On 4/5/07, Bruce Marshall wrote:

On Thursday 05 April 2007 17:29, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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All,

Is there a tool for converting PDFs to TIFFs?

Command Line preferred, but not required if I can do a directories worth at a time.

I was thinking of something like ghostscript, but I don't know if it can produce TIFFs.

convert will convert almost anything.......

convert

Thanks to all 3 responses, but I'm still having a few issues. I've found "convert +adjoin -monochrome ActiveRbacManual.pdf ActiveRbacManual.tiff" creates single page B&W TIFFs. Issue 1: I want greyscale, and I think the above is truly black & white. Is there a way to get greyscale? Issue 2: the resolution (DPI) is only 75x75. Unacceptably low, but when I try adding "-density 300x300" I get: ===

convert -density 300x300 +adjoin ActiveRbacManual.pdf ActiveRbacManual.tiff ERROR: /ioerror in --.outputpage-- Operand stack: 1 true Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 14 1 43 --nostringval-- %for_pos_int_continue --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 0 9 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1142/3371(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:107/200(L)-- --dict:107/200(L)-- --dict:104/127(ro)(G)-- --dict:241/347(ro)(G)-- --dict:20/24(L)-- --dict:4/6(L)-- --dict:23/31(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: 28 ESP Ghostscript 8.15.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 convert: unable to read image data `/tmp/magick-XXDVMJt8'. convert: Postscript delegate failed `ActiveRbacManual.pdf'. convert: missing an image filename `ActiveRbacManual.tiff'. ===

I tried this in a cygwin environment and it works (very slowly), so I guess I need to file a bug report unless someone knows that I'm doing something wrong. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 4/6/07, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Friday 2007-04-06 at 11:32 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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Thanks to all 3 responses, but I'm still having a few issues.

You could also try "The Gimp". I don't remember if it reads pdf directly, but if not, it can read ps, and there is a pdf2ps convertor.

There is also a pdftoppm converter, and a ppm2tiff.

Thanks pdftoppm / ppm2tiff look like a very promising pair of tools. Much faster than convert from what I've seen and very good quality at least on the one pdf I ran as a quick test. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org