>>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.
What will happens will depend on the content of the PDF document. PDF is
derived from Postscript, and can contain vector and bitmap elements. If the
content is vector, you can load it into a vector editor (Adobe Illustrator,
Freehand, etc) and scale it to anything you'd like.
If the content was a bitmap, you'll need to change the dpi to, in effect,
change the scale. TIFF stands for 'tagged image file format'. It contains
a number of binary flags that can be set to account for many things. As
such, all tiff files can have their printing resolution set. I suspect (but
have not checked) GIMP can set that for you.
(I killed my PC and just got back online, thus my late reply)
Ken Elliott
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From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Mario Lombardo
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 10:03 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: [SLUG] PDF to TIFF to scale
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?
/mario
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