nip2 - Man Page

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

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.

 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 2x2 matrix and write the result to poop.mat.

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