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

# gifwedge(1)

A program to create a test GIF image with intensity levels of the RGB colors YCM colors and white.

## NAME

gifwedge -  A program to create a test GIF image with intensity levels of the RGB colors YCM colors and white.

## USAGE

**gifwedge \[-q\] \[-l #Lvls\] \[-s SizeX SizeY\] \[-h\]**

## MEMORY REQUIRED

Line.

## OPTIONS

- \[-q\]

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

- \[-l #Lvls\]

   Set number of intensity levels per color.  This number must be power of two up to 32, as Gif format can only have 256 color simultanuously and 7 basic colors are to be displayed.

- \[-s SizeX SizeY\]

   Force image size to be SizeX by SizeY pixels. Image size will be rounded down to be a multiple of number of intensities horizontally, and 7 (colors) vertically.

- \[-h\]

   Print one line 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\>