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

From: Gooijen H <GOOI_at_oce.nl>
Date: Mon Jul 14 03:10:01 2003

Get access to an Oc? 3165 with the scan2file option, or
the newer model called DPS100. The machines scan at 52
A4-sized pages per minute at 600 dpi resolution.
A3-sized runs at 23-26 pages/minute AFAIK.
The output can be selected: either (multi-page) TIFF,
or PDF, but the PDF files are *large* because they are
TIFF with a PDF wrapper.
Acrobat would make those big TIFF files a lot smaller in
size, but then with CD-ROMs available, size only matters
if you need to download from the 'Net.

I could scan them to a number of PDF's described above,
but you need to ship the doc to The Netherlands, and pay
for the return shipment, if you want them back. And you do!
I am only interested in PDP-11. If I start collecting -8's,
I will definately run out of space as many of us, fighting
the never-ending battle for more space.

- Henk.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Krten [mailto:root_at_parse.com]
> Sent: donderdag 10 juli 2003 3:00
> To: cctech_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: TIFF to PDF (slightly OT, but for a good cause :-))
>
>
> 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?
>
> Cheers,
> -RK
>
> --
> Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
> Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at
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