Category : C Source Code
Archive : FBM10.ZIP
Filename : TIFF2FBM.1
Output of file : TIFF2FBM.1 contained in archive : FBM10.ZIP
.CM 3
.SH NAME
tiff2fbm \- convert image format
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
tiff2fbm [ -
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
Converts TIFF (tagged interchange format file) images to FBM format.
Handles RGB color, mapped color, greyscale and 1bit files.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BR -
.I directory number,
specifies which directory to read in a multi-part TIFF file.
.SH REQUIRED PACKAGES
You must have the libtiff.a program library to compile
and run tiff2fbm. This package is available by anonymous FTP
from
.sp
.nf
Host: nl.cs.cmu.edu
Directory: /usr/mlm/ftp/
File: tiff.tar.Z
Transfer type: image (binary)
.fi
.sp
The package is/was also available from Berkeley by anonymous FTP.
.SH SEE ALSO
fbm(1) for general discussion, fbm2tiff(1) for opposite conversion.
.SH BUGS
Should be usable as a filter, but that would require modification of the
TIFF library, which I am unwilling to do right now.
.SH HISTORY
Copyright (C) 1989,1990 by Michael Mauldin. Permission is granted
to use this file in whole or in part for any purpose, educational,
recreational or commercial, provided that this copyright notice
is retained unchanged. This software is available to all free of
charge by anonymous FTP and in the UUNET archives.
.TP
25-Jun-90 Michael Mauldin at Carnegie Mellon University
Release 1.0 [email protected]
.TP
14-Jun-89 Michael L. Mauldin at Carnegie Mellon University
Beta release (version 0.95) [email protected]
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