1 MCONVERT Converts an input file using one image format to an output file with a differing image format. SYNOPSIS $ mconvert [ options ... ] input_file output_file 2 DESCRIPTION Mconvert converts an input file using one image format to an output file with a differing image format. convert recognizes the following image formats: Tag Description ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVS AVS X image file. BMP Microsoft Windows bitmap image file. CMYK Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black bytes. EPS Adobe Encapsulated PostScript file. EPSF Adobe Encapsulated PostScript file. EPSI Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format. FAX Group 3. FITS Flexible Image Transport System. GIF Compuserve Graphics image file. GIF87 Compuserve Graphics image file (version 87a). GRAY Raw gray bytes. HISTOGRAM IRIS SGI RGB image file. JPEG MAP Red, green, and blue colormap bytes followed by the image colormap indexes. MATTE Raw matte bytes. MIFF Magick image file format. MTV NULL NULL image. PCD Photo CD. PCX ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file. PICT Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file. PNM Portable bitmap. PS Adobe PostScript file. PS2 Adobe Level II PostScript file. RAD Radiance image format. RGB Raw red, green, and blue bytes. RLE Utah Run length encoded image file; read only. SUN SUN Rasterfile. TEXT raw text file; read only. TGA Truevision Targa image file. TIFF Tagged Image File Format. VICAR read only. VID Visual Image Directory. VIFF Khoros Visualization image file. X select image from X server screen. XC constant image of X server color. Specify the desired color as the filename. XBM X11 bitmap file. XPM X11 pixmap file. XWD X Window System window dump image file. YUV CCIR 601 4:1:1 file. YUV3 CCIR-601 4:1:1 files. 2 EXAMPLES To convert a MIFF image of a cockatoo to a SUN raster image, use: $ mconvert cockatoo.miff sun:cockatoo.ras To convert a multi-page Postscript document to individual FAX pages, use: $ mconvert -monochrome document.ps fax:page To convert a TIFF image to a Postscript A4 page with the image in the lower left-hand corner, use: $ mconvert -page 595x842+0+0 image.tiff document.ps To convert a raw GRAY image to a portable graymap, use: $ mconvert -size 768x512 gray:raw image.pgm To convert a Photo CD image to a TIFF image, use: $ mconvert -size 1536x1024 img0009.pcd image.tiff $ mconvert img0009.pcd[4] image.tiff To create a visual image directory of all your JPEG images, use: $ mconvert 'vid:*.jpg' directory.miff To identify the dimensions and the type of an image file, use: $ mconvert -verbose image null: 2 OPTIONS -blur blur the image. -border x surround the image with a border or color. See X(1) for details about the geometry specification. The color of the border is obtained from the X server and is defined as bordercolor (class borderColor). See X(1) for details. -colors value preferred number of colors in the image. The actual number of colors in the image may be less than your request, but never more. Note, this is a color reduction option. Images with less unique colors than specified with this option will remain unchanged. Refer to quantize(9) for more details. Note, options -dither, -colorspace, and -treedepth affect the color reduction algorithm. -colorspace value the type of colorspace: GRAY, OHTA, RGB, XYZ, YCbCr, YIQ, YPbPr, or YUV. Color reduction, by default, takes place in the RGB color space. Empirical evidence suggests that distances in color spaces such as YUV or YIQ correspond to perceptual color differences more closely than do distances in RGB space. These color spaces may give better results when color reducing an image. Refer to quantize(9) for more details. The -colors or -monochrome option is required for this option to take effect. -comment string annotate an image with a comment. By default, each image is commented with its file name. Use this option to assign a specific comment to the image. Optionally you can include the image filename, type, width, height, or scene number by embedding special format characters. Embed %f for filename, %m for magick, %w for width, %h for height, %s for scene number, or \n for newline. For example, -comment "%m:%f %wx%h" produces an image comment of MIFF:bird.miff 512x480 for an image titled bird.miff and whose width is 512 and height is 480. If the first character of string is @, the image comment is read from a file titled by the remaining characters in the string. -compress type the type of image compression: QEncoded or RunlengthEncoded. Specify +compress to store the binary image in an uncompressed format. The default is the compression type of the specified image file. -contrast enhance or reduce the image contrast. This option enhances the intensity differences between the lighter and darker elements of the image. Use -contrast to enhance the image or +contrast to reduce the image contrast. -crop x{+-}{+-} preferred size and location of the cropped image. See X(1) for details about the geometry specification. Use cropping to crop a particular area of an image. Use -crop 0x0 to remove edges that are the background color. -density x vertical and horizontal density of the image. This option specifies an image density for a Postscript page. The default is 72 dots per inch in the horizontal and