10/26/2011 ~ 1 min read

Ghostscript

> I was just wondering if anyone had written a program to go from a pdf > file to a tif file or similar conversion This can be done with ImageMagick (convert a.pdf a.tif) or Aladdin Ghostscript. Here are examples for converting in both directions using Ghostscript: (use Aladdin Ghostscript version 5.02 or newer with PDF) pdf2tiff$ gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=a.tif a.pdf -c quit tiff2pdf$ tiff2ps -2 a.tif | gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=a.pdf - -c quit

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