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| 27 | .TH TIFF2PDF 1 "November 2, 2005" "libtiff" |
| 28 | .SH NAME |
| 29 | tiff2pdf - convert a TIFF image to a PDF document |
| 30 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 31 | .B tiff2pdf [ |
| 32 | .I options |
| 33 | .B ] |
| 34 | .I input.tiff |
| 35 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 36 | .B tiff2pdf |
| 37 | opens a TIFF image and writes a PDF document to standard output. |
| 38 | .PP |
| 39 | The program converts one TIFF file to one PDF file, including multiple page |
| 40 | TIFF files, tiled TIFF files, black and white. grayscale, and color TIFF |
| 41 | files that contain data of TIFF photometric interpretations of bilevel, |
| 42 | grayscale, RGB, YCbCr, CMYK separation, and ICC L*a*b* as supported by |
| 43 | .I libtiff |
| 44 | and PDF. |
| 45 | .PP |
| 46 | If you have multiple TIFF files to convert into one PDF file then use |
| 47 | .I tiffcp |
| 48 | or other program to concatenate the files into a multiple page TIFF file. |
| 49 | If the input TIFF file is of huge dimensions (greater than 10000 pixels height |
| 50 | or width) convert the input image to a tiled TIFF if it is not already. |
| 51 | .PP |
| 52 | The standard output is standard output. Set the output file name with the |
| 53 | .BI -o output.pdf |
| 54 | option. |
| 55 | .PP |
| 56 | All black and white files are compressed into a single strip CCITT G4 Fax |
| 57 | compressed PDF, unless tiled, where tiled black and white images are |
| 58 | compressed into tiled CCITT G4 Fax compressed PDF, |
| 59 | .I libtiff |
| 60 | CCITT support is assumed. |
| 61 | .PP |
| 62 | Color and grayscale data can be compressed using either JPEG compression, |
| 63 | ITU-T T.81, or Zip/Deflate LZ77 compression. Set the compression type using |
| 64 | the |
| 65 | .B \-j |
| 66 | or |
| 67 | .B \-z |
| 68 | options. JPEG compression support |
| 69 | requires that |
| 70 | .I libtiff |
| 71 | be configured with JPEG support, and Zip/Deflate compression support requires |
| 72 | that |
| 73 | .I libtiff |
| 74 | be configured with Zip support, in tiffconf.h. Use only one or the other of |
| 75 | .B \-j |
| 76 | and |
| 77 | .B \-z. |
| 78 | .PP |
| 79 | If the input TIFF contains single strip CCITT G4 Fax compressed information, |
| 80 | then that is written to the PDF file without transcoding, unless the options |
| 81 | of no compression and no passthrough are set, |
| 82 | .B \-d |
| 83 | and |
| 84 | .B \-n. |
| 85 | .PP |
| 86 | If the input TIFF contains JPEG or single strip Zip/Deflate compressed |
| 87 | information, and they are configured, then that is written to the PDF file |
| 88 | without transcoding, unless the options of no compression and no passthrough |
| 89 | are set. |
| 90 | .PP |
| 91 | The default page size upon which the TIFF image is placed is determined by |
| 92 | the resolution and extent of the image data. Default values for the TIFF |
| 93 | image resolution can be set using the |
| 94 | .B \-x |
| 95 | and |
| 96 | .B \-y |
| 97 | options. The page size can be set using the |
| 98 | .B \-p |
| 99 | option for paper size, or |
| 100 | .B \-w |
| 101 | and |
| 102 | .B \-l |
| 103 | for paper width and length, then each page of the TIFF image is centered on |
| 104 | its page. The distance unit for default resolution and page width and |
| 105 | length can be set by the |
| 106 | .B \-u |
| 107 | option, the default unit is inch. |
| 108 | .PP |
| 109 | Various items of the output document information can be set with the |
| 110 | .B \-e, |
| 111 | .B \-c, |
| 112 | .B \-a, |
| 113 | .B \-t, |
| 114 | .B \-s, |
| 115 | and |
| 116 | .B \-k |
| 117 | options. Setting the argument of the option to "" for these |
| 118 | tags causes the relevant document information field to be not written. Some |
| 119 | of the document information values otherwise get their information from the |
