Re: [SLUG] PDF to TIFF to scale

From: Levi Bard (taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 13 2004 - 11:50:42 EST


On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:02:31 -0500, Mario Lombardo
<mario@alienscience.com> wrote:
> I'm doing the following conversions to achieve a PDF --> TIFF to scale. It's
> with 24x36" paper. The final image must be to scale.
>
> pdftoppm -mono /the/pdf/document.pdf /the/resultant/PBMdocument.pbm
> mogrify -format tiff -compress Group4 PBMdocument.pbm
>
> The final TIFF image ends up 150% bigger. It actually occurs with pdftoppm.
> I have no idea why. Has anybody tried this?

Is tiff one of those formats that has the print resolution embedded in
it? If not, try adjusting the image resolution with mogrify.

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