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NAME
tiff2pdf - convert a TIFF image to a PDF document
SYNOPSIS
tiff2pdf [ options ] input.tiff
DESCRIPTION
tiff2pdf opens a TIFF image and writes a PDF document to standard out-
put.
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 -ooutput.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 compres-
sion, ITU-T T.81, or Zip/Deflate LZ77 compression. Set the compres-
sion 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 sup-
port, in tiffconf.h. Use only one or the other of -j and -z.
If the input TIFF contains single strip CCITT G4 Fax compressed infor-
mation, 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 deter-
mined 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 oth-
erwise 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
-ooutput-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).
-qquality
Set the compression quality, 1-100 for JPEG.
-n Do not allow data to be converted without uncompressing, no
compressed data passthrough.
-d Do not compress (decompress).
-i Invert colors.
-ppaper-size
Set paper size, eg "letter", "legal", "A4".
-u[i|m]
Set distance unit, i for inch, m for centimeter.
-wwidth
Set width in units.
-llength
Set length in units.
-xxres Set x/width resolution default.
-yyres 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
-eYYYYMMDDHHMMSS
Set document information date, overrides image or current
date/time default, YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.
-ccreator
Set document information creator, overrides image software
default.
-aauthor
Set document information author, overrides image artist default
-ttitle
Set document information title, overrides image document name
default
-ssubject
Set document information subject, overrides image image
description default
-kkeywords
Set document information keywords.
-h List usage reminder to stderr and exit.
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, compress-
ing 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
BUGS
Please report bugs via the web interface at
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=libtiff
SEE ALSO
libtiff(3), tiffcp(1), tiff2ps(1)
tiff2pdf NOVEMBER 2003 TIFF2PDF(1)
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