TIFF2PDF(1)                                                        TIFF2PDF(1)



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.
              tiff2pdf input.tiff

       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/



libtiff                         April 20, 2006                     TIFF2PDF(1)
