gs pdf tiff for multiple pages

[C M Reinehr]

On Wed 16 December 2009 03:03:51 pm Vu Pham wrote:
> I use the following command to convert a pdf file to a tiff file:
>
> #gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=tiffg4
> -sOutputFile=/home/vu/test/b.tif  /home/vu/test/b.pdf
>
> This command converts only the first page of the pdf.
>
> I can use %d in the output file to have multiple output files, each for
> one page of the Pdf:
> #gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=tiffg4
> -sOutputFile=/home/vu/test/b%4.tif  /home/vu/test/b.pdf
>
> but I need the output to be one file with multiple pages.
>
> Can I do it with gs ?
>
> Is there any command line tool out there other than gs to do this job ?
>
> Thanks,
> Vu

Vu,

I don't know about gs but tiffcp looks like it will do the job for you:

"tiffcp combines one or more files created according to the Tag Image File 
Format, Revision 6.0 into a single TIFF file."

On Debian systems tiffcp is found in the libtiff-tools package.

HTH!

cmr



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