| 120 | input TIFF image, the software, author, document name, and image description. |
| 121 | .PP |
| 122 | The Portable Document Format (PDF) specification is copyrighted by Adobe |
| 123 | Systems, Incorporated. |
| 124 | .SH OPTIONS |
| 125 | .TP |
| 126 | .BI \-o output-file |
| 127 | Set the output to go to file |
| 128 | .I output-file |
| 129 | .TP |
| 130 | .B \-j |
| 131 | Compress with JPEG (requires libjpeg configured with libtiff). |
| 132 | .TP |
| 133 | .B \-z |
| 134 | Compress with Zip/Deflate (requires zlib configured with libtiff). |
| 135 | .TP |
| 136 | .BI \-q quality |
| 137 | Set the compression quality, 1-100 for JPEG. |
| 138 | .TP |
| 139 | .B \-n |
| 140 | Do not allow data to be converted without uncompressing, no compressed |
| 141 | data passthrough. |
| 142 | .TP |
| 143 | .BI \-b |
| 144 | Set PDF "Interpolate" user preference. |
| 145 | .TP |
| 146 | .B \-d |
| 147 | Do not compress (decompress). |
| 148 | .TP |
| 149 | .B \-i |
| 150 | Invert colors. |
| 151 | .TP |
| 152 | .BI \-p paper-size |
| 153 | Set paper size, eg "letter", "legal", "A4". |
| 154 | .TP |
| 155 | .BI \-u [i|m] |
| 156 | Set distance unit, |
| 157 | .I i |
| 158 | for inch, |
| 159 | .I m |
| 160 | for centimeter. |
| 161 | .TP |
| 162 | .BI \-w width |
| 163 | Set width in units. |
| 164 | .TP |
| 165 | .BI \-l length |
| 166 | Set length in units. |
| 167 | .TP |
| 168 | .BI \-x xres |
| 169 | Set x/width resolution default. |
| 170 | .TP |
| 171 | .BI \-y yres |
| 172 | Set y/length resolution default. |
| 173 | .TP |
| 174 | .BI \-r [d|o] |
| 175 | Set |
| 176 | .I d |
| 177 | for resolution default for images without resolution, |
| 178 | .I o for resolution override for all images. |
| 179 | .TP |
| 180 | .BI \-f |
| 181 | Set PDF "Fit Window" user preference. |
| 182 | .TP |
| 183 | .BI \-e YYYYMMDDHHMMSS |
| 184 | Set document information date, overrides image or current date/time default, |
| 185 | .I YYYYMMDDHHMMSS. |
| 186 | .TP |
| 187 | .BI \-c creator |
| 188 | Set document information creator, overrides image software default. |
| 189 | .TP |
| 190 | .BI \-a author |
| 191 | Set document information author, overrides image artist default |
| 192 | .TP |
| 193 | .BI \-t title |
| 194 | Set document information title, overrides image document name default |
| 195 | .TP |
| 196 | .BI \-s subject |
| 197 | Set document information subject, overrides image image description default |
| 198 | .TP |
| 199 | .BI \-k keywords |
| 200 | Set document information keywords. |
| 201 | .TP |
| 202 | .B \-h |
| 203 | List usage reminder to stderr and exit. |
| 204 | .TP |
| 205 | .SH EXAMPLES |
| 206 | .TP |
| 207 | The following example would generate the file output.pdf from input.tiff. |
| 208 | .PP |
| 209 | .RS |
| 210 | .NF |
| 211 | tiff2pdf -o output.pdf input.tiff |
| 212 | .FI |
| 213 | .RE |
| 214 | .PP |
| 215 | The following example would generate PDF output from input.tiff and write it |
| 216 | to standard output. |
| 217 | .PP |
| 218 | .RS |
| 219 | .NF |
| 220 | tiff2pdf input.tiff |
| 221 | .FI |
| 222 | .RE |
| 223 | .PP |
| 224 | The following example would generate the file output.pdf from input.tiff, |
| 225 | putting the image pages on a letter sized page, compressing the output |
| 226 | with JPEG, with JPEG quality 75, setting the title to "Document", and setting |
| 227 | the "Fit Window" option. |
| 228 | .PP |
| 229 | .RS |
| 230 | .NF |
| 231 | tiff2pdf -p letter -j -q 75 -t "Document" -f -o output.pdf input.tiff |
| 232 | .FI |
| 233 | .RE |
| 234 | .SH BUGS |
| 235 | Please report bugs via the web interface at |
| 236 | .IP |
| 237 | \%http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=libtiff |
| 238 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 239 | .BR libtiff (3) , |
| 240 | .BR tiffcp (1) , |
| 241 | .BR tiff2ps (1) |
| 242 | .PP |
| 243 | Libtiff library home page: |
| 244 | .BR http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/ |