gif2tiff(1)

NAME

       gif2tiff - create a TIFF file from a GIF87 format image file

SYNOPSIS

       gif2tiff [ options ] input.gif output.tif

DESCRIPTION

       Gif2tiff  converts  a file in the GIF87 format to TIFF.  The TIFF image
       is created as a palette image, with samples compressed with the Lempel-
       Ziv & Welch algorithm (Compression=5).  These characteristics can over-
       riden, or explicitly specified with the options described below.

OPTIONS

       -c     Specify a compression scheme to use when writing image data:  -c
              none  for  no compression, -c packbits for the PackBits compres-
              sion algorithm, -c zip for the  Deflate  compression  algorithm,
              and -c lzw for Lempel-Ziv & Welch (the default).

       -r     Write data with a specified number of rows per strip; by default
              the number of rows/strip is  selected  so  that  each  strip  is
              approximately 8 kilobytes.

NOTES

       The program is based on Paul Haeberli's fromgif program which, in turn,
       is based on Marcel J.E. Mol's GIF reader.

BUGS

       Should have more options to control output format.

SEE ALSO

       pal2rgb(1), tiffinfo(1), tiffcp(1), tiffmedian(1), libtiff(3)

                               October 15, 1995                    GIF2TIFF(1)