TIFF/PDF To Postscript Converter for Linux? 19
Munbuns writes: "Just a quick question for everyone out there. Does anyone know of an easy to use TIFF/PDF to Postscript converter for Linux? I'm working on a project at my University in which I need some sort of program to convert at the least PDF files to Postscript, but TIFF conversion would be a plus as well. Any help would be appreciated." If there's not, this is a tool that thousands of people would like to see.
pdf2ps (Score:1)
http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~laird/PDF/pdf2ps is a web site that will do the first for you.
Ghostscript also comes with useful software.
PDF to PS? (Score:1)
Do Your Research Before Asking The Question (Score:2)
[Free beer] Acrobat Reader for Linux/Solaris will convert PDF to PS level 2 or 3.
xpdf (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/) will convert PDF to PS.
This is just off the top of my head.
tCS/BB
Re:Adobe Acrobat for Linux will convert PDF files (Score:1)
Does too!!!
It just requires a small patch and you're all set.
This is at least what I did 2-3 years ago when I received an encrypted pdf file.
This [ozemail.com.au] is a link to the site where I got my patch.
GIMP for TIFF - PS (Score:1)
The GIMP [gimp.org] can load TIFFs (though for Debian, grab 'gimp-nonfree'); it can also export to PostScript, so TIFF->PS is there.
David.
Re:GIMP for TIFF - PS (Score:1)
Oh, well. No-one mentioned the GIMP.
David.
Did you even try to find a solution? (Score:3)
Don't forget convert (Score:1)
With it, you can convert almost any graphics/text format to almost any other format. Sometimes, it does the conversion by outsourcing to another program (such as ghostview), but most are handled internally. The results are generally pretty good.
Syntax would be: convert blah.tiff blah.ps (change the extensions if you want different conversions)
ImageMagick RPM's are usually included in a base RedHat install; it shouldn't be too hard to get a deb or tarball package.
Russ %-)
Careful with ghostscript! (Score:1)
Re:WordPerfect? (Score:2)
Technically yes.. but if you ever want to convert it to something else, not really..
I tried doing this a few times to make Hylafax cover pages (all of our existing coversheets are in WP or MSWord format).. after 'printing', there was no text (as in _no_ text) in the ps document it generated.. all of the text got converted to line commands..
Thus printing to a file will work, but only if you never need to do anything with the file but print it..
pdf2ps (Score:5)
Ghostscript includes pdf2ps. libtiff provides tiff2ps and fax2ps. Both are shipped as part of Red Hat, RPMs available in the usual places.
Tom Swiss | the infamous tms | http://www.infamous.net/
Adobe Acrobat for Linux will convert PDF files ... (Score:2)
It can even do it programmatically -- no clicking required.
it's that simple.And ghostscript can do it too, but it can't handle the encrypted (yuk!) PDF files. As for tiff files, that's already been answered.
Printing to file (was:WordPerfect?) (Score:1)
Re:Do Your Research Before Asking The Question (Score:1)
PDF/TIFF to PS in windows (Score:1)
Install a postscript printer driver
and print to a file.
WordPerfect? (Score:1)
image magick (Score:1)
Finally, you could find all of this quickly with google [google.com].
Why? Any decent PostScript will take PDF (Score:1)
Are you looking for dead tree output, or you just want inscrutable PS files?
Ghostscript for PDF (Score:4)
With recent versions of ghostscript, you can use a line like this to convert myfile.pdf to myfile.ps: