Manual Pages for UNIX Operating System command usage for man tiff2pdf

User Commands                                         TIFF2PDF(1)



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 output.

     The program converts one TIFF file to one PDF file,  includ-
     ing  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  lib-
     tiff 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.



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     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  copy-
     righted 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  uncompress-
          ing, 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.

     -u [i|m]
          Set distance unit, i for inch, m for centimeter.

     -w width
          Set width in units.

     -l length
          Set length in units.



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     -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 resolu-
          tion, 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  docu-
          ment 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.

EXAMPLES
input.tiff.
     The following example would generate  the  file  output.pdf  from
          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



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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)

     Libtiff            library            home             page:
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