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- .TH RDJPGCOM 1 "15 June 1995"
- .SH NAME
- rdjpgcom \- display text comments from a JPEG file
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .B rdjpgcom
- [
- .B \-verbose
- ]
- [
- .I filename
- ]
- .LP
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .LP
- .B rdjpgcom
- reads the named JPEG/JFIF file, or the standard input if no file is named,
- and prints any text comments found in the file on the standard output.
- .PP
- The JPEG standard allows "comment" (COM) blocks to occur within a JPEG file.
- Although the standard doesn't actually define what COM blocks are for, they
- are widely used to hold user-supplied text strings. This lets you add
- annotations, titles, index terms, etc to your JPEG files, and later retrieve
- them as text. COM blocks do not interfere with the image stored in the JPEG
- file. The maximum size of a COM block is 64K, but you can have as many of
- them as you like in one JPEG file.
- .SH OPTIONS
- .TP
- .B \-verbose
- Causes
- .B rdjpgcom
- to also display the JPEG image dimensions.
- .PP
- Switch names may be abbreviated, and are not case sensitive.
- .SH HINTS
- .B rdjpgcom
- does not depend on the IJG JPEG library. Its source code is intended as an
- illustration of the minimum amount of code required to parse a JPEG file
- header correctly.
- .SH SEE ALSO
- .BR cjpeg (1),
- .BR djpeg (1),
- .BR jpegtran (1),
- .BR wrjpgcom (1)
- .SH AUTHOR
- Independent JPEG Group
-