10 May
2011
10 May
'11
11:21 a.m.
Among the items from the William Mayberry estate, I've scanned
four notebooks into a series of TIFF files. Bill kept
engineering notebooks to carefully document his thoughts
in designing the Terak, as well as meeting notes with other
principals. I'll make these available when I'm finished.
Each page filename is 000.TIF, 001.TIF, etc. What's the best tool
for converting these to a sensible PDF? LibTiff tiffcp to multipage,
then tiff2pdf? I have Windows, Mac and Linux.
- John
10 May
10 May
11:44 a.m.
On 10/05/11 19:21, John Foust wrote:
Each page filename is 000.TIF, 001.TIF, etc.
What's the best tool
for converting these to a sensible PDF? LibTiff tiffcp to multipage,
then tiff2pdf? I have Windows, Mac and Linux.
Use Imagemagick's convert tool to compress the images with TIFF Group 4
FAX compression if the images are black and white, or one of the
lossless compression formats (LZW or ZIP/Deflate) if they're greyscale.
Or even easier, save the greyscale images as PNG files, and only save
the B&W ones as TIFFs...
Then use Tumble to convert to PDF. This is a command-line app which runs
under Linux (and should work on OSX too; I had a working Windows port at
one point but haven't updated it in years) and takes a directory full of
TIFFs and converts them into a PDF. My branch
(http://hg.philpem.me.uk/tumble/) adds PNG and JPEG2000 support and a
bunch of bug fixes (including the black/white inversion glitch).
Building is as simple as grabbing the tarball, then running 'make'.
You'll need the following libraries and their development headers installed:
libtiff
libjpeg
netpbm (or whatever provides pbm.h)
.. And a working C compiler :)
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/
3:04 p.m.
On 5/10/11 11:44 AM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
Then use Tumble to convert to PDF. This is a
command-line app which runs under Linux (and should work on OSX too
There was a bug with the program on big-endian machines. Don't know if that was ever
fixed.
I ended up just running it on a Linux box. This is what I use to create the PDFs on
bitsavers.
4:47 p.m.
There was a bug with the program on big-endian
machines. Don't know if
that was ever fixed.
Doesn't look like it:
http://tumble.brouhaha.com/
which is a shame, the tool sounds useful. I might try fixing that myself
on Mac OS X PPC.
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4:58 p.m.
On 11/05/11 00:47, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
If you want to CC the patch to me, I'll make sure it goes into my
branch/fork/whatever you want to call it.
Does anyone know what the symptoms of the bug are? I've got a couple of
ARM boards here I could probably test with, though I have no idea if
they're configured for BE or LE...
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/
There was a
bug with the program on big-endian machines. Don't know if
that was ever fixed.
Doesn't look like it:
http://tumble.brouhaha.com/
which is a shame, the tool sounds useful. I might try fixing that myself
on Mac OS X PPC.
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