RAS2TIFF
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: November 2, 2005
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NAME
ras2tiff - create a
TIFF
file from a Sun rasterfile
SYNOPSIS
ras2tiff
[
options
]
input.ras
output.tif
DESCRIPTION
ras2tiff
converts a file in the Sun rasterfile format to
TIFF.
By default, the
TIFF
image is created with data samples packed (PlanarConfiguration=1),
compressed with the Lempel-Ziv & Welch algorithm (Compression=5),
and with each strip no more than 8 kilobytes.
These characteristics can overridden, or explicitly specified
with the options described below.
Any colormap information in the rasterfile is carried over to the
TIFF
file by including a
Colormap
tag in the output file.
If the rasterfile has a colormap, the
PhotometricInterpretation
tag is set to 3 (palette);
otherwise it is set to 2 (RGB) if the depth
is 24 or 1 (min-is-black) if the depth is not 24.
OPTIONS
- -c
-
Specify a compression scheme to use when writing image data:
-c none
for no compression,
-c packbits
for the PackBits compression algorithm,
-c jpeg
for the baseline JPEG compression 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.
BUGS
Does not handle all possible rasterfiles.
In particular,
ras2tiff
does not handle run-length encoded images.
SEE ALSO
pal2rgb(1),
tiffinfo(1),
tiffcp(1),
tiffmedian(1),
libtiff(3)
Libtiff library home page:
http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/