, colormapped format is emitted
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if -colors is specified; otherwise, 24-bit full-color
format is emitted.
Switches for advanced users:
-blocksmooth
Perform cross-block smoothing. This is quite memory-
intensive and only seems to improve the image at very
low quality settings (-quality 10 to 20 or so). At
normal quality settings it may make the image worse.
-grayscale
Force gray-scale output even if JPEG file is color.
Useful for viewing on monochrome displays.
-maxmemory N
Set limit for amount of memory to use in processing
large images. Value is in thousands of bytes, or
millions 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.
-nodither
Do not use dithering in color quantization. By
default, Floyd-Steinberg dithering is applied when
quantizing colors, but on some images dithering may
result in objectionable "graininess". If that happens,
you can turn off dithering with -nodither. -nodither
is ignored unless you also say -colors N.
-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).
-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,
automatically quantizes to 256 colors, and saves the output
in GIF format in foo.gif:
djpeg -gif foo.jpg > foo.gif
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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
compiled, and itself is overridden by an explicit
-maxmemory.
SEE ALSO
cjpeg(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.
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