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Revision: 1.3
Committed: Thu Sep 23 18:00:53 2004 UTC (19 years, 8 months ago) by greg
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Enabled -p option (display primaries) and XYZE reading to ra_bmp

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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 .B "\-e spec"
12 ][
13 .B "-p xr yr xg yg xb yb xw yw"
14 ]
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 During forward conversion, the
41 .I \-b
42 option produces 8-bit grayscale output rather than 24-bit RGB.
43 The
44 .I \-g
45 option specifies the exponent used in monitor gamma correction;
46 the default value is 2.2.
47 The
48 .I \-e
49 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 The CRT color output primaries may be specified with the
59 .I \-p
60 option.
61 .PP
62 The
63 .I \-r
64 option invokes a reverse conversion, from a Windows BMP image
65 to a RADIANCE picture.
66 Tone-mapping and monitor primaries are not
67 supported for reverse conversion.
68 .PP
69 .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 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 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)