vertical direction. Use this option to alter the default density. -despeckle reduce the speckles within an image. -display host:display[.screen] specifies the X server to contact; see X(1). -dither apply Floyd/Steinberg error diffusion to the image. The basic strategy of dithering is to trade intensity resolution for spatial resolution by averaging the intensities of several neighboring pixels. Images which suffer from severe contouring when reducing colors can be improved with this option. The -colors option is required for dithering to take effect. -edge detect edges with an image. -enhance apply a digital filter to enhance a noisy image. -equalize perform histogram equalization to the image. -flip create a "mirror image" by reflecting the image scanlines in the vertical direction. -flop create a "mirror image" by reflecting the image scanlines in the horizontal direction. -font name This option specifies the font to be used for displaying normal text. The default is fixed. -gamma value level of gamma correction. The same color image displayed on two different workstations may look different due to differences in the display monitor. Use gamma correction to adjust for this color difference. Reasonable values extend from 0.8 to 2.3. You can apply separate gamma values to the red, green, and blue channels of the image with a gamma value list delineated with commas (i.e. 1.7,2.3,1.2). -geometry {%}x{%}{!} perferred size or location of the image. By default, the width and height are maximum values. That is, the image is expanded or contracted to fit the width and height value while maintaining the aspect ratio of the image. Append an exclamation point to the geometry to force the image size to exactly the size you specify. For example, if you specify 640x480! the image width is set to 640 pixels and height to 480. If only one factor is specified, both the width and height assume the value. To specify a percentage width or height instead, append %. The image size is multiplied by the width and height percentages to obtain the final image dimensions. To increase the size of an image, use a value greater than 100 (e.g. 125%). To decrease an image's size, use a percentage less than 100. -interlace type the type of interlacing scheme: NONE, LINE, or PLANE. This option is used to specify the type of interlacing scheme for raw image formats such as RGB or YUV. NONE means do not interlace (RGBRGBRGBRGBRGBRGB...), LINE uses scanline interlacing (RRR...GGG..BB...RRR...GGG..BB...), and PLANE uses plane interlacing (RRRRRR...GGGGGG..BBBBB...). -label name assign a label to an image. Use this option to assign a specific label to the image. Optionally you can include the image filename, type, width, height, or scene number in the label by embedding special format characters. Embed %f for filename, %m for magick, %w for width, %h for height, or %s for scene number. For example, -label "%m:%f %wx%h" produces an image label of MIFF:bird.miff 512x480 for an image titled bird.miff and whose width is 512 and height is 480. If the first character of string is @, the image label is read from a file titled by the remaining characters in the string. When converting to Postscript, use this option to specify a header string to print above the image. -map filename choose a particular set of colors from this image. By default, color reduction chooses an optimal set of colors that best represent the original image. Alternatively, you can choose a particular set of colors with this option. -matte store matte channel if the image has one. -modulate value vary the brightness, saturation, and hue of an image. Specify the percent change in brightness, the color saturation, and the color hue separated by commas. For example, to increase the color brightness by 20% and decrease the color saturation by 10% and leave the hue unchanged, use: -modulate 20,-10. -monochrome transform the image to black and white. -negate apply color inversion to image. The red, green, and blue intensities of an image are negated. -noise reduce the noise in an image with a noise peak elimination filter. The principal function of noise peak elimination filter is to smooth the objects within an image without losing edge information and without creating undesired structures. The central idea of the algorithm is to replace a pixel with its next neighbor in value within a 3 x 3 window, if this pixel has been found to be noise. A pixel is defined as noise if and only if this pixel is a maximum or minimum within the 3 x 3 window. -normalize transform image to span the full range of color values. This is a contrast enhancement technique. -page x{+-}{+-} preferred size and location of the Postscript page. Use this option to specify the dimensions of the Postscript page in picas or a TEXT page in pixels. The default for a Postscript page is to center the image on a letter page 612 by 792 dots per inch. The left and right margins are 18 picas and the top and bottom 94 picas (i.e. 612x792+36+36). Other common sizes are: 540x720 Note 612x1008 Legal 842x1190 A3 595x842 A4 421x595 A5 297x421 A6 709x1002 B4 612x936 U.S. Foolscap 612x936 European Foolscap 396x612 Half Letter 792x1224 11x17 1224x792 Ledger The page geometry is relative to the vertical and horizontal density of the Postscript page. See -density for details. The default