19 Feb
2003
19 Feb
'03
2:48 a.m.
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.