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.TH "GIFTEXT" "1" "2 May 2012" "GIFLIB" "GIFLIB Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
giftext \- dump GIF pixels and metadata as text
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'\fBgiftext\fR\ 'u
\fBgiftext\fR [\-v] [\-c] [\-e] [\-z] [\-p] [\-r] [\-h] [\fIgif\-file\fR]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
A program to dump (text only) general information about GIF file\&.
.PP
If no GIF file is given, giftext will try to read a GIF file from stdin\&.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
\-v
.RS 4
Verbose mode (show progress)\&. Enables printout of running scan lines\&.
.RE
.PP
\-c
.RS 4
Dumps the color maps\&.
.RE
.PP
\-e
.RS 4
Dumps encoded bytes \- the pixels after compressed using LZ algorithm and chained to form bytes\&. This is the form the data is saved in the GIF file\&. Dumps in hex \- 2 digit per byte\&.
.RE
.PP
\-z
.RS 4
Dumps the LZ codes of the image\&. Dumps in hex \- 3 digits per code (as we are limited to 12 bits)\&.
.RE
.PP
\-p
.RS 4
Dumps the pixels of the image\&. Dumps in hex \- 2 digit per pixel (<=byte)\&.
.RE
.PP
\-r
.RS 4
Dumps raw pixels as one byte per pixel\&. This option inhibits all other options and only the pixels are dumped\&. This option may be used to convert GIF files into raw data\&. Note: the color map can be extracted by gifclrmp utility\&. If more than one image is included in the file, all images will be dumped in order\&.
.RE
.PP
\-h
.RS 4
Print one line of command line help, similar to Usage above\&.
.RE
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
Gershon Elber\&.