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<h1 align=center>TIFF2PDF</h1>
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<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
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<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
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<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
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<a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br>
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<a href="#EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a><br>
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<a href="#BUGS">BUGS</a><br>
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<a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>
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tiff2pdf - convert a TIFF image to a PDF document</td></table>
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<a name="SYNOPSIS"></a>
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<b>tiff2pdf [</b> <i>options</i> <b>]</b>
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<i>input.tiff</i></td></table>
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<a name="DESCRIPTION"></a>
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<b>tiff2pdf</b> opens a TIFF image and writes a PDF document
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to standard output.</td></table>
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The program converts one TIFF file to one PDF file,
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including multiple page TIFF files, tiled TIFF files, black
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and white. grayscale, and color TIFF files that contain data
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of TIFF photometric interpretations of bilevel, grayscale,
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RGB, YCbCr, CMYK separation, and ICC L*a*b* as supported by
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<i>libtiff</i> and PDF.</td></table>
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If you have multiple TIFF files to convert into one PDF file
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then use <i>tiffcp</i> or other program to concatenate the
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files into a multiple page TIFF file. If the input TIFF file
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is of huge dimensions (greater than 10000 pixels height or
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width) convert the input image to a tiled TIFF if it is not
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The standard output is standard output. Set the output file
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name with the <b>-o</b><i>output.pdf</i>
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All black and white files are compressed into a single strip
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CCITT G4 Fax compressed PDF, unless tiled, where tiled black
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and white images are compressed into tiled CCITT G4 Fax
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compressed PDF, <i>libtiff</i> CCITT support is
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Color and grayscale data can be compressed using either JPEG
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compression, ITU-T T.81, or Zip/Deflate LZ77 compression.
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Set the compression type using the <b>-j</b> or <b>-z</b>
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options. JPEG compression support requires that
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<i>libtiff</i> be configured with JPEG support, and
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Zip/Deflate compression support requires that <i>libtiff</i>
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be configured with Zip support, in tiffconf.h. Use only one
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or the other of <b>-j</b> and <b>-z.</b></td></table>
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If the input TIFF contains single strip CCITT G4 Fax
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compressed information, then that is written to the PDF file
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without transcoding, unless the options of no compression
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and no passthrough are set, <b>-d</b> and
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<b>-n.</b></td></table>
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If the input TIFF contains JPEG or single strip Zip/Deflate
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compressed information, and they are configured, then that
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is written to the PDF file without transcoding, unless the
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options of no compression and no passthrough are
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The default page size upon which the TIFF image is placed is
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determined by the resolution and extent of the image data.
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Default values for the TIFF image resolution can be set
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using the <b>-x</b> and <b>-y</b> options. The page size can
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be set using the <b>-p</b> option for paper size, or
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<b>-w</b> and <b>-l</b> for paper width and length, then
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each page of the TIFF image is centered on its page. The
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distance unit for default resolution and page width and
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length can be set by the <b>-u</b> option, the default unit
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is inch.</td></table>
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Various items of the output document information can be set
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with the <b>-e, -c, -a, -t, -s,</b> and <b>-k</b> options.
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Setting the argument of the option to "" for these
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tags causes the relevant document information field to be
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not written. Some of the document information values
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otherwise get their information from the input TIFF image,
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the software, author, document name, and image
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description.</td></table>
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) specification is
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copyrighted by Adobe Systems, Incorporated.</td></table>
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<a name="OPTIONS"></a>
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<b>-o</b><i>output-file</i></td></table>
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Set the output to go to file <i>output-file</i></td></table>
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<b>-j</b></td></table>
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Compress with JPEG (requires libjpeg configured with
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libtiff).</td></table>
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<b>-z</b></td></table>
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Compress with Zip/Deflate (requires zlib configured with
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libtiff).</td></table>
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<b>-q</b><i>quality</i></td></table>
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Set the compression quality, 1-100 for JPEG.</td></table>
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<b>-n</b></td></table>
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Do not allow data to be converted without uncompressing, no
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compressed data passthrough.</td></table>
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<b>-d</b></td></table>
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Do not compress (decompress).</td></table>
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<b>-i</b></td></table>
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Invert colors.</td></table>
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<b>-p</b><i>paper-size</i></td></table>
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Set paper size, eg "letter", "legal",
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<b>-u</b><i>[i|m]</i></td></table>
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Set distance unit, <i>i</i> for inch, <i>m</i> for
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centimeter.</td></table>
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<b>-w</b><i>width</i></td></table>
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<b>-l</b><i>length</i></td></table>
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List usage reminder to stderr and exit.</td></table>
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The following example would generate the file output.pdf
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tiff2pdf -o output.pdf input.tiff</td></table>
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The following example would generate PDF output from
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The following example would generate the file output.pdf
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<b>libtiff</b>(3)<b>, tiffcp</b>(1)<b>,
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