Disk Drive Documents - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

10 Jun 1999

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 Scott Ware wrote:
...
  CCITT G4 TIFF is itself a reasonable format for
storing scanned
 documentation.  The PDP-8 manuals available from Kevin McQuiggin's site in
 G4 TIFF format are surprisingly small for good quality 300 dpi monochrome
 documents.  Unfortunately, XV, Gimp, and ImageMagick display do not
 include support for multipage G4 TIFF files.  The ImageMagick 'convert'
 command line utility can be used to convert G4 TIFF files into (much
 larger) PostScript files for viewing and printing, and both Paint Shop Pro
 (under Windows) and Graphic Converter (on the Mac) supposedly have G4 TIFF
 support. 
If you get hold of the free libtiff distribution (which BTW, I believe XV, Gimp
& ImageMagick use for their TIFF support), compile the tiffsplit program. This
takes a multi-page TIFF file, and outputs a single TIFF file for each page.

Tiffsplit works fine, and even I managed to compile it, which is saying
something.

For Windows 95/98/NT users, the Imaging program supplied with the operating
system understands multi-page TIFF.

(The libtiff package is/used to be at ftp.sgi.com)

-- Mark