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6 jpegoptim - utility to optimize/compress JPEG/JFIF files.
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15 jpegoptim is used to optimize/compress jpeg files. Program supports
16 lossless optimization, which is based on optimizing the Huffman tables.
17 And so called "lossy" optimization where in addition to optimizing
18 Huffman tables user can specify upperlimit for image quality.
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20 NOTE! By default jpegoptim modifies the input files (if they are opti‐
21 mized), to preserve original files use option -d to specify alternate
22 directory for saving the optimized files to.
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24 Only normal files are optimized (symbolic links and special files are
25 skipped). Also, any other hard links to the file being optimized (as
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31 Options may be either the traditional POSIX one letter options, or the
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35 Options offered by jpegoptim are the following:
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37 -d<path>, --dest=<path>
38 Sets alternative destination directory where to save optimized
39 files (default is to overwrite the originals). Please note that
40 unchanged files won't be added to the destination directory. This
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45 Force optimization, even if the result would be larger than the
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52 Sets the maximum image quality factor (disables lossless opti‐
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62 Don't really optimize files, just print results.
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65 Try to optimize file to given size (disables lossless optimiza‐
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70 Keep the file unchanged if the compression gain is lower than the
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85 Preserve file permissions (owner/group) by overwriting the origi‐
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88 then renamed over the original file). In this mode a backup of
89 the original file is made with .jpegoptim.bak extension, and this
90 file is removed after the original file has been successfully
91 replaced. NOTE! if running jpegoptim as root there is generally
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99 Print totals after processing all files.
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111 Force all output files to be progressive. Can be used to convert
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117 Strip all markers from output file. (NOTE! by default only Com‐
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119 else is discarded). Output JPEG still likely will contains one
120 or two markers (JFIF and Adobe APP14) depending on colorspace
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125 Preserve "all" markers in the image. This will leave all markers
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130 Strip Comment (COM) markers from output file.
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133 Strip EXIF markers from output file.
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136 Strip IPTC / Adobe Photoshop (APP13) markers from output file.
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147 Send output image to standard output. Note, if optimization
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155 Read input image from standard input. When this option is used
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157 input files specified on command line are ignored. Note, if
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162 put image is always sent to standard output (even if no optimiza‐
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170 requested size. Workaround is to re-run jpegoptim on the same file
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179 Timo Kokkonen <tjko@iki.fi>
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183 Copyright (C) 1996-2018 Timo Kokkonen
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185 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
186 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
187 Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
188 option) any later version.
189 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
190 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER‐
191 CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
192 Public License for more details.
193 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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