VTIFFTOVXVisionX V4 NAME

vtifftovx − convert tiff images to visionx format

SYNOPSIS

vtifftovx [if=<infile>] [of=<outfile>] [-a] [-g] [-s] [-v] [-w]

DESCRIPTION

Vtifftovx converts a tiff image or a set of tiff images to a visionx file. By default a single tiff image or a tiff image stack is converted to a visionx image sequence. If the -a option is specified, the if argument indicates a directory in which there are a set of individual tiff images. They are combined into a single visionx image file. This is very convenient for converting movie image sequences from video sources that can be dumped as a set of tiff images.

CONSTRAINTS

Only byte and (unsigned) short integer pixel formats are currently supported since the pnm package is used. The command tiffinfo must be available; the command tiffsplit is required to handle multi-frame tiff files; either of the commands pnmdepth or pamdepth are required to convert files with unsigned integer valued pixels. The order of combining of images using the -a option cannot be specified. The arguments if= and of= must always be specified explicitly.

OPTIONS

	if=		input file in tiff format, or input directory when -a is specified
	of=		Output visionx file.
	-g		Convert color byte images to grey images (see vchan -c)
	-a		the if= parameter is set to a directory containing a set of tiff images. convert all these images into a single visionx file
	-s		just convert a single tiff input file
	-v		verbose mode -w show warnings -d2 force division by two for unsigned short (for when tag is missing)

AUTHOR

A. P. Reeves, A. Biancardi

SEE ALSO

vchan(1), vpnmtovx(1)