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> Does anyone have a work-around or indirect method that might achieve an
> accurate .PDF-to-TIFF conversion??

Aladdin Ghostscript can, here's an example:
$ gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=tiff24nc -sOutputFile=a.tif b.pdf -c quit
If it can't handle your PDF, try printing to a PostScript file first
and use Ghostscript to rasterize that.

ImageMagick 3.7.7+ should also work:
$ convert b.pdf b.tif

Doug Vander Wilt
Honeywell MICRO SWITCH Division
dwvander@micro.honeywell.com
