RL02 docs in PDF (re:11/44)

From: Kevin Handy <kth_at_srv.net>
Date: Wed Feb 19 10:48:01 2003

Jay West wrote:

>One word of caution... every single "evaluation" or "demo" or "shareware"
>package I could find that would do tiff to pdf conversion, stuck a really
>ANNOYING image on every page of the resulting output that was their company
>logo, or big letters over the middle of the document saying "evaluation",
>etc. Royal pain. In those, you can get rid of it by registering. My
>comercial one doesn't do that. There was a totally free one I found (dos
>based) that didn't do that and worked fine. However, it would not process
>multipage tiff files, only single page tiff files.
>
>
>
Just for informational purposes, and to offer a cheap solution:

Under linux, I use the following commands to convert tiff files
to pdf ones.

    tiffcp 0*.tif t1.tif
    tiff2ps -a t1.tif > t1.ps
    ps2pdf t1.ps t1.pdf
    rm t1.tif
    rm t1.ps

Adjust the command lines based on the names of the actual files.
The programs are:

tiffcp - Merges multiple tiff files into a single multi-image tiff file.
tiff2ps - Converts tiff file into postscript. You get a very large file
from this.
ps2pdf - Convert ps file into pdf file. Much smaller than the ps file.
rm - Kill the multi-image tif file, and the ps file, since we are done
with them.

You have to do additional work if the tiff images have
strange settings in their width/height, but I have only seen
one scanned book that had this problem.

These all come standard with RedHat 8.0. Other *nix systems probably
have the same programs available, or can get them. I don't know if they
are available for Windows.
Received on Wed Feb 19 2003 - 10:48:01 GMT