Mega TIFFs to PDF

[RTK]

Anyone,

What's the easiest/fastest SW to take a whole lot of TIFFs and convert them to a PDF? It's going to be a manual (somehow/eventually with some added elements...) Front/back cover one PDF. Inside pages (80 pages) -- one PDF. I'm not sure about every single TIFF file, but most seem to be letter size @300 dpi (which is what I will be going for). It's GBs of files.

Thanks.

Risto

[steve.ledger]

Apparently PDF ReDirect will convert mutli-page TIFF to Multi-Page PDF.

Also IrfanView's ImPDF filter is said to work for multi page PDF creation.

[remi]

If you have the time to learn the handling of TeX/LaTeX, then you could create a simple ASCII file with following code:

\begin{document}

\includegraphics{file1.tif}
\newpage{}

\includegraphics{file2.tif}
\newpage{}

\includegraphics{file3.tif}
...
\end{document}

After that the TeX compiler will convert this ASCII file into a PDF file.

There are options available to clip images or resize them.

see also:

• TeX Live - a TeX distribution for Windows/Linux
• The Tex Live Guide (PDF)
• Wikipedia article about LyX, a GUI for TeX/LaTeX

If TeX/LaTeX is to heavy to learn, maybe Scribus could be a help in this case: Scribus saves its files in a readable (and editable) XML format. You could create a short example file with two or three images and then study the resulting XML file and fill in the necessary include commands for the other files with a simple text editor.

Remi

[RTK]

Thanks guys, for the inpput. I will look around, and perhaps give PDF ReDirect a whack when I get a moment. I'll update here if I find something worthwhile.

You weren't ignored. I was just waiting to see if someone else had any other ideas.

Thanks again.

Risto