page dimensions for a TEXT image is 612x792+36+36. -quality value JPEG quality setting. Quality is 0 (worst) to 100 (best). The default is 85. -roll {+-}{+-} roll an image vertically or horizontally. See X(1) for details about the geometry specification. A negative x offset rolls the image left-to-right. A negative y offset rolls the image top-to-bottom. -rotate degrees apply Paeth image rotation to the image. Empty triangles left over from rotating the image are filled with the color defined as bordercolor (class borderColor). See X(1) for details. -sample geometry scale image with pixel sampling. -scene value image scene number. -sharpen sharpen the image. -shear x shear the image along the X or Y axis by a positive or negative shear angle. Shearing slides one edge of an image along the X or Y axis, creating a parallelogram. An X direction shear slides an edge along the X axis, while a Y direction shear slides an edge along the Y axis. The amount of the shear is controlled by a shear angle. For X direction shears, x degrees is measured relative to the Y axis, and similarly, for Y direction shears y degrees is measured relative to the X axis. Empty triangles left over from shearing the image are filled with the color defined as bordercolor (class borderColor). See X(1) for details. -size {%}x width and height of the image. Use this option to specify the width and height of raw images whose dimensions are unknown such as GRAY, RGB, or CMYK. In addition to width and height, use -size to tell the number of colors in a MAP image file, (e.g. -size 640x512+256). For Photo CD images, choose from these sizes: 192x128 384x256 768x512 1536x1024 3072x2048 -treedepth value Normally, this integer value is zero or one. A zero or one tells convert to choose a optimal tree depth for the color reduction algorithm. An optimal depth generally allows the best representation of the source image with the fastest computational speed and the least amount of memory. However, the default depth is inappropriate for some images. To assure the best representation, try values between 2 and 8 for this parameter. Refer to quantize(9) for more details. The -colors option is required for this option to take effect. -undercolor x control undercolor removal and black generation on CMYK images. This option enables you to perform undercolor removal and black generation on CMYK images-- images to be printed on a four-color printing system. You can control how much cyan, magenta, and yellow to remove from your image and how much black to add to it. The standard undercolor removal is 1.0x1.0. You'll frequently get better results, though, if the percentage of black you add to your image is slightly higher than the percentage of C, M, and Y you remove from it. For example you might try 0.5x0.7. -verbose print detailed information about the image. This information is printed: image scene number; image name; converted image name; image size; the image class (DirectClass or PseudoClass); the total number of unique colors; and the number of seconds to read and convert the image. Options are processed in command line order. Any option you specify on the command line remains in effect until it is explicitly changed by specifying the option again with a different effect. Change '-' to '+' in any option above to reverse its effect. For example, specify +matte to store the image without its matte channel. By default, the image format is determined by its magic number. To specify a particular image format, precede the filename with an image format name and a colon (i.e. ps:image) or specify the image type as the filename suffix (i.e. image.ps). See DESCRIPTION for a list of valid formats. When you specify X as your image type, the filename has special meaning. It specifies an X window by id, name, or root. If no filename is specified, the window is selected by clicking the mouse in the desired window. Specify input_file as - for standard input, output_file as - for standard output. If input_file has the extension .Z or .gz, the file is uncompressed with uncompress or gunzip respectively. If output_file has the extension .Z or .gz, the file size is compressed using with compress or gzip respectively. Finally, precede the image file name with | to pipe to or from a system command. Use an optional index enclosed in brackets after a file name to specify a desired subimage of a multi-resolution image format like Photo CD (e.g. img0001.pcd[4]). Single images are written with the filename you specify. However, multi-part images (i.e. a multi-page Postscript document) are written with the filename followed by a period (.) and the scene number. You can change this behavior by embedding a printf format specification in the file name. For example, image%02d.miff converts files image00.miff, image01.miff, etc. 2 ENVIRONMENT display To get the default host, display number, and screen. 2 COPYRIGHT Copyright 1994 E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company disclaims all warranties with regard to this software, including all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness, in no event shall E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortuous action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of this software. 2 AUTHORS John Cristy, E.I. du Pont De Nemours and Company Incorporated