Re: [SLUG] converting tiff to pdf

[Scott Ragen <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

slug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 09/11/2007 11:18:26 AM:

> I've tried imagemagick but i'm getting faulty pdf's in the output:
> 
>         $ convert test.tif test.pdf
> 
> The message from adobe reader is "drawing error". Some documents convert
> OK, but some don't. Other programs simply hang when opening - eg,
> document viewer and pdf viewer.
> 
> Can anyone suggest another command line method of conversion? The files
> I'm dealing with right now are tif output from hylafax. 
> 

I haven't used it, but there is a utility called tiff2pdf.
It is in the package libtiff-tools on Debian - not sure what it would be 
on other distros.

Regards,

Scott