> Here is a free solution for us *ix users, that I used to scan the "KA680
> CPU Module Technical Manual EK-KA680-TM-001":
> Scan the doc to individual TIFFs. (300 dpi, B/W) I did this with
> Impressario on my SGI Indogo2 with a HP ScanJet 4c + ADF.
> Use the tools from libtiff (http://www.libtiff.org) and Ghostscript to
> convert them:
> tiffcp -c g4 *.tiff all.tiff
> tiff2ps -a all.tiff all.ps
> ps2pdf all.ps all.pdf
> rm all.tiff all.ps
> The G4 compression is better then bzip2 for this type of data. It
> compressed 560 TIFFs with 1 MB each to a single 20 MB PDF. A tar.bz2 was
> about 30 MB.
Yes but.... changing the multipage tiffs to single page tiffs is very
work-intensive... some of the manuals on the mancoon site have hundreds of
(I think one I was looking at was 600) pages. I needed something that worked
with multipage tiffs. I found it much easier to just click "print".
Jay West
Received on Wed Feb 19 2003 - 13:17:00 GMT