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.
- -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.
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
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:
http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/