<OT> Converting tiff to ps: A question of quality

[Joel Hammer]

This tiff file came originally from a screen capture with xv.
I made the conversion with convert sample.tiff sample.ps.
I can't find any options on convert.
I have done the following:
Used gimp to save the file as ps. Still bad quality when viewed with gv.
Used xv to print the file in ps format to a file.
When this file was viewed with gv, still bad. BUT, when this same file was
viewed with xv, it looked very nice. 
And, when I used gv to print out the file, it looked fine on the printout.
SO, the converted tiff file only looks bad when viewed with gv or gimp. It
prints fine with gv and looks fine in xv.
AND, when converted to pdf (ps2pdf) and viewed in acroread, it looks a lot
better than with gv but not quite as good as xv.
SO, this raises the issue of resolution in gv. I tried the fix of editing
Xresources as suggested in man gs, but that didn't do any thing. This
must be a setting somewhere in ghostview regarding X11 resolution,
but darned if I can figure it out.  Would someone do me the favor of
going to my "web page" (don't laugh)[ http://hammershome.com ] , and downloading the
file  and seeing how it looks on their gv? Any suggestion for increasing
resolution with gv? 
(To get to the directory with the sample files, from the main web page just click on
the lowest picture, the grey one.)

Thanks,
Joel


> Scribbling feverishly on May 06, Joel Hammer managed to emit:
> > I would like to convert some tiff files into ps format.
> > Using convert file.tif file.ps works just fine, except with gv the image
> > looks to be of very poor quality.
> > convert file.tif file.pdf also gives poor quality.
> > Is there a way to get a high quality conversion?
> 
> I've also experienced the same lossiness when going from TIFF to most
> image formats. Perhaps GIMP of some such program gives better results or
> convert can be fed one or more switches to fix the lossiness?
> 
> Kurt
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