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Revision: 1.3
Committed: Thu Sep 23 18:00:53 2004 UTC (19 years, 8 months ago) by greg
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.2: +6 -5 lines
Log Message:
Enabled -p option (display primaries) and XYZE reading to ra_bmp

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1 greg 1.1 .TH RA_BMP 1 3/25/04 RADIANCE
2     .SH NAME
3     ra_bmp - convert RADIANCE picture to/from Windows BMP image
4     .SH SYNOPSIS
5     .B ra_bmp
6     [
7     .B \-b
8     ][
9     .B "\-g gamma"
10     ][
11 greg 1.2 .B "\-e spec"
12     ][
13     .B "-p xr yr xg yg xb yb xw yw"
14 greg 1.1 ]
15     [
16     [
17     .B input|-
18     [
19     .B output
20     ]
21     ]
22     .br
23     .B ra_bmp
24     .B \-r
25     [
26     .B "\-g gamma"
27     ][
28     .B "\-e +/-stops"
29     ]
30     [
31     [
32     .B input|-
33     [
34     .B output
35     ]
36     ]
37     .SH DESCRIPTION
38     .I Ra_bmp
39     converts between RADIANCE and a Windows BMP image.
40 greg 1.2 During forward conversion, the
41 greg 1.1 .I \-b
42     option produces 8-bit grayscale output rather than 24-bit RGB.
43     The
44     .I \-g
45 greg 1.2 option specifies the exponent used in monitor gamma correction;
46 greg 1.1 the default value is 2.2.
47     The
48     .I \-e
49 greg 1.2 option specifies a tone-mapping method or exposure compensation.
50     If the argument is one of the special words "auto", "human", or "linear",
51     the image will be tone-mapped with histogram adjustment,
52     human vision simulation, or an averaged linear exposure,
53     respectively.
54     (These words may be abbreviated by one or more letters.)\0
55     Otherwise, the exposure specification is interpreted as a
56     linear compensation value in integer f-stops, which must
57     be proceeded by a '+' or '-'.
58 greg 1.3 The CRT color output primaries may be specified with the
59 greg 1.2 .I \-p
60     option.
61     .PP
62 greg 1.1 The
63     .I \-r
64     option invokes a reverse conversion, from a Windows BMP image
65     to a RADIANCE picture.
66 greg 1.2 Tone-mapping and monitor primaries are not
67     supported for reverse conversion.
68     .PP
69 greg 1.1 .I Ra_bmp
70     can accept 16-bit or color-mapped BMP files on input,
71     but cannot not produce them on output.
72     .PP
73     A hyphen ('-') may be specified to indicate standard input for
74     either forward or reverse conversion so that an output file may be
75     specified.
76     If the BMP input is taken from the standard input or sent to the
77 greg 1.3 standard output without tone-mapping, then the scanlines may
78     be reversed from their usual ordering.
79     Scanlines are also reversed when output to a BMP file without
80     tone-mapping using the grayscale option.
81     Reversed scanlines sometimes causes difficulties for programs attempting
82 greg 1.1 to interpret the resulting RADIANCE picture or BMP image, which
83     may be rejected or displayed inverted.
84     .SH AUTHOR
85     Greg Ward
86     .SH "SEE ALSO"
87     pfilt(1), ra_ppm(1), ra_pr(1), ra_pr24(1), ra_t8(1), ra_t16(1),
88     ra_tiff(1), ximage(1)