Looking for help converting TIFF files to PDF
by rnturn from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6NW19)
I used to use a shell script that combined several TIFF files into a combined TIFF file which would then be converted into PDF using "tiff2pdf". This was a single shell script that did the combine and PDF conversion.
Sadly, since last Fall, the TIFF tools don't include "tiff2pdf" as "supported". Doing the configure and make dance with the 4.6.0 version from September '23 tells you that there's nothing to do in the "tools/unsupported" directory where "tiff2pdf" source code resides.
Okular can read TIFFs but that's it. Evince won't even do that. My attempts to compile "tiff2pdf" by itself haven't worked too well. ("gcc -c tiff2pdf.c" results a "libport.h" header error: No such file or directory.)
Is there a utility that can takes a TIFF file and convert it to PDF from the command line?
I've run across several web pages that supposedly allow you to upload a TIFF file and they'll happily convert it to PDF. The trouble is that these are personal documents -- mostly multi-page -- that I've scanned and I'm not at all keen on uploading those to some maybe trustworthy web site where who knows what is being done with them.
Acrobat? Is that even available for Linux any more? It's not showing up in YaST's repository.
Pointers? Hints? Alternate utilities? Any of those welcomed.
Sadly, since last Fall, the TIFF tools don't include "tiff2pdf" as "supported". Doing the configure and make dance with the 4.6.0 version from September '23 tells you that there's nothing to do in the "tools/unsupported" directory where "tiff2pdf" source code resides.
Okular can read TIFFs but that's it. Evince won't even do that. My attempts to compile "tiff2pdf" by itself haven't worked too well. ("gcc -c tiff2pdf.c" results a "libport.h" header error: No such file or directory.)
Is there a utility that can takes a TIFF file and convert it to PDF from the command line?
I've run across several web pages that supposedly allow you to upload a TIFF file and they'll happily convert it to PDF. The trouble is that these are personal documents -- mostly multi-page -- that I've scanned and I'm not at all keen on uploading those to some maybe trustworthy web site where who knows what is being done with them.
Acrobat? Is that even available for Linux any more? It's not showing up in YaST's repository.
Pointers? Hints? Alternate utilities? Any of those welcomed.