tiff2pdf
convert a TIFF image to a PDF document
see also :
tiffcp - tiff2ps
Synopsis
tiff2pdf
[ options ] input.tiff
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examples
The following example would generate the file output.pdf from
input.tiff.
tiff2pdf -o output.pdf input.tiff
The following example would generate PDF output from input.tiff
and write it to standard output.
tiff2pdf input.tiff
The following example would generate the file output.pdf from
input.tiff, putting the image pages on a letter sized page,
compressing the output with JPEG, with JPEG quality 75, setting
the title to ’’Document’’, and setting the ’’Fit Window’’ option.
tiff2pdf -p letter -j -q 75 -t "Document" -f -o output.pdf
input.tiff
source
tiffcp "$@" out.tif
tiff2pdf -z -o out.pdf out.tif
description
tiff2pdf
opens a TIFF image and writes a PDF document to standard
output.
The program
converts one TIFF file to one PDF file, including multiple
page TIFF files, tiled TIFF files, black and white.
grayscale, and color TIFF files that contain data of TIFF
photometric interpretations of bilevel, grayscale, RGB,
YCbCr, CMYK separation, and ICC L*a*b* as supported by
libtiff and PDF.
If you have
multiple TIFF files to convert into one PDF file then use
tiffcp or other program to concatenate the files into
a multiple page TIFF file. If the input TIFF file is of huge
dimensions (greater than 10000 pixels height or width)
convert the input image to a tiled TIFF if it is not
already.
The standard
output is standard output. Set the output file name with the
-o output.pdf option.
All black and
white files are compressed into a single strip CCITT G4 Fax
compressed PDF, unless tiled, where tiled black and white
images are compressed into tiled CCITT G4 Fax compressed
PDF, libtiff CCITT support is assumed.
Color and
grayscale data can be compressed using either JPEG
compression, ITU-T T.81, or Zip/Deflate LZ77 compression.
Set the compression type using the -j or
-z options. JPEG compression support requires
that libtiff be configured with JPEG support, and
Zip/Deflate compression support requires that libtiff
be configured with Zip support, in tiffconf.h. Use only one
or the other of -j and -z.
If the input
TIFF contains single strip CCITT G4 Fax compressed
information, then that is written to the PDF file without
transcoding, unless the options of no compression and no
passthrough are set, -d and
-n.
If the input
TIFF contains JPEG or single strip Zip/Deflate compressed
information, and they are configured, then that is written
to the PDF file without transcoding, unless the options of
no compression and no passthrough are set.
The default
page size upon which the TIFF image is placed is determined
by the resolution and extent of the image data. Default
values for the TIFF image resolution can be set using the
-x and -y options. The page size
can be set using the -p option for paper size,
or -w and -l for paper width and
length, then each page of the TIFF image is centered on its
page. The distance unit for default resolution and page
width and length can be set by the -u option,
the default unit is inch.
Various items
of the output document information can be set with the
-e, -c, -a,
-t, -s, and -k
options. Setting the argument of the option to ""
for these tags causes the relevant document information
field to be not written. Some of the document information
values otherwise get their information from the input TIFF
image, the software, author, document name, and image
description.
The Portable
Document Format (PDF) specification is copyrighted by Adobe
Systems, Incorporated.
options
-o
output-file
Set the output to go to file.
output-file
-j
Compress with JPEG (requires libjpeg configured
with libtiff).
-z
Compress with Zip/Deflate (requires zlib
configured with libtiff).
-q
quality
Set the compression quality,
1-100 for JPEG.
-n
Do not allow data to be converted without uncompressing,
no compressed data passthrough.
-b
Set PDF ’’Interpolate’’ user
preference.
-d
Do not compress (decompress).
-i
Invert colors.
-p
paper-size
Set paper size, e.g.,
letter, legal, A4.
-F
Cause the tiff to fill the PDF page.
-u
[i|m]
Set distance unit, i for
inch, m for centimeter.
-w
width
Set width in units.
-l
length
Set length in units.
-x xres
Set x/width resolution
default.
-y yres
Set y/length resolution
default.
-r
[d|o]
Set d for resolution
default for images without resolution, o for
resolution override for all images.
-f
Set PDF ’’Fit Window’’ user
preference.
-e
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
Set document information date,
overrides image or current date/time default,
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.
-c
creator
Set document information
creator, overrides image software default.
-a
author
Set document information
author, overrides image artist default.
-t
title
Set document information title,
overrides image document name default.
-s
subject
Set document information
subject, overrides image image description default.
-k
keywords
Set document information
keywords.
-h
List usage reminder to stderr and exit.
bugs
Please report
bugs via the web interface at
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=libtiff
see also
libtiff,
tiffcp , tiff2ps
Libtiff library
home page: http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/