Tribblix: manual page: tiff2pdf.1

TIFF2PDF(1) 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, 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 -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. 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 copyrighted 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 uncompressing, 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.

-F Cause the tiff to fill the PDF page.

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

-w width
Set width in units.

-l length
Set length in units.

-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 resolution, 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 document name
default.

-s subject
Set document information subject, overrides image image
description default.

-k keywords
Set document information keywords.

-m size
Set memory allocation limit (in MiB). Default is 256MiB. Set
to 0 to disable the limit.

-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,
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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