Re: flexfax: multi-image tiff -> PDF?

[Darrell Berry <darrell@ku24.com>]

i've found a package called tifflib, which generates higher quality, and
much faster-rendering (tho larger) PostScript from TIFFs...its located
at

http://kubax9.kub.nl:2080/Decomate-1.0/tiff-v3.4-tar.gz

and its rather cool (worth a look!)

and GhostView 5.50 has a nice ps2pdf filter...chaining the two together
generates very high quality PDF fax images...

--

the only problem (and one shared with fax2ps), is that partial pages are
'bottom-justified' on the page, which will no doubt look a little odd to
our users, who are used to fax machines 'top-justifying' partiial pages
(ie cover pages etc which take up less than a full A4 image appear at
the top of the page, not the bottom, as they do with both fax2ps and
tiff2ps)...

do you have any clue as to hacking the image or ps output to change
this?

I guess I could use something like ImageMagik while the image is still
in the bitmap realm, test the image size, and crop and paste onto a
full, blank A4 image, but it seems pretty CPU-wasteful!)

thanx for your help! I hope the links above are also of use to other
hylafaxers...

cheers

- darrell

Alan Sparks wrote:
> 
> I can't vouch for this, since I haven't tried it, but I think it might
> work...
> 
> I know of no tiff2pdf convertor (all-in-a-bag), but you might look at
> using fax2ps (included w/ HylaFAX) to convert the TIFF into PS, and
> passing the mess through your GhostScript engine with the PDF output
> generation option.
> 
> I don't know what quality you'll get (or if it'll be usable), but seems
> like a cheap solution worth looking at.  You'll need to do a little
> research on the fax2ps and gs programs to get the right options -- if
> you can't find them, write to me and I'll see if I can find a hint or
> two.
> 
> -Alan
> 
> Darrell Berry wrote:
> >
> > i'm thinking about the best way to distribute incoming faxes, and would
> > much rather they were PDF format (image layer only, i'm not planning
> > ocr!) than TIFF, as we use PDF extensively already, and people are
> > familiar with it...
> >
> > does anyone know if a linux-friendly command line tiff2pdf convertor,
> > which will sensibly make each image in a multi-image TIFF into a
> > separate page in the PDF file?
> >
> > thnx!