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11<h1 align=center>GIF2TIFF</h1>
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29<p>gif2tiff &minus; create a <small>TIFF</small> file from a
30GIF87 format image file</p>
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41<p><b>gif2tiff</b> [ <i>options</i> ] <i>input.gif
42output.tif</i></p>
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53<p><i>Gif2tiff</i> converts a file in the GIF87 format to
54<small>TIFF.</small> The <small>TIFF</small> image is
55created as a palette image, with samples compressed with the
56Lempel-Ziv &amp; Welch algorithm (<i>Compression</i>=5).
57These characteristics can overridden, or explicitly
58specified with the options described below.</p>
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70<p><b>&minus;c</b></p>
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75<p>Specify a compression scheme to use when writing image
76data: <b>&minus;c none</b> for no compression, <b>&minus;c
77packbits</b> for the PackBits compression algorithm,
78<b>&minus;c zip</b> for the Deflate compression algorithm,
79and <b>&minus;c lzw</b> for Lempel-Ziv &amp; Welch (the
80default).</p>
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88<p><b>&minus;r</b></p>
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93<p>Write data with a specified number of rows per strip; by
94default the number of rows/strip is selected so that each
95strip is approximately 8 kilobytes.</p>
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108<p>The program is based on Paul Haeberli&rsquo;s
109<i>fromgif</i> program which, in turn, is based on Marcel
110J.E. Mol&rsquo;s GIF reader.</p>
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121<p>Should have more options to control output format.</p>
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132<p><b>pal2rgb</b>(1), <b>tiffinfo</b>(1), <b>tiffcp</b>(1),
133<b>tiffmedian</b>(1), <b>libtiff</b>(3)</p>
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135<p>Libtiff library home page:
136<b>http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/</b></p>
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