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

# gifcolor(1)

A program to generate color test patterns. Feed it a color map file (as generated, say, by the -s otion 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.

## NAME

gifcolor -  A program to generate color test patterns.  Feed it a color map file (as generated, say, by the -s otion 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.

## USAGE

**gifcolor \[-q\] \[-b Background\] \[-h\] &ltColorMapFile**

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.

## MEMORY REQUIRED

Line.

## OPTIONS

- \[-q\]

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

- \[-b\]

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

- \[-h\]

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

## AUTHOR

Gershon Elber

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