nip2 (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

nip2 – image processing with the VIPS library

SYNOPSIS

nip2 [filename1 …]
nip2 -s filename [arg1 …]
nip2 -e expression [arg1 …]

DESCRIPTION

nip2 (for New Image Processing) is a tool for manipulating images using the VIPS image processing library.

There are three principal modes:

nip2 [filename1 …]

  start in GUI mode, loading the named files

nip2 -e expression [arg1 …]
nip2 –expression=EXPRESSION [arg1 …]

  start in no-GUI mode; set main = expression, set list argv to
  ["filename", "arg1", "arg2", …], set argc to length of list; print
  the value of symbol "main" to stdout; exit

nip2 -s filename [arg1 …]
nip2 –script=FILENAME [arg1 …]

  start in no-GUI mode; read in filename as a set of definitions, 
  set list argv to ["filename", "arg1", "arg2", …], set argc to 
  length of list; print the value of symbol "main" to stdout; exit; 
  useful for running nip2 as an interpreter on unix

You can use -o to direct output to a file rather than stdout.

-o filename
–output=FILENAME

  the value of main is written to the named file. If main is a 
  list, the filename is incremented between objects. You can use 
  the suffix to specify the format and options to write in

Other options provide finer control over startup and shutdown. If you need to do something strange, don’t use -e/-s, use these in combination.

-b
–batch

  batch (ie. non-GUI) mode

-m
–no-load-menus

  don’t load menus, for faster startup

-a
–no-load-args

  don’t load extra command-line arguments

-w
–stdin-ws

  load stdin as a workspace

-d
–stdin-def

  load stdin as a set of definitions

-p
–print-main

  print the value of main on exit. nip2 will check for a top-level 
  symbol called main, and also check each workspace for a main

Finally some other options are useful for debugging, timing and for generating strings for internationalisation.

-V
–verbose

  produce verbose error messages: handy for debugging in batch mode

-i
–i18n

  output strings from .def files for internationalisation

-v
–version

  print version information

-c
–benchmark

  benchmark: no GUI, just start up and shut down

-t
–time-save

  time saves: after every image save a popup tells you the time the 
  save took in seconds

-T
–test

  test: start up (including any arg processing), test for any errors, 
  and exit with an error code if any occured. Useful for running 
  automated tests.

-x PREFIX
–prefix=PREFIX

  set install prefix: start up as if nip2 had been installed to PREFIX.
  Useful for running automated tests without installing the thing.

EXAMPLES

  nip2 fred.jpg

Start nip2, loading fred.jpg.

  nip2 -e "2 + 2"

Prints 4 to stdout.

  nip2 -e "99 + Image_file argv?1" -o result.png fred.jpg

Load argv1 (fred.jpg), add 99, output to result.png.

  nip2 -e "Matrix [[1,2],[4,5]] ** -1" -o poop.mat

Invert the 2×2 matrix and write the result to poop.mat.

COPYRIGHT

2008 (c) Imperial College, London

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