13 Jul
2003
13 Jul
'03
10:01 p.m.
Robert Krten wrote:
Any volunteers? Suggestions for *free* software than
runs on FreeBSD or, worst
case, Windoze?
I can do that. Framemaker w/Acrobat imports images and prints to PDF
quite nicely.
The PDFs won't be searchable, though....
Or, if you want to do it yourself, it's fairly simple in Unix. You
need tifftopnm, pnmtops, and ps2pdf. I don't know of a way to bypass
the postscript step.
In bash (I don't do csh, sorry):
$ ls *.tiff
1.tiff
2.tiff
3.tiff
$i=1
$ for t in *.tiff
do
tifftopnm $t > foo.pnm
pnmtops foo.pnm > ${i}.ps
i=`expr $i \+ 1`
done
$ cat *.ps >> big.ps
$ ps2pdf big.ps
The only thing you have to watch is orientation - pnmtops will rotate
a landscape image to fit a portrait page.