---
name: "sgi2tiff"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libtiff-tools"
version: "4.0.3-12.3+deb8u5"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sgi2tiff"
---

# sgi2tiff(1)

create a TIFF file from an SGI image file

## NAME

sgi2tiff - create a TIFF file from an SGI image file

## SYNOPSIS

**sgi2tiff** \[ *options* \] *input.rgb* *output.tif*

## DESCRIPTION

*sgi2tiff* converts a file in the  SGI image format to TIFF. By default, the TIFF image is created with data samples packed (*PlanarConfiguration*=1), compressed with the Lempel-Ziv & Welch algorithm (*Compression*=5), and with each strip no more than 8 kilobytes. 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 jpeg** for the baseline JPEG compression algorithm, **-c zip** for the Deflate compression algorithm, and **-c lzw** for Lempel-Ziv & Welch (the default).

- **-p**

  Explicitly select the planar configuration used in organizing data samples in the output image: **-p contig** for samples packed contiguously, and **-p separate** for samples stored separately. By default samples are packed.

- **-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.

## BUGS

Does not record colormap information.

## SEE ALSO

[**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/**