1 .TH DJPEG 1 "3 October 2009"
3 djpeg \- decompress a JPEG file to an image file
16 decompresses the named JPEG file, or the standard input if no file is named,
17 and produces an image file on the standard output. PBMPLUS (PPM/PGM), BMP,
18 GIF, Targa, or RLE (Utah Raster Toolkit) output format can be selected.
19 (RLE is supported only if the URT library is available.)
21 All switch names may be abbreviated; for example,
27 Most of the "basic" switches can be abbreviated to as little as one letter.
28 Upper and lower case are equivalent (thus
32 British spellings are also accepted (e.g.,
34 though for brevity these are not mentioned below.
36 The basic switches are:
39 Reduce image to at most N colors. This reduces the number of colors used in
40 the output image, so that it can be displayed on a colormapped display or
41 stored in a colormapped file format. For example, if you have an 8-bit
42 display, you'd need to reduce to 256 or fewer colors.
48 is the recommended name,
50 is provided only for backwards compatibility.
53 Select recommended processing options for fast, low quality output. (The
54 default options are chosen for highest quality output.) Currently, this is
55 equivalent to \fB\-dct fast \-nosmooth \-onepass \-dither ordered\fR.
58 Force gray-scale output even if JPEG file is color. Useful for viewing on
59 monochrome displays; also,
61 runs noticeably faster in this mode.
64 Scale the output image by a factor M/N. Currently supported scale factors are
65 M/N with all M from 1 to 16, where N is the source DCT size, which is 8 for
66 baseline JPEG. If the /N part is omitted, then M specifies the DCT scaled
67 size to be applied on the given input. For baseline JPEG this is equivalent
68 to M/8 scaling, since the source DCT size for baseline JPEG is 8.
69 Scaling is handy if the image is larger than your screen; also,
71 runs much faster when scaling down the output.
74 Select BMP output format (Windows flavor). 8-bit colormapped format is
79 is specified, or if the JPEG file is gray-scale; otherwise, 24-bit full-color
83 Select GIF output format. Since GIF does not support more than 256 colors,
85 is assumed (unless you specify a smaller number of colors).
88 Select BMP output format (OS/2 1.x flavor). 8-bit colormapped format is
93 is specified, or if the JPEG file is gray-scale; otherwise, 24-bit full-color
97 Select PBMPLUS (PPM/PGM) output format (this is the default format).
98 PGM is emitted if the JPEG file is gray-scale or if
100 is specified; otherwise PPM is emitted.
103 Select RLE output format. (Requires URT library.)
106 Select Targa output format. Gray-scale format is emitted if the JPEG file is
109 is specified; otherwise, colormapped format is emitted if
111 is specified; otherwise, 24-bit full-color format is emitted.
113 Switches for advanced users:
116 Use integer DCT method (default).
119 Use fast integer DCT (less accurate).
122 Use floating-point DCT method.
123 The float method is very slightly more accurate than the int method, but is
124 much slower unless your machine has very fast floating-point hardware. Also
125 note that results of the floating-point method may vary slightly across
126 machines, while the integer methods should give the same results everywhere.
127 The fast integer method is much less accurate than the other two.
130 Use Floyd-Steinberg dithering in color quantization.
133 Use ordered dithering in color quantization.
136 Do not use dithering in color quantization.
137 By default, Floyd-Steinberg dithering is applied when quantizing colors; this
138 is slow but usually produces the best results. Ordered dither is a compromise
139 between speed and quality; no dithering is fast but usually looks awful. Note
140 that these switches have no effect unless color quantization is being done.
141 Ordered dither is only available in
146 Quantize to the colors used in the specified image file. This is useful for
147 producing multiple files with identical color maps, or for forcing a
148 predefined set of colors to be used. The
150 must be a GIF or PPM file. This option overrides
156 Don't use high-quality upsampling.
159 Use one-pass instead of two-pass color quantization. The one-pass method is
160 faster and needs less memory, but it produces a lower-quality image.
162 is ignored unless you also say
165 Also, the one-pass method is always used for gray-scale output (the two-pass
166 method is no improvement then).
169 Set limit for amount of memory to use in processing large images. Value is
170 in thousands of bytes, or millions of bytes if "M" is attached to the
173 selects 4000000 bytes. If more space is needed, temporary files will be used.
175 .BI \-outfile " name"
176 Send output image to the named file, not to standard output.
179 Enable debug printout. More
181 give more output. Also, version information is printed at startup.
188 This example decompresses the JPEG file foo.jpg, quantizes it to
189 256 colors, and saves the output in 8-bit BMP format in foo.bmp:
191 .B djpeg \-colors 256 \-bmp
196 To get a quick preview of an image, use the
201 .B \-grayscale \-scale 1/8
204 Several options are available that trade off image quality to gain speed.
206 turns on the recommended settings.
211 gain speed at a small sacrifice in quality.
212 When producing a color-quantized image,
213 .B \-onepass \-dither ordered
214 is fast but much lower quality than the default behavior.
216 may give acceptable results in two-pass mode, but is seldom tolerable in
219 If you are fortunate enough to have very fast floating point hardware,
220 \fB\-dct float\fR may be even faster than \fB\-dct fast\fR. But on most
221 machines \fB\-dct float\fR is slower than \fB\-dct int\fR; in this case it is
222 not worth using, because its theoretical accuracy advantage is too small to be
223 significant in practice.
227 If this environment variable is set, its value is the default memory limit.
228 The value is specified as described for the
232 overrides the default value specified when the program was compiled, and
233 itself is overridden by an explicit
244 Wallace, Gregory K. "The JPEG Still Picture Compression Standard",
245 Communications of the ACM, April 1991 (vol. 34, no. 4), pp. 30-44.
247 Independent JPEG Group
249 To avoid the Unisys LZW patent,
251 produces uncompressed GIF files. These are larger than they should be, but
252 are readable by standard GIF decoders.