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GIFCOLOR

Section: GIFLIB Documentation (1)
Updated: 2 May 2012
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NAME

gifcolor - generate color test-pattern GIFs

SYNOPSIS

gifcolor [-v] [-b background] [-h] [colormap-file]

DESCRIPTION

A program to generate color test patterns. Feed it a color map file (as generated, say, by the -s option of gifclrmp) and it will generate a GIF containing lines of the form.

Color %-3d: [%-3d, %-3d, %-3d]:

where the first number is the zero-based color index, and the triple is the index's [Red, Green, Blue] value. There will be one such line for each color. Each line will be set in a simple 8x8 font in the color it describes; thus, any lines corresponding to the GIF's background color will be blank.

As gifcolor can generate huge amounts of data, ^C will kill it, but 'q' will stop only the printing (of one of -e, -z, -p), while file integrity will still be checked.

OPTIONS

-v

: Verbose mode (show progress). Enables printout of running scan lines.

-b

: Set the image's backround color to a given numeric index.

-h

: Print one line of command line help, similar to Usage above.

If no colormap file is specified, the color map will be read from stdin.

AUTHOR

Gershon Elber.