pfsintiff(1) General Commands Manual pfsintiff(1)
NAME
pfsintiff - Load images or frames in several variants of TIFF format (both LDR and HDR)
SYNOPSIS
pfsintiff (<file> [--linear] [--frames <range>] [--skip-missing]) [<file>...]
DESCRIPTION
pfsintiff command loads images in TIFF format and writes pfs stream to the Standard Output. The pfs stream is usually piped to another pro-
gram for further processing. To detect the format automatically based on the extension, use pfsin command.
Both the standard LDR tiff and extended HDR (logLuv encoding http://www.anyhere.com/gward/pixformat/tiffluv.html); Note that both LDR and
HDR tiff files provide photometric data (ie linearly related to luminance). The 'LUMINANCE' tag is set to 'RELATIVE', also the '--linear'
switch is ignored.
To read images from standard input use a single dash '-' instead of filename. The images are read until EOF is reached.
Each file can contain a %d pattern, which is substituted with frame numbers. The pattern has the same syntax as C printf command. For exam-
ple, you can use %04d to make the frame number four digit with proceedings zeros. You can select the frames using the following options
(the options must be always given after the file name):
--frames <range>
Range is given in mathlab / octave format:
startframe:step:endframe
Frame numbers start with startframe (default 0), are increased by step (default 1) and stop at endframe You can skip one of those
values, for example 1:100 for frames 1,2,...,100 and 0:2: for frame 0,2,4,... up to the last file that exists.
--skip-missing
Skip up to ten frames in a row if corresponding files are missing. Otherwise the program stops reading sequence at the first file
that does not exists. This switch does not apply to the first frame in a sequence. This switch can be useful if there is a rendered
animation where some of the frame has not been generated.
--linear
Ignored for compatibility with pfsinppm.
EXAMPLES
pfsintiff frame%04d.tif --frames 0:10 | pfsview
Read frames from files frame0000.tif, frame0001.tif, ..., frame0010.tif and show them using pfsview.
BUGS
Please report bugs and comments on implementation to the discussion group http://groups.google.com/group/pfstools
SEE ALSO
pfsin(1), pfsout(1)
pfsintiff(1)
