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CPALDJVU(1)			  DjVuLibre-3.5 		     CPALDJVU(1)

NAME
     cpaldjvu - DjVuDocument encoder for low-color images.

SYNOPSIS
     cpaldjvu  [options] inputppmfile outputdjvufile

DESCRIPTION
     Program  cpaldjvu	is a DjVuDocument encoder for images containing few col-
     ors.  It performs best on images containing large solid color areas such as
     screen dumps.  Compression ratios on such images can be  much  higher  than
     those achieved by GIF or PNG compression.

     This  program  works  by  first reducing the number of distinct colors to a
     small specified value using a simple  color  quantization	algorithm.   The
     dominant  color is encoded into the background layer.  The other colors are
     encoded into the foreground layer.

OPTIONS
     -dpi n
	    Specify the resolution information encoded into the output file  ex-
	    pressed in dots per inch. The resolution information encoded in DjVu
	    files  determine  how  the	decoder scales the image on a particular
	    display.  Meaningful resolutions range from 25 to 6000.  The default
	    value is 300 dpi.

     -colors n
	    Specify a maximum number of distinct colors for the color  quantiza-
	    tion  algorithm.  process. The default value is 256.  Smaller values
	    can produce much smaller files.

     -bgwhite
	    Cause the background layer to use the lightest quantified color  in-
	    stead of the dominant color.

     -verbose
	    Display informational messages while running.

REMARKS
     The color quantization might introduce severe degradation if the image con-
     tains photographic areas with a large number of very similar colors.  Color
     quantization problems might be solved by pre-processing the input file with
     a	different  quantization program such as ppmquant.  Avoid using the error
     diffusion dithering algorithm.  This algorithm generates  random  dithering
     patterns that might be very costly to encode.

BUGS
     This program should be rewritten as a pre-processor for csepdjvu.

CREDITS
     This  program  was  initially  written  by Leon Bottou <leonb@users.source-
     forge.net> and was improved by Bill Riemers  <docbill@sourceforge.net>  and
     many others.

SEE ALSO
     djvu(1), pbm(5), ppmquant(1), pnmtogif(1), pnmtopng(1)

DjVuLibre-3.5			   10/11/2001			     CPALDJVU(1)

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