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- .TH JPEGTRAN 1 "15 June 1995"
- .SH NAME
- jpegtran \- lossless transcoding of JPEG files
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .B jpegtran
- [
- .I options
- ]
- [
- .I filename
- ]
- .LP
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .LP
- .B jpegtran
- translates JPEG files from one variant of JPEG to another, for example
- from baseline JPEG to progressive JPEG. The transformation is lossless:
- no image degradation occurs, which would not be true if you used
- .B djpeg
- followed by
- .BR cjpeg .
- However, you cannot alter the image quality, because that would not be
- a lossless operation.
- .B jpegtran
- reads the named JPEG/JFIF file, or the standard input if no file is
- named, and produces a JPEG/JFIF file on the standard output.
- .SH OPTIONS
- .B jpegtran
- accepts a subset of the switches recognized by
- .BR cjpeg .
- If you specify no switches, you get a plain baseline JPEG output file.
- .PP
- All switch names may be abbreviated; for example,
- .B \-optimize
- may be written
- .B \-opt
- or
- .BR \-o .
- Upper and lower case are equivalent.
- British spellings are also accepted (e.g.,
- .BR \-optimise ),
- though for brevity these are not mentioned below.
- .PP
- The basic switches are:
- .TP
- .B \-optimize
- Perform optimization of entropy encoding parameters. Without this, default
- encoding parameters are used.
- .B \-optimize
- usually makes the JPEG file a little smaller, but at the price of slower
- compression. Note that
- .B \-progressive
- implies
- .BR \-optimize .
- .TP
- .B \-progressive
- Create progressive JPEG file (see below).
- .PP
- The
- .B \-progressive
- switch creates a "progressive JPEG" file. In this type of JPEG file, the data
- is stored in multiple scans of increasing quality. If the file is being
- transmitted over a slow communications link, the decoder can use the first
- scan to display a low-quality image very quickly, and can then improve the
- display with each subsequent scan. The final image is exactly equivalent to a
- standard JPEG file of the same quality setting, and the total file size is
- about the same --- often a little smaller.
- .B Caution:
- progressive JPEG is not yet widely implemented, so many decoders will be
- unable to view a progressive JPEG file at all.
- .PP
- Switches for advanced users:
- .TP
- .BI \-restart " N"
- Emit a JPEG restart marker every N MCU rows, or every N MCU blocks if "B" is
- attached to the number.
- .B \-restart 0
- (the default) means no restart markers.
- .TP
- .BI \-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,
- .B \-max 4m
- selects 4000000 bytes. If more space is needed, temporary files will be used.
- .TP
- .BI \-outfile " name"
- Send output image to the named file, not to standard output.
- .TP
- .B \-verbose
- Enable debug printout. More
- .BR \-v 's
- give more output. Also, version information is printed at startup.
- .TP
- .B \-debug
- Same as
- .BR \-verbose .
- .PP
- The
- .B \-restart
- option inserts extra markers that allow a JPEG decoder to resynchronize after
- a transmission error. Without restart markers, any damage to a compressed
- file will usually ruin the image from the point of the error to the end of the
- image; with restart markers, the damage is usually confined to the portion of
- the image up to the next restart marker. Of course, the restart markers
- occupy extra space. We recommend
- .B \-restart 1
- for images that will be transmitted across unreliable networks such as Usenet.
- .PP
- Switches for wizards:
- .TP
- .BI \-scans " file"
- Use the scan script given in the specified text file.
- .PP
- The "wizard" switches are intended for experimentation with JPEG. If you
- don't know what you are doing, \fBdon't use them\fR. These switches are
- documented further in the file wizard.doc.
- .SH EXAMPLES
- .LP
- This example converts a baseline JPEG file to progressive form:
- .IP
- .B jpegtran \-progressive
- .I foo.jpg
- .B >
- .I fooprog.jpg
- .SH ENVIRONMENT
- .TP
- .B JPEGMEM
- If this environment variable is set, its value is the default memory limit.
- The value is specified as described for the
- .B \-maxmemory
- switch.
- .B JPEGMEM
- overrides the default value specified when the program was compiled, and
- itself is overridden by an explicit
- .BR \-maxmemory .
- .SH SEE ALSO
- .BR cjpeg (1),
- .BR djpeg (1),
- .BR rdjpgcom (1),
- .BR wrjpgcom (1)
- .br
- Wallace, Gregory K. "The JPEG Still Picture Compression Standard",
- Communications of the ACM, April 1991 (vol. 34, no. 4), pp. 30-44.
- .SH AUTHOR
- Independent JPEG Group
- .SH BUGS
- Arithmetic coding is not supported for legal reasons.
- .PP
- Still not as fast as we'd like.
-