RAS2TIFF(1)               UNIX System V(May 2, 1989)                RAS2TIFF(1)


NAME
      ras2tiff - create a TIFF file from a Sun rasterfile

SYNOPSIS
      ras2tiff [ -none ] [ -packbits ] [ -lzw ] [ -rowsperstrip n ] rasterfile
      tiff-file

DESCRIPTION
      Ras2tiff converts a file in the Sun rasterfile format to TIFF. By
      default, the TIFF image is created with data samples packed
      (PlanarConfiguration=1), compressed with the Lempel-Ziv & Welch algorithm
      (Compression=5), and with each strip no more than 8 kilobytes.  These
      characteristics can overriden, or explicitly specified with the following
      options:  -none (use no compression), -packbits (use the PackBits
      compression algorithm), -lzw (use Lempel-Ziv & Welch - default),
      -rowsperstrip n (pack n rows in each strip).  Any colormap information in
      the rasterfile is carried over to the TIFF file by including a Colormap
      tag in the output file.  If the rasterfile has a colormap, the
      PhotometricInterpretation tag is set to 3 (palette); otherwise it is set
      to 2 (RGB) if the depth is 24 or 1 (min-is-black) if the depth is not 24.

BUGS
      Does not handle all possible rasterfiles.  In particular, ras2tiff does
      not handle run-length encoded images.

SEE ALSO
      pal2rgb(1), tiffinfo(1), tiffcp(1), tiffmedian(1), libtiff(3)



























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