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Converting color TIFF to CCITT G4 compression

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:29 pm
by sergiokapone
Help me, please. I have an color (LZW, or else) tiff, how can I simple compress it into CCITT group 4?

Re: Converting color TIFF to CCITT G4 compression

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:53 pm
by cday
sergiokapone wrote: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:29 pm I have an color (LZW, or else) tiff, how can I simple compress it into CCITT group 4?
CCITT G4 compression is only applicable to 1-bit (black and white) images, so you wish to convert a color TIFF to black and white and save it with CCITT G4 compression?

Re: Converting color TIFF to CCITT G4 compression

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 9:04 am
by sergiokapone
cday wrote: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:53 pm CCITT G4 compression is only applicable to 1-bit (black and white) images, so you wish to convert a color TIFF to black and white and save it with CCITT G4 compression?
Yes, I want to convert a color TIFF to black and white and save it with CCITT G4 compression.

Re: Converting color TIFF to CCITT G4 compression

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 9:22 am
by cday
The conversion to black and white can be performed using the following option:

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-binary dither    : Convert in Binary
              pattern : Ordered pattern
              floyd   : Floyd steinberg
              halft45 : Halftone 45
              halft90 : Halftone 90
              nodither : No dithering
So, for example, to convert without using any of the above dither options use:

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-binary nodither

The compression options for saving to the TIFF format are:

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-c value          : Compression number
              default : 0 (uncompressed)
              TIFF   : 1 (Rle), 2 (LZW), 3 (LZW+Prediction)
                       4 (ZLIB)
                       5 (CCITT G3), 6 (CCITT G3-2D), 7 (CCITT G4) only B/W
                       8 (JPEG) only 24/32 bits
So to output to TIFF format with CCITT G4 compression use:

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-out TIFF 7
Do you have the NConvert Help file listing?

Note:

I am away from home and using my Linux laptop, so I can't test code as I normally would without booting into Windows 10 which I would really rather avoid... :wink:

Re: Converting color TIFF to CCITT G4 compression

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 1:14 pm
by sergiokapone
cday, thank you. This is that what I neen.