Disk Drive Documents

From: Mark <mark_k_at_iname.com>
Date: Thu Jun 10 18:37:06 1999

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 Scott Ware wrote:
> CCITT G4 TIFF is itself a reasonable format for storing scanned
> documentation. The PDP-8 manuals available from Kevin McQuiggin's site in
> G4 TIFF format are surprisingly small for good quality 300 dpi monochrome
> documents. Unfortunately, XV, Gimp, and ImageMagick display do not
> include support for multipage G4 TIFF files. The ImageMagick 'convert'
> command line utility can be used to convert G4 TIFF files into (much
> larger) PostScript files for viewing and printing, and both Paint Shop Pro
> (under Windows) and Graphic Converter (on the Mac) supposedly have G4 TIFF
> support.

If you get hold of the free libtiff distribution (which BTW, I believe XV, Gimp
& ImageMagick use for their TIFF support), compile the tiffsplit program. This
takes a multi-page TIFF file, and outputs a single TIFF file for each page.

Tiffsplit works fine, and even I managed to compile it, which is saying
something.


For Windows 95/98/NT users, the Imaging program supplied with the operating
system understands multi-page TIFF.


(The libtiff package is/used to be at ftp.sgi.com)


-- Mark
Received on Thu Jun 10 1999 - 18:37:06 BST