NAME

       tiff2pdf - convert a TIFF image to a PDF document

SYNOPSIS

       tiff2pdf [ options ] input.tiff

DESCRIPTION

       tiff2pdf opens a TIFF image and writes a PDF document to standard output.

       The  program  converts  one TIFF file to one PDF file, including multiple page TIFF files,
       tiled TIFF files, black and white. grayscale, and color TIFF files that  contain  data  of
       TIFF  photometric  interpretations of bilevel, grayscale, RGB, YCbCr, CMYK separation, and
       ICC L*a*b* as supported by libtiff and PDF.

       If you have multiple TIFF files to convert into one PDF file  then  use  tiffcp  or  other
       program  to  concatenate the files into a multiple page TIFF file.  If the input TIFF file
       is of huge dimensions (greater than 10000 pixels height or width) convert the input  image
       to a tiled TIFF if it is not already.

       The  standard  output is standard output.  Set the output file name with the -o output.pdf
       option.

       All black and white files are compressed into a single strip CCITT G4 Fax compressed  PDF,
       unless  tiled,  where  tiled black and white images are compressed into tiled CCITT G4 Fax
       compressed PDF, libtiff CCITT support is assumed.

       Color and grayscale data can be compressed using either JPEG compression, ITU-T  T.81,  or
       Zip/Deflate  LZ77 compression.  Set the compression type using the -j or -z options.  JPEG
       compression support requires that libtiff be configured with JPEG support, and Zip/Deflate
       compression  support  requires that libtiff be configured with Zip support, in tiffconf.h.
       Use only one or the other of -j and -z.

       If the input TIFF contains single strip CCITT G4 Fax compressed information, then that  is
       written  to  the PDF file without transcoding, unless the options of no compression and no
       passthrough are set, -d and -n.

       If the input TIFF contains JPEG or single strip Zip/Deflate  compressed  information,  and
       they  are configured, then that is written to the PDF file without transcoding, unless the
       options of no compression and no passthrough are set.

       The default page size upon which the TIFF image is placed is determined by the  resolution
       and  extent  of  the  image data.  Default values for the TIFF image resolution can be set
       using the -x and -y options.  The page size can be set using the -p option for paper size,
       or  -w  and -l for paper width and length, then each page of the TIFF image is centered on
       its page.  The distance unit for default resolution and page width and length can  be  set
       by the -u option, the default unit is inch.

       Various  items  of the output document information can be set with the -e, -c, -a, -t, -s,
       and -k options.  Setting the argument of the option  to  ""  for  these  tags  causes  the
       relevant  document  information field to be not written.  Some of the document information
       values otherwise get their information from the input TIFF image,  the  software,  author,
       document name, and image description.

       The  Portable  Document  Format  (PDF)  specification  is  copyrighted  by  Adobe Systems,
       Incorporated.

OPTIONS

       -o output-file
              Set the output to go to file.  output-file

       -j     Compress with JPEG (requires libjpeg configured with libtiff).

       -z     Compress with Zip/Deflate (requires zlib configured with libtiff).

       -q quality
              Set the compression quality, 1-100 for JPEG.

       -n     Do not allow data  to  be  converted  without  uncompressing,  no  compressed  data
              passthrough.

       -b     Set PDF ``Interpolate'' user preference.

       -d     Do not compress (decompress).

       -i     Invert colors.

       -p paper-size
              Set paper size, e.g., letter, legal, A4.

       -F     Cause the tiff to fill the PDF page.

       -u [i|m]
              Set distance unit, i for inch, m for centimeter.

       -w width
              Set width in units.

       -l length
              Set length in units.

       -x xres
              Set x/width resolution default.

       -y yres
              Set y/length resolution default.

       -r [d|o]
              Set  d  for  resolution  default  for  images  without resolution, o for resolution
              override for all images.

       -f     Set PDF ``Fit Window'' user preference.

       -e YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
              Set document information  date,  overrides  image  or  current  date/time  default,
              YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.

       -c creator
              Set document information creator, overrides image software default.

       -a author
              Set document information author, overrides image artist default.

       -t title
              Set document information title, overrides image document name default.

       -s subject
              Set document information subject, overrides image image description default.

       -k keywords
              Set document information keywords.

       -m size
              Set  memory  allocation  limit (in MiB). Default is 256MiB. Set to 0 to disable the
              limit.

       -h     List usage reminder to stderr and exit.

EXAMPLES

       The following example would generate the file output.pdf from input.tiff.
              tiff2pdf -o output.pdf input.tiff

       The following example would generate PDF output from input.tiff and write it  to  standard
       output.
              tiff2pdf input.tiff

       The  following  example  would  generate  the file output.pdf from input.tiff, putting the
       image pages on a letter sized page, compressing the output with JPEG,  with  JPEG  quality
       75, setting the title to ``Document'', and setting the ``Fit Window'' option.
              tiff2pdf -p letter -j -q 75 -t "Document" -f -o output.pdf input.tiff

BUGS

       Please report bugs via the web interface at

              http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=libtiff

SEE ALSO

       libtiff(3), tiffcp(1), tiff2ps(1)

       Libtiff library home page: http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/