---
name: "gifclip"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "giflib-tools"
version: "4.1.6-11+deb8u1"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gifclip"
---

# gifclip(1)

A program to clip images in GIF files. Only one image in a GIF file can be modified at a time. Neither the image position on screen nor the screen size is modified (use \<a href="gifpos.html"\>gifpos

## NAME

gifclip -  A program to clip images in GIF files.  Only one image in a GIF file can be modified at a time.  Neither the image position on screen nor the screen size is modified (use \<a href="gifpos.html"\>gifpos

## USAGE

**gifclip \[-q\] \[-i Xmin Ymin Xmax Ymax\] \[-n n Xmin Ymin Xmax Ymax\] \[-c\] \[-h\] gif-file**

If no gif-file is given, GifClip will try to read a GIF file from stdin.

## MEMORY REQUIRED

Line.

## OPTIONS

- \[-q\]

   Quiet mode.  Default off on MSDOS, on under UNIX.  Controls printout of running scan lines.  Use -q- to invert.

- \[-i Xmin Ymin Xmax Ymax\]

   Clip first image to the dimensions as specified by the 4 coordinates (Xmin Ymin Xmax Ymax) of a box clipping region.

  For example: '-i 11 22 33 44' will crop the box from top left \[11,22\] to bottom right \[33,44\] out of the first image.

  If the first parameter is bigger than third one (Xmin \> Xmax) they are swapped.  Same for Y.

  The dimensions of the clipped image must be confined to original image width and height.  Note the clipped image includes both the min & max boundary; an image of width W can have coordinates 0 to W-1 (zero based).

  Only one of -i or -n can be specified.

- \[-n n Xmin Ymin Xmax Ymax\]

   Same as -i above but for the nth image: \`-n 1 11 22 33 44' is exactly the same as the example in -i.  Only one of -i or -n can be specified.

- \[-c\]

   Complement.  This removes horizontal and/or vertical bands of the image. For example \`-c -i 638 3 658 13' would remove a horizontal band 11 pixels deep beginning at raster line 3, and a vertical band 21 pixels right beginning at pixel 658.

- \[-h\]

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

  Note: all coordinates are 0-based --- the top left corner is (0, 0).

## AUTHOR

Gershon Elber

Man page created by T.Gridel \<tgridel@free.fr\>, originally written by Eric S. Raymond \<esr@thyrsus.com\>