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Mac OS X in a Nutshell
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Mac OS X in a Nutshell

by Jason McIntosh, Chuck Toporek, Chris Stone
January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
32h 40m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

tiffutil

Synopsis

tiffutil { -dump | -info | -verboseinfo } input_file...
tiffutil { -extract  number | -jpeg [-fN] | -lzw | -none | 
-packbits } input_file [-out output_file]
tiffutil -cat input_file... [-out output_file]

Manipulates TIFF image files.

Options

-cat

Concatenates multiple input files.

-dump

Prints a list of all tags in the input file to standard output.

-extract

Extracts an individual image from the input file, with 0 designating the first image in the file.

-f

Specifies the compression factor to use with JPEG compression. The value can range from 1 to 255. The default is 10.

-info

Prints information about images in the input file to standard output.

-jpeg

Specifies the use of JPEG compression when producing the output file.

-lzw

Specifies the use of Lempel-Ziv-Welch compression when producing the output file.

-none

Specifies the use of no compression when producing the output file.

-output

Specifies the name of the output file; defaults to out.tiff.

-packbits

Specifies the use of PackBits compression when producing the output file.

-verboseinfo

Prints lots of information about images in the input file to standard output.

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