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author | Christoph Brill <egore911@egore911.de> | 2009-01-10 15:01:54 +0100 |
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committer | Christoph Brill <egore911@egore911.de> | 2009-01-10 15:01:54 +0100 |
commit | 3b2ae036bf3a94a6cd6e9f3713dbc7b4d19bbc47 (patch) | |
tree | 6a66313dbd63a7080f602087561ecd2b1945faa5 | |
parent | f6c6778566ad43db6abc9731a92f649cac13aebb (diff) | |
parent | fe277cb2f00ae872b828ba46ea25c1cca0d76ccc (diff) |
Merge branch 'ubuntu-patches'
-rw-r--r-- | jpegtran.1 | 50 |
1 files changed, 43 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -91,12 +91,12 @@ Transpose image (across UL-to-LR axis). .TP .B \-transverse Transverse transpose (across UR-to-LL axis). -.PP +.IP The transpose transformation has no restrictions regarding image dimensions. The other transformations operate rather oddly if the image dimensions are not a multiple of the iMCU size (usually 8 or 16 pixels), because they can only transform complete blocks of DCT coefficient data in the desired way. -.PP +.IP .BR jpegtran 's default behavior when transforming an odd-size image is designed to preserve exact reversibility and mathematical consistency of the @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ able to flip all columns. The other transforms can be built up as sequences of transpose and flip operations; for consistency, their actions on edge pixels are defined to be the same as the end result of the corresponding transpose-and-flip sequence. -.PP +.IP For practical use, you may prefer to discard any untransformable edge pixels rather than having a strange-looking strip along the right and/or bottom edges of a transformed image. To do this, add the @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ switch: .TP .B \-trim Drop non-transformable edge blocks. -.PP +.IP Obviously, a transformation with .B \-trim is not reversible, so strictly speaking @@ -130,6 +130,40 @@ trims only the bottom edge, but followed by .B \-rot 180 -trim trims both edges. +.IP +If you are only interested by perfect transformation, add the +.B \-perfect +switch: +.TP +.B \-perfect +Fails with an error if the transformation is not perfect. For example +you may want to do +.IP +.B (jpegtran \-rot 90 -perfect foo.jpg || djpeg foo.jpg| pnmflip \-r90 | cjpeg) +.IP +to do a perfect rotation if available or an approximated one if +not. +.PP +We also offer a lossless-crop option, which discards data outside a given +image region but losslessly preserves what is inside. Like the rotate and +flip transforms, lossless crop is restricted by the JPEG format: the upper +left corner of the selected region must fall on an iMCU boundary. If this +does not hold for the given crop parameters, we silently move the upper left +corner up and/or left to make it so, simultaneously increasing the region +dimensions to keep the lower right crop corner unchanged. (Thus, the +output image covers at least the requested region, but may cover more.) +.IP +Note: +.B \-perfect +and +.B lossless-crop +are enhancements from http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/ that may not be available on +non-Debian systems. +.PP +The image can be losslessly cropped by giving the switch: +.TP +.B \-crop WxH+X+Y +Crop to a rectangular subarea of width W, height H starting at point X,Y. .PP If you are only interested by perfect transformation, add the .B \-perfect @@ -169,7 +203,7 @@ Another not-strictly-lossless transformation switch is: .TP .B \-grayscale Force grayscale output. -.PP +.IP This option discards the chrominance channels if the input image is YCbCr (ie, a standard color JPEG), resulting in a grayscale JPEG file. The luminance channel is preserved exactly, so this is a better method of reducing @@ -193,9 +227,11 @@ but discards any other inessential data. .TP .B \-copy all Copy all extra markers. This setting preserves miscellaneous markers -found in the source file, such as JFIF thumbnails and Photoshop settings. +found in the source file, such as +Exif data, +JFIF thumbnails and Photoshop settings. In some files these extra markers can be sizable. -.PP +.IP The default behavior is .BR "\-copy comments" . (Note: in IJG releases v6 and v6a, |