TIFF to PDF (slightly OT, but for a good cause :-))

From: Jim Battle <frustum_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Sun Jul 13 20:16:01 2003

Robert Krten wrote:
> I have the chance to pay some money and get my 17x22" PDP-8/I schematics
> scanned, but they only offer TIFF output. These will be scanned in 400 DPI
> mode and put on the web. These are a newer revision than the ones posted
> on the web.
>
> What I'd *really* like to do is convert them from TIFF to PDF and bind them
> into multi-page PDFs instead of the one-per-page TIFF files that I'll get
> from the scanning house.
>
> Any volunteers? Suggestions for *free* software than runs on FreeBSD or, worst
> case, Windoze?

I use c42pdf on a PC. It is free. It is fast. It doesn't actually
touch the image -- it just puts a PDF wrapper around it. However, it
only works for bitonal images (1bpp).

Do a google search on "c42pdf" and you'll find a number of hits.

Go here to get binaries for a number of architectures:

http://c42pdf.ffii.org/

I also know that some months back Eric Smith of this list was working on
something much more flexible than c42pdf, but I don't know where it
stands. You can check for yourself:

http://tumble.brouhaha.com/
Received on Sun Jul 13 2003 - 20:16:01 BST

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