---
name: "gif2tiff"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libtiff-tools"
version: "4.0.2-6+deb7u5"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gif2tiff"
---

# gif2tiff(1)

create a TIFF file from a GIF87 format image file

## NAME

gif2tiff - create a TIFF file from a GIF87 format image file

## SYNOPSIS

**gif2tiff** \[ *options* \] *input.gif* *output.tif*

## DESCRIPTION

*Gif2tiff* converts a file in the GIF87 format to TIFF. The TIFF image is created as a palette image, with samples compressed with the Lempel-Ziv & Welch algorithm (*Compression*=5). These characteristics can overridden, or explicitly specified with the options described below.

## OPTIONS

- **-c**

  Specify a compression scheme to use when writing image data: **-c none** for no compression, **-c packbits** for the PackBits compression algorithm, **-c zip** for the Deflate compression algorithm, and **-c lzw** for Lempel-Ziv & Welch (the default).

- **-r**

  Write data with a specified number of rows per strip; by default the number of rows/strip is selected so that each strip is approximately 8 kilobytes.

## NOTES

The program is based on Paul Haeberli's *fromgif* program which, in turn, is based on Marcel J.E. Mol's GIF reader.

## BUGS

Should have more options to control output format.

## SEE ALSO

[**pal2rgb**(1)](/pal2rgb/1.md), [**tiffinfo**(1)](/tiffinfo/1.md), [**tiffcp**(1)](/tiffcp/1.md), [**tiffmedian**(1)](/tiffmedian/1.md), **libtiff**(3)

Libtiff library home page: **http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/**