thumbnail — LibTIFF 4.5.1 documentation

# thumbnail

## Synopsis

thumbnail [ options ] input.tif output.tif

## Description

thumbnail is a program written to show how one might use the `SubIFD` tag (#330) to store thumbnail images. thumbnail copies a TIFF Class F facsimile file to the output file and for each image an 8-bit greyscale “thumbnail sketch” is created. The output file contains the thumbnail image with the associated full-resolution page linked below with the SubIFD tag.

By default, thumbnail images are 216 pixels wide by 274 pixels high. Pixels are calculated by sampling and filtering the input image with each pixel value passed through a contrast curve.

## Options

-w width

  Specify the width of thumbnail images in pixels.

-h height

  Specify the height of thumbnail images in pixels.

-c contrast

  Specify a contrast curve to apply in generating the thumbnail images. By default pixels values are passed through a linear contrast curve that simply maps the pixel value ranges. Alternative curves are:

  Curve | Description
  --- | ---
  exp50 | 50% exponential curve
  exp60 | 60% exponential curve
  exp70 | 70% exponential curve
  exp80 | 80% exponential curve
  exp90 | 90% exponential curve
  exp | pure exponential curve
  linear | linear curve

## Bugs

There are no options to control the format of the saved thumbnail images.

## See also

tiffdump (1), tiffgt (1), tiffinfo (1), libtiff (3tiff),