tiff to pdf in bulk

Chris Grau chris at chrisgrau.com
Fri Apr 8 23:43:30 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 19:18 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> I have a substantial amount of scanned tiff files that I would like to 
> do in bulk vs one file at a time. I don't usually do any scripting and
>   would like to know where I would find out how to do this for creating 
> the files all at once.
> 
> Pointing to samples would be fine or man or info pages related to 
> creating file.pdf from file.tif would be helpful.

If you have the libtiff RPM installed (and you probably do), you could
whip up a quick one-liner (in bash):

for i in *.tif; do tiff2pdf $i > `basename $i .tif`.pdf; done

I don't know what the quality is like.  I just ran a quick test to see
if such a program existed.  Hope that helps.

-chris




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