tiff to pdf
[email protected] (Mitja Slenc) Thu, 15 Jun 2000 17:32:41 +0200
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------_=_NextPart_001_01BFD6DE.F1DDD3D6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Hi! on PDFLib's site, the Features page claims TIF support, but I couldn't find a function in PHP that would work with TIFs. Is it just missing documentation or is it really not implemented? Anyway, my problem is this: Our company has a bunch of large (300dpi) G3/G4-compressed TIFF scans (of A4 and A3 sheets) on a server. We're expanding the user base for our system and it would be really impractical trying to explain to everybody where to get/how to install/etc a TIFF viewer. Since PDF supports TIFFs, and since it adds very little to the file length (tests showed about 1-2k file-length increase), we've decided to offer these scans in PDF format, since it is much more readily available on users' systems. But, we've not found a tool yet, that would allow this simple conversion. (the file-length test was done using the scanner's library; however, most (like 99.99%) of these documents are no longer available for rescanning). ImageMagick does convert the image, but it uncompresses it, which obviously leads to very large files (about 2MB, instead of ~80k compressed). While manually converting the files (using Acrobat and printing stuff file by file) works much better, there are about 300,000 of these images, so it's not really practical. We also wish to do the conversion on the fly, since we don't wish to double our disk size to store essentially the same data twice. So, if any of you has any ideas on how to approach this problem, I would most certainly appreciate it. thanks, Mitja ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFD6DE.F1DDD3D6 Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2920.0" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=719551715-15062000>Hi!</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=719551715-15062000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=719551715-15062000>on PDFLib's site, the Features page claims TIF support, but I couldn't find a function in PHP that would work with TIFs. Is it just missing documentation or is it really not implemented?</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=719551715-15062000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=719551715-15062000>Anyway, my problem is this:</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=719551715-15062000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=719551715-15062000>Our company has a bunch of large (300dpi) G3/G4-compressed TIFF scans (of A4 and A3 sheets) on a server. We're expanding the user base for our system and it would be really impractical trying to explain to everybody where to get/how to install/etc a TIFF viewer. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=719551715-15062000>Since PDF supports TIFFs, and since it adds very little to the file length (tests showed about 1-2k file-length increase), we've decided to offer these scans in PDF format, since it is much more readily available on users' systems. But, we've not found a tool yet, that would allow this simple conversion. (the file-length test was done using the scanner's library; however, most (like 99.99%) of these documents are no longer available for rescanning).</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=719551715-15062000>ImageMagick does convert the image, but it uncompresses it, which obviously leads to very large files (about 2MB, instead of ~80k compressed).</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=719551715-15062000>While manually converting the files (using Acrobat and printing stuff file by file) works much better, there are about 300,000 of these images, so it's not really practical. We also wish to do the conversion on the fly, since we don't wish to double our disk size to store essentially the same data twice.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=719551715-15062000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=719551715-15062000>So, if any of you has any ideas on how to approach this problem, I would most certainly appreciate it.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=719551715-15062000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=719551715-15062000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=719551715-15062000>thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=719551715-15062000>Mitja</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFD6DE.F1DDD3